Fedora Weekly News Issue 135
Fedora Weekly News Issue 135 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 135 for the week ending July 19, 2008. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue Fedora Weekly News keep you updated with the latest issues, events and activities in the fedora community. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one of our community's most important sources of news, and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time. We are still looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora Marketing each week and to summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during each week. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join --- - pascal https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 136
officially released Fedora 9 installation media and include all updates released as of July 18th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via Jigdo starting Sunday, July 20th, 2008." [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg7.html === Feature Process Improvements John Poelstra had some excellent news on the feature front[1]: "I was recently talking with Paul Frields about how to make the feature process more accessible... this combined with feedback in the rpm thread have led to a (hopefully) clearer presentation of how the feature process works." [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-July/msg9.html === FUEL opens up collaborative standardization of localization terms FUEL (Frequently Used Entries for Localization) aims at solving the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in computer software translation across the platform for all Languages. It will try to provide a standardized and consistent look of computer for a language computer users. https://fedorahosted.org/fuel === Planet Fedora In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Max Spevack === Shameless Recruiting Pitch We begin this week's summary of Planet Fedora with a recruitment pitch for Fedora Weekly News beat writers, scribed by Karsten Wade. === Intel's Moblin moves to Fedora The topic that took Planet Fedora by storm on Friday and Saturday was the announcement of Intel's Moblin moving from Ubuntu to Fedora as its base OS. Yaakov Nemoy, John Palmieri, Seth Vidal, and Karsten Wade all weighed in with their thoughts. === Events A number of event reports were posted on Planet Fedora this week. * LUG Radio Live UK, attended by Max Spevack. * Ottawa Linux Symposium (day 1), as reported by Dennis Gilmore. * LTSP Hackfest (day 1), which included hackers from numerous Linux distros, and Fedora's own Warren Togami. * A GUADEC trip report (including pictures) from Dimitris Glezos. * A second place finish in the 2008 RoboCup World Championships, with a report from Tim Niemueller. In other event news: * Sandro "red" Mathys has posted details about the upcoming Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA. * James Morris shared his Ottawa Linux Symposium paper with us, which is a detailed update on SELinux. === Tech Tidbits Transifex 0.3 has been released. "Transifex 0.3 is a major release, including a lot of under-the-hood changes. We’ve added full i18n support, and now in addition to the templates, per-module information stored in the database, such as names and descriptions, can be translated as well," explains project lead Dimitris Glezos. Lorenzo Villani is working on adding the ZYpp stack into Fedora. He explains, "It seems that with the latest releases of sat-solver, libzypp and zypper, the whole stack has become more stable on Fedora, especially, in the past few weeks I wasn’t able to update packages due to various resolver’s problems, but now it seems that 'zypper up' does its job smoothly." Fedora Electronics Lab now has its own mailing list, and there has been lots of discussion about this particular respin on Planet Fedora over the past few days. Red Hat Magazine has a great article about NetworkManager, written by Kyle Gonzales. === Other Interesting Posts Nicu Buculei gave us a detailed look at the first round of themes that have been developed by the Art Team for Fedora 10. David Nalley authored what might be the first in a four part series about Fedora's new "Freedom, Friends, Features, First" marketing focus. This post focuses on the Freedom topic. === Marketing In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco === Linus Torvalds' personal Linux distro? Fedora 9, of course Larry Cafiero reported[1] that the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, currently uses Fedora 9 "on most of his computers" as reported in a recent interview[2]. "I've used different distributions over the years ... Fedora had fairly good support for PowerPC back when I used that, so I grew used to it. But I actually don't care too much about the distribution, as long as it makes it easy to install and keep reasonably up-to-date," Torvalds added. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00150.html [2] http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/linus-torvalds,-geek-of-the-week/ === Asus Eee PC Fedora Respin Valent Turkovic asked[1] if there was interest in working on a Fedora spin for the Eee PC. Clint Savage reported[2] that his kickstart for the Eee is working almost perfectly, and Mathieu Bri
Fedora Weekly News, Issue 139
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 139 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Board IRC Public Meeting + 1.1.2 Fedora Test Day: Encrypted Installs & Plymouth + 1.1.3 ACL Changes and New Package Group Policy + 1.1.4 Important Infrastructure Announcement o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 Tech Tidbits + 1.2.2 Artwork + 1.2.3 Features o 1.3 Developments + 1.3.1 FlashPlayer 10 Symlink Provokes Proprietary Support Argument + 1.3.2 Parallel Install of syslog-ng, rsyslog and sysklogd + 1.3.3 General Outage of Fedora Infrastructure + 1.3.4 Koji from Behind a Firewall + 1.3.5 Small Machine SIG o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Fedora 10 Themes: development and deadlines o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 9 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 8 Security Advisories = Fedora Weekly News Issue 139 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 139 for the week ending August 17, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue139 Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events and activities in the Fedora community. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one of our community's most important sources of news. Ideas for new beats are always welcome -- let us know how you'd like to contribute. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join = Announcements = In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack == Board IRC Public Meeting == Paul Frields reminded us[1] that the Fedora Board's monthly IRC meeting was scheduled for August 12. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg6.html == Fedora Test Day: Encrypted Installs & Plymouth James Laska informed us[1] that the Fedora QA team is organizing a test day specifically for working on encrypted installs and plymouth (the replacement for rhgb). "There will be a cast of testers and developers on hand between 8am - 5pm EDT (12:00 - 21:00 UTC) to help guide testing, answer questions, triage and troubleshoot issues." [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-August/msg5.html == ACL Changes and New Package Group Policy Casey Dahlin wrote[1] about the new Fedora Account System group policy, implemented "to encourage greater openness in the community while containing newer members until they have earned the trust of the community". The full text includes a discussion of the changes that have been made. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg7.html == Important Infrastructure Announcement == Paul Frields announced[1]: "The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in the infrastructure systems. That process may result in service outages, for which we apologize in advance. We're still assessing the end-user impact of the situation, but as a precaution, we recommend you not download or update any additional packages on your Fedora systems." [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg8.html = Planet Fedora = In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Max Spevack == Tech Tidbits Kushal Das announced[1] a new version of the liveusb-creator GUI application. Separate from the livecd-tools and livecd-iso-to-disk application, liveusb-creator is packaged in its own RPM. Kushal writes, "liveusb-creator version 2.7 for Linux is released... Now feel free to create liveusb images for your friends and for the special one." Nigel Jones discussed[2] a variety of wiki improvements that have been deployed. This is a three-round improvement process. Nigel said of the first two rounds "At the request of the documentation team we enabled searching by default on various namespaces, of course, you most likely won't notice it at all. Round 2 of wiki improvements start tomorrow, this is the exciting one. We are trashing the current authentication method IN THE BIN! No more htaccess prompts... What's going in its place? The standard Mediawiki login prompt, it'll still be connected to FAS, it'll just look different." [1] http://kushaldas.in/?p=284 [2] http://nigelj.livejournal.com/8525.html == Artwork == Mairin Duffy gave us a look[1] at some of the proposed Fedora 10 artwork in the "gears" theme, which is a collaboration between her and Nicu Buculei. [1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/60026.html == Features == Two interesting posts abo
Fedora Weekly News #145
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 145 for the week ending September 28, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue145 This week's issue brings plenty of insights into the Fedora 10 theme decisions, as covered by longtime FWN writer, Nicu Buculei. Max Spevak reports on several recent linux events and the Fedora acivity there, as well as relays final Fedora 10 schedule changes and other announcements. Oisin Feeley updates us on Fedora development activity with deactivation of some dormant services and discussion of PackageKit. Jason Taylor highlights the many release notes completed for the upcoming Fedora 10 release. Dale Bewley brings us up to date on activity with four separate discussion lists in Fedora virtualization. Svetoslav Chukov, in the marketing beat, celebrates Fedora's fifth birthday with a wonderful, generous reflection of the project by OpenSUSE's community manager, Joe Brockmeier, and Runa Bhattacharjee covers the freeze activities surrounding translation and internationalization for Fedora 10. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join Contents * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 145 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Schedule updates for Fedora 10 + 1.1.2 Fedora Test Day - 2008-09-25 - Live Beta Images and FirstAidKit o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 Events + 1.2.2 Tech Tidbits o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Happy birthday Fedora! + 1.3.2 Lessons learned from five years of Fedora + 1.3.3 The sweet features of Fedora - Smolt + 1.3.4 Plug and Run Fedora on a Toshiba A300D laptop, Part II o 1.4 Developments + 1.4.1 Default Deactivation of Services + 1.4.2 specspo and PackageKit + 1.4.3 Are Other Distros Controlling Fedora through PackageKit ? + 1.4.4 /sbin and /bin Linked to /usr/lib o 1.5 Documentation + 1.5.1 Release Notes Galore + 1.5.2 Documentation Repository Changes o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 String freeze breakage alarms + 1.6.2 Fedora Docs moved to git repository + 1.6.3 Translation schedule to be further discussed for clarity of tasks o 1.7 Artwork + 1.7.1 The desktop theme for Fedora 10 was chosen + 1.7.2 The fight for the theme + 1.7.3 The theme soap opera + 1.7.4 Lessons from the flamewar + 1.7.5 Echo icon theme and Fedora 10 o 1.8 Security Advisories + 1.8.1 Fedora 9 Security Advisories + 1.8.2 Fedora 8 Security Advisories o 1.9 Virtualization + 1.9.1 Enterprise Management Tools List # 1.9.1.1 Maximum Number of Attached CDROMs in Xen # 1.9.1.2 Parallel Port Support in virt-manager # 1.9.1.3 VMWare VMX Output from virt-convert # 1.9.1.4 Disk Image Signature Verification + 1.9.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.9.2.1 Continued Trouble with 32bit Fedora 9 DomU on Fedora 8 Dom0 + 1.9.3 Libvirt List # 1.9.3.1 Libvirt 0.4.6 Released # 1.9.3.2 RFC: Events API # 1.9.3.3 Windows Binaries + 1.9.4 oVirt Devel List # 1.9.4.1 oVirt 0.93-1 Released # 1.9.4.2 Modeling LVM Storage Fedora Weekly News Issue 145 -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack -- Schedule updates for Fedora 10 -- Jesse Keating announced[0] the schedule changes for Fedora 10, "resulting in a final release date of Tuesday Nov. 25th." [0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00013.html -- Fedora Test Day - 2008-09-25 - Live Beta Images and FirstAidKit James Laska advertised[1] the next Fedora Test Day, which has been a recurring theme during the Fedora 10 cycle. "Testing efforts will focus on testing Fedora 10 Beta Live images as well as system recovery using FirstAidKit."[2] [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-September/msg00016.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2008-09-25 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Max Spevack -- Events -- Several Fedora Ambassadors posted about OpenExpo, in Switzerland. Joerg Simon posted[0] some pictures of the e
Fedora Weekly News #146
-- Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 -- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 for the week ending October 5, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue146 In this issue of FWN, Max Spevack covers the announcement of the beta for Fedora 10 (Cambridge) and reminds us of the upcoming Fedora Board IRC chat. Oisin Feeley provides another detailed look into Fedora development, covering the recent PATH:/sbin discussion, efforts to speed up Modprobe and MAKEDEV, announcement of the Fedora 10 early branch for developers, and more. Jason Taylor writes on documentation, including discussion on changing language codes in Fedora and the beginnings of an ongoing debate on how to properly document examples of system commands. Runa Bhattacharjee, writing for the translation project, provides detail on the Fedora 10 translation dates and summarizes the most recent meeting of the translation team. Huzaifa Sidhpurwala updates us on discussion on the infrastructure list, including metalinks for Fedora 10 downloads. Nicu Buculei covers the release of the second issue of the art team excellent voice, Echo Monthly News, and Paul Frields' recent request for a remix logo, a secondary watermark for derivative spins. David Nalley brings us up-to-date on the latest security advisories for Fedora 8 and 9 issued this past week. Finally, Dale Bewley gets us current with the many happenings on the four virtualization lists he covers -- the Enterprise Management Tools, Fedora Xen, library virtualization and oVirt development lists. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco Oisin Feeley Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join --- * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Beta + 1.1.2 Fedora Board IRC Meeting o 1.2 Developments + 1.2.1 PATH:/sbin Tab Confusion + 1.2.2 Speeding-up Modprobe and MAKEDEV + 1.2.3 Uniform Proxy Settings + 1.2.4 Fedora 10 Early Branch Now Available + 1.2.5 SELinux - Copying ISO Files o 1.3 Documentation + 1.3.1 New Language Codes + 1.3.2 Command Examples Documentation o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 F10 Translation deadline revised to 21st October 2008 + 1.4.2 Fedora Translation Project meeting held o 1.5 Infrastructure + 1.5.1 func logrotate fix + 1.5.2 metalinks for F10 download pages + 1.5.3 smtp-server? o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 The latest news about Echo icons + 1.6.2 Remix logo o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 9 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 8 Security Advisories o 1.8 Virtualization + 1.8.1 Enterprise Management Tools List # 1.8.1.1 virt-manager Adds Disk and Network I/O Graphs # 1.8.1.2 virt-manager Supports Multiple Serial Consoles # 1.8.1.3 Maintaining VM State While Restarting libvirtd Needed + 1.8.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.8.2.1 No Dom0 Support in Fedora 10 + 1.8.3 Libvirt List # 1.8.3.1 Running Xen Guests Without xend # 1.8.3.2 cgroups API and LXC Driver Support # 1.8.3.3 libvirtd Multi-threaded Support in the Works # 1.8.3.4 Host Device Enumeration API # 1.8.3.5 SDL Display Support for QEMU Driver + 1.8.4 oVirt Devel List # 1.8.4.1 oVirt Web API ala EC2 Web Services # 1.8.4.2 QPID Modeling Framework and libvirt-qpid # 1.8.4.3 Booting Guest From ISO Image -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack -- Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Beta -- Jesse Keating announced[1] the release of Fedora 10 Beta. "Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available." Among the new, fun, and interesting features: * New NetworkManager with connection sharing * Improved printer handling * Remote virtualization and easier virt storage * Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework * RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00016.html Additionally, Jesse reported[2] "there was a small problem during image creation that led to the
Fedora Weekly News #150
-Fedora Weekly News Issue 150- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 150 for the week ending November 2nd, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue150 In this week's issue, featured content includes announcements on a new Fedora Sugar Spin, and development freeze for Fedora 10. The Translation beat this week features an interview with Fedora Translation project member Diego Zacarao (Rasther). In Developments, details on resume from suspend problems with Intel i945s, details on "[a] gigantic multi-thread flamewar consum[ing] many list participants" over moving X from VT7 to VT1 and POSIX file capabilities for Fedora 11. The Artwork beat features discussion of new wallpaper extras, and final fixes for the Fedora 10 Solar backgrounds. The Security Advisory beat rounds out this issue and updates us with fixes released in the last week for Fedora 8 and 9. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join --Announcements-- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack ---Blocker Bug Review Meeting--- John Poelstra announced[1] that a "meeting is being held to review the current blocker bugs[2] in anticipation of the Final Development Freeze this Tuesday, October 28th." [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-October/msg00016.html [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=438943&hide_resolved=1 ---Translation packagers: Rebuild before devel freeze--- Dimitris Glezos wrote[3] to remind "maintainers of Fedora-translatable packages to issue a build before the Development Freeze of tomorrow, 28/10, in order to have all translations submitted until the translation deadline of 21/10 included in Fedora 10 (otherwise our translator's hard work will go to the gutter)." [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-October/msg00017.html ---Fedora Sugar Spin--- Sebastian Dziallas announced[4] the "availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD." To get the spin, and to contribute to its further development, read the full announcement below. [4] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-October/msg00012.html ---Frozen for Fedora 10--- Jesse Keating reminded[5] everyone that we are now frozen for Fedora 10. "At this point, builds for F10 are not automatically brought into Rawhide, and won't be in the Fedora 10 release. To request a freeze override, please use the Final Freeze Policy[6]." [5] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-October/msg00018.html [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy --Translation-- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee ---FTP Meeting to be held on 4th November 2008--- FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto announced the next meeting of the Fedora Translation Project to be held on the 4th of November 2008[1]. The time for the meeting is yet to be determined, with 1900 UTC and 2000 UTC being the two probable candidates. The meeting and agenda is open for all[2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-October/msg00215.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Meetings ---Package Rebuild requested by FTP--- Dimitris Glezos has requested the maintainers of the Fedora packages that were translated for Fedora 10 to rebuild them[3]. This would ensure that the translations submitted by the Fedora Translation Project members are included for all these packages. [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-October/msg00209.html TQSG repository set to be moved Fabian Affolter has initiated discussions to move the the Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG) to fedorahosted[4]. The move has been endorsed by Paul Frields on behalf of the Fedora Documentation team, subject to confirmation by FLSCo about the move and the ownership of the document[5]. The final decision, particularly about the VCS to be used, is pending at the moment. [4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-October/msg00203.html [5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-October/msg00222.html Dimitris Glezos nominated for the Fedora Board FLSCo Leader Dimitris Glezos has been nominated[6] by Max Spevack as one of the candidates for the upcoming Fedora Board elections to be held in December 2008. These elections would be held to elect two new members for the Fedora Board. [6] http://fedoraproje
Fedora Weekly News 152
-Fedora Weekly News Issue 152- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 152 for the week ending November 16th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue152 This week's exciting issue features extensive coverage of a Server SIG formation in the Developments beat, along with clarifications from the Fedora Engineering leadership on feature freeze policies. In announcements, reminders of this Tuesday's public Fedora Board meeting on #fedora-board-meeting at irc.freenode.net. The Translation beat features various Fedora 10 milestones and an introduction of three new members to the translation team. In Artwork, some history on the genesis of the Fedora infinity bubble is saved, and more feedback on Fedora 10 themes. Virtualization includes updates of dom0 support in the upstream kernel, and a RFC on including greater detail in domain events. Finally, Fedora 9 and 8 updates for the week in Security Advisories. These are but a few highlights in this week's Fedora Weekly News! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack --- Public Fedora Board Meeting on IRC --- Paul Frields reminded[1] the community about the upcoming Fedora Board meeting on IRC. The meeting will be on 2008-11-19 (Tuesday) at 19:00 UTC. "Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should limit confusion and ensure our logs are useful to everyone." [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-November/msg00010.html --- Upcoming Bugzilla Activities --- Jon Stanley wrote[2] about some upcoming Bugzilla changes, that will coincide with Fedora 10's release. There are two things of which people should be aware: First, "we will be rebasing all rawhide bugs to F10. This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 10 development cycle being changed to version '10' instead of their current assignment, 'rawhide'."; Second, "all bugs for EOL releases (at this point, Fedora 8) will get a comment on or about GA of Fedora 10, explaining that one month of maintenance remains, and to either move the bug to a later version if still applicable, or they will be automatically closed in one month with a resolution of WONTFIX." See the link below[2] for the complete announcement. [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-November/msg8.html -- Developments -- In this section the people, personalities and debates on the @fedora-devel mailing list are summarized. Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley --- Features Policy Modified --- The latest FESCo discussions (2008-11-12) clarified[1] the Features[2] process. The changes make explicit the need for testing to be complete one week prior to the final freeze. Failure to meet that condition can result in FESCo deciding to drop the feature or implement a contingency plan or other suitable action. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg00847.html [2] Features are "a significant change or enhancement to the version of Fedora currently under development": http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Definitions The spur to these discussions was several last-minute changes for Fedora 10 which included dropping the instant-messaging client Empathy as the default, and the late addition of LiveConnect (see FWN#151[3]) and AMQP[4]. Earlier confusion about the Feature process and difficulties with communication had also been expressed (see FWN#147[5]) after the decision to drop the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment as a feature. [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue151#LiveConnect_Feature_Approved_for_Fedora_10 [4] The Advanced Messaging Queue Protocol is a vendor-neutral middleware transport for business processes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Message_Queuing_Protocol [5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue147#LXDE_Feature_Removal_Disappointment_-_How_to_Avoid The other major changes to the process include the emailing of the Feature owner to inform them when their feature is being discussed by FESCo and any decisions made concerning said feature. The extra work involved in tracking down email addresses was anticipated to be an over-burdening of t
Fedora Weekly News # 156
-- Fedora Weekly News Issue 156 -- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 156 for the week ending December 14th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue156 This week's issue features an exciting discount for Fedora community members in Australia and New Zealand on Red Hat certification training and exams. Coverage of Fedora Planet includes event reports from a FOSS event in India and a Parisian Fedora install fest, along with a nifty XO Exchange Registry. Another flamewar eruption is covered on the Developments beat, along with updates on the D-Bus in Fedora and discussion on making 'updates-testing' more useful. Fedora websites are now available in Russian and Bulgarian, as reported in this issue's Translations beat. The Artwork beat reports on the Fedora Art Team's re-envisioning discussion as well as using the Fedora branding in the OLPC Sugar interface. The security advisory beat updates us on Fedora 9 and 10 updates, along with reminders of Fedora 8 end of life, January 7, 2009. In virtualization news, details of the latest libvert in RHEL and CentOS 5.2. All this and more in this week's FWN! FWN is considering changing the format in response to some reader suggestions. The Developments section this week attempts to be considerably shorter and places URLs below each section instead of interspersing them after each paragraph. We welcome reader feedback on the subject: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [0] http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack -- Red Hat Certification offer -- STOP THE PRESSES.50% Discount on Red Hat Certification Exams When the going gets tough - the tough get certified! Maximise your chance of career success in 2009 with Red Hat training and certification Special End of Year Offer for Fedora community members in Australia and New Zealand. 50% discount of all Red Hat Exams taken in Australia and New Zealand by February 28th, 2009 Get your certification today! Act now... simply visit http://www.apac.redhat.com/training/dates.php3 for a complete list of Red Hat exams available until 28th February, 2009 and write "Fedora Community Special" in the Promo code box. Make sure you use your Fedora email id when registering to qualify for the 50% discount. If you have a mate who would benefit from a Red Hat certification, make sure you pass on the good news! -- Terms and Conditions -- This offer begins December 15, 2008 and ends on February 28, 2009. Offer void if participant cancels, no shows, or requests a refund. Offer is subject to availability. Exams, reschedules and any retakes must be completed by February 28, 2009. Participants must register for the promotion at http://www.apac.redhat.com/training/register.php3 and enter “Fedora Community Special” in the Special Offers section, using their Fedora email id to register. Offer may not be used for exams in which you are already enrolled, cancellations and re-bookings. This offer is not valid in conjunction with any other promotions or special pricing. Participant is responsible for assessing his/her suitability for enrolling in the appropriate exam. Government employees and contractors may not be eligible to receive this offer and the participant acknowledges that his/her employer is aware of and consents to the receipt of the offer, and that the receipt of the offer does not violate the organisation’s policies and regulations. Void where prohibited by law. Offer is available to residents of Australia and New Zealand only. Red Hat reserves the right to withdraw or extend this offer at anytime. -- Updates -- Paul Frields wrote[1] about the update problem affecting D-Bus. "Recently, an update of D-Bus software package in Fedora 10 caused the substantial breakage of some applications, including PackageKit." The announcement includes instructions that explain how a user can update the system manually using yum on the command-line, and return to business-as-usual. If you are unable to perform a normal system update using PackageKit and need help, please read the full announcement. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00012.html -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http:
Fedora Weekly News #157
-- Fedora Weekly News Issue 157 -- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 157 for the week ending December 21st, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue157 In our last issue of 2008, Announcements reminds you of FWN's holiday schedule and presents the gift of the Omega distro, Planet is chock full of tasty tidbits from the Fedora blogosphere, Developments invites you to warm your hands over a "Nautilus Spatial-mode Flamewar", Documentation invites you to a "Holiday Hackfest", Translations reports on the re-organization of "Sponsors for cvsl10n", Artwork unwraps some shiny "Creation Highlights", SecurityAdvisories lists some ways to avoid a lump of coal from Santa, and the usual sleigh-load of Virtualization goodies includes instructions on "Building oVirt from Rawhide." We would like to thank our readers for their interest and attention and all our contributors for producing the goods week after week. May you all have a happy and relaxing holiday and we look forward to seeing you again in January 2009. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack -- FWN Holiday Break -- Fedora Weekly News will be on vacation for the next two weeks. Our next issue will be published on January 12th. Happy holidays! -- FUDCon Boston 2009 -- FUDCon Boston 2009 is January 9-11. It is not too late to register[1]. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 -- Fedora Remixes -- Rahul Sundaram announced[2] the General Availability of Omega 10, "a Linux based operating system and a community Fedora Remix for desktop and laptop users." Sundaram added, "It is a installable Live CD for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It has all the features of Fedora 10 and a number of additional multimedia players and codecs. You can play any multimedia including MP3 music or commercial DVD's out of the box." For additional information, and to download Omega or view the kickstart used to create it, please read the full announcement. [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00014.html -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin -- General -- Máirín Duffy said[1] it best: "ZOMG Stickers11" Rex Dieter announced[2] a new fedora-kde mailing list Harald Hoyer analyzed[3] the Fedora 10 boot process on an EeePC 901 with a solid-state disk, including some easy optimizations Casey Dahlin wrote a series[4,5,6,7] on a new internal state machine driving the Upstart service manager Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay discussed[8] some of the commonly overlooked difficulties of the commonly overlooked process of internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) Warren Togami had[9] some problems netbooting old PowerPC Macs as Thin Clients (and is open to suggestions) Tim Waugh posted[10] a tutorial on preventing a Python/GTK+ application from appearing to freeze while performing CUPS operations Abhishek Rane summarized[11] his thoughts on "Best of FOSS and Linux in 2008" Dimitris Glezos described[12] Transifex and their new startup company built around it Christoph Wickert embedded[13] a video interview with Mario Behling talking about LXDE Jef Spaleta offered[14] a number of retrospective questions at the end of his tenure on the Fedora Board Sébastien Bilbeau posted[15] the "25 Best Linux Desktop Customization Screenshots" Yaakov Nemoy mused[16] about the relationship between the Open Source development process and anarchy [1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/65838.html [2] http://rdieter.livejournal.com/11262.html [3] http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-boot-analysis [4] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine.html [5] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-2.html [6] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-3.html [7] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-4.html [8] http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/12/16/and-here-we-go-again-2/ [9] http://wtogami.livejournal.com/29574.html [10] http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/12/17/cups-gtk-python-and-threading/ [11] http://www.abhishekrane.com/2008/12/17/best-o
Fedora Weekly News #158
Fedora Weekly News Issue 158
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 158 for the week ending January
11th, 2009.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue158
In this first FWN issue of 2009, we bring you several announcements of
the outcomes of recent Fedora-related elections. Fedora 8 reaches its
end of life (time to upgrade!), and FUDCon 11 reports abound. Much news
coverage of the Fedora Planet, including Fedora 10 vs. OpenSuSE,
explanations on some of the recent security items now in the latest
(2.6.28) Linux Kernel, and Fedora and OLPC goodness. From the
development realm, useful coverage of the state of Intel graphics under
Fedora 10 and debates on disabling staging drivers. Release notes and
packaging guide areas need volunteers in the documentation project, and
the translation team welcomes new members and suggests new language
teams. In artwork, announcement of a new November/December issue of Echo
Monthly News, another great sister Fedora publication. Security
advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 are brought to light and the issue round
out with more virtualization coverage, including announcement of Xen
3.3.1 in Rawhide and a new Fedora virtualization list, "everything
concerning Fedora and virtualization, including Xen." Read on!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
--- Election Results ---
Bill Nottingham and Matt Domsch were re-elected to the Fedora Board for
two-release terms[1].
Josh Boyer, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and Jon Stanley were elected to the
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for two-release terms[2].
Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo
Padula, David Nalley, and Susmit Shannigrahi were elected to the Fedora
Ambassadors Steering Committee for two-release terms[3].
Paul Frields announced that Dimitris Glezos has been appointed to fill
the final seat on the Fedora Board[4].
[1]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00019.html
[2]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00017.html
[3]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00018.html
[4]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg7.html
--- FUDCon Boston 2009 ---
Hopefully, you were able to attend to attend FUDCon Boston, January
9-11. If you weren't, keep reading below for coverage!
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11
--- Fedora 8 End of Life --
The end-of-life for Fedora 8 is Wednesday, January 7[1]. No further
updates will be issued, no new builds will be allowed in the build
system, and all open bugs against Fedora 8 will be closed WONTFIX[2].
[1]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00018.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
http://planet.fedoraproject.org
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
--- General ---
Michael DeHaan wrote[1] an essay entitled Academics, Innovation,
Patents, And a Path Beyond? about FOSS, cross-organizational
collaboration and encouraging innovation.
Jef Spaleta had some ideas[2] about "how to do more focused new
contributor recruitment and training in Fedora" and using the Mugshot
online service to gather statistics and create personalized
notifications (invitations) to its users.
Máirín Duffy created[3] a list of questions (and provoked a healthy
discussion) that could be used to develop a set of guidelines for
notifications ("Chatty Applications").
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote[4] about some of the work going in to
synchronizing Fedora and OLPC efforts.
James Morris explained[5] some of the security changes that have gone in
to the latest (2.6.28) Linux Kernel.
Karsten Wade asked "why aren’t you publishing on the Fedora wiki?"[6]
and followed up with a set of thoughts to encourage documentation
contributions.
After a few Fedora 10 frustrations, Scott Williams tried-out[7] OpenSuSE
and found some good bits and some not-so-good bits.
The latest Red Hat Magazine included[8] a video interview of Michael
DeHann discussing Cobbler "and how it simplifies network installations
for datacenters and other large-scale linux environments".
James Laska continued[9] his tutorial on Creating a virtual test lab
(using tools such as Cobbler, Koan and SNAKE).
Fedora Weekly News #159
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 159 for the week ending January 19th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue159 This week's issue reveals the code name for Fedora 11 and provides coverage from the latest FUDCon in announcements. News abounds from around Fedora Planet, including musings on the reduction of the OLPC dev team, thoughts on what it means to contribute to Fedora from several contributors, and much more. Development reports on several discussions from the recent FUDCon on the possible future of comps.xml, new packages to Rawhide coming, and more. More depth of discussion on the need for a Fedora Project CMS is offered in the Docs beat, and Translations has lots more to report on new members of various internationalization teams. The Art beat has a wonderful in-depth look at approaches for themes for Fedora 11, and security advisories brings us up to date with recent updates there. We complete the issue with news from virtualization developments, including two items regarding sVirt, a project to add security labeling support to Linux-based virtualization, and other focused discussions with libvirt. Enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack --- Fedora 11 Release Name --- At FUDCon Boston, Paul Frields announced that "Leonidas" had won the vote, and will be the code name of Fedora 11. There was much screaming and yelling, and reciting of lines from "The 300"[0]. [0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg4.html --- FUDCon Boston --- FUDCon Boston was a great success[1]. Not only are many videos from the sessions available on the Fedora Wiki, but there is also a collection of blog posts from various attendees[2]. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00013.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDConF11_blogs --- Technical Announcements --- Jon Stanley announced[3] that he and Dennis Gilmore "are beginning an effort to migrate fedora-* redhat com to lists.fedoraproject.org." There are several benefits to this move, including greater control of the Fedora lists, a stronger Fedora identity (@lists.fedoraproject.org as opposed to @redhat.com), and the ability to be more responsive to community requests. [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00012.html Jesse Keating announced[4] that on January 20th, "we will be doing a non-blocking freeze of Rawhide to be the basis of Fedora 11 Alpha. Only targeted fixes will be pulled into the Alpha tag after the freeze. Rawhide itself will continue on as to not disrupt development." [4] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg5.html --- Upcoming Events --- Fedora will have a presence at several events in the next few weeks. Feel free to join us, February 6 - 8: Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM)[5] February 20 - 22: Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE)[6] Also, people are encouraged to register for Fedora or JBoss.org related speaking slots at LinuxTag 2009[7]. [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM/FOSDEM2009 [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SCALE7X_Event [7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag_2009_talks -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin --- General --- Marc F Ferguson expounded[0] upon the wonders of "Being a Part of Something Bigger" by joining the Fedora Project and switching to Linux! While there are lots of positive posts out there, this one captures the positive feeling that a lot of folks have by joining a project like Fedora. Andrew Overholt appealed[1] for anyone interested in helping get JBoss AS 5.0 into Fedora. Karsten Wade wrote[2] about some of the issues and concerns involved with picking a CMS for Fedora. Abhishek Rane posted[3] some nice screenshots of Amarok 2.0.1.1 (as well as a download link for Fedora 10). Jef Spaleta continued[4] his across-the-intertubes discussion with Mark Shuttleworth about Canonical's Launchpad being closed source, and talked about his motivations behind contributing to Fedora: "I have never received a paycheck from Red Hat in any capacity...Making sure companies which proclaim to be open source advocates are actually ‘walk
Fedora Weekly News Issue 161
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 161 for the week ending February 1, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue161 This week's FWN goodness offers a very special update from the Fonts SIG to bring us up to date on their work leading up to Fedora 11. You may also notice that we are tweaking the wiki formatting to take advantage of the cite module and other features in MediaWiki, and employing User: references for links to named Fedora folk. We'd love to hear your feedback on these changes. Also in this week's intrepid issue details on the upcoming Fedora monthly public meeting, updates on upcoming events with a Fedora presence, and news updates from around the Fedora Planet. In Developments, details on a slight delay to F11 Alpha and Electronic Automation Tools updates. Translation news brings updates from the latest FLP meeting and website translation updates, along with more Fedora 11 plans. A couple brief updates from the Infrastructure Team, including discussion of possible automation of fedora hosted requests. The Artwork beat paints a lovely picture with details on Fedora 11 visual details, and we're brought up to date with the latest security advisories for Fedora 9 and 10. The issue completes with updates from the various virtualization projects, including details on a new libvirt and virt-manager, as well as meaty updates on the Fedora Xen list. Enjoy, everyone! We are currently looking for a new writer to cover the Fedora Ambassadors for FWN. The work chiefly involves summarizing each's week's traffic on the Fedora Ambassadors' list, and is likely a time committment of perhaps one hour per week. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack === Fedora Board Meeting === Paul Frields wrote[2] that "the Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 3 February 2009, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode." * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. 1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00018.html === Legal === Tom Callaway announced [1] that "after talking with Red Hat Legal about how we should be handling trademarks in package summaries and descriptions, we came to the conclusion that it would be far easier (and less risky for Red Hat) if we did not use "(TM)" or "(R)" notations at all." 1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00012.html === Fedora 11 === Fedora 11 Alpha is likely to be delayed for a few days (originally scheduled for February 3) due to a GUI checkbox bug in Anaconda and a problem with nfs-utils that prevented installs over NFS. See the links [1] [2] [3] below for all the technical details. 1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00013.html 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00014.html 3. ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483375 === Upcoming Events === Fedora will have a presence at several events in the next few weeks. Feel free to join us, February 6 - 8: Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM)[1] February 20 - 22: Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE)[2][3] Also, people are encouraged to register for Fedora or JBoss.org related speaking slots at LinuxTag 2009.[4] 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM/FOSDEM2009 2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SCALE7X_Event 3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_at_SCaLE_7x 4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag_2009_talks == Special Report: Fonts SIG == Contributing Writer: Nicolas Mailhot Since Fedora 11 Alpha is quickly approaching, here is a much-delayed edition of the fonts SIG irregular status report. You may recall FWN covered the font surveys in FWN #153[1]. The following special report is largely in addition to that previous report. I should probably have done one for Fedora 10 release, but (silly me) expected then that the new font packaging guidelines would be adopted quickly. After all, they only reworded existing rules and added material already presented and discussed on the fonts and devel lists. Of course various instances decided to celebrate F10 by taking a break, then the
Fedora Weekly News #163
Fedora Weekly News Issue 163 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 163 for the week ending February 15th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue163 This week's issue provides some detail on the upcoming Fedora Activity Day (FAD) at Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE), many posts from the Fedora Planet blogosphere, and selected wonderful event reports from FOSDEM. We welcome a brand new Quality Assurance beat this issue, with coverage of the latest test day focusing on iSCSI for Fedora 11, summary of the latest QA weekly meeting, and discussion of the process for critical-release bugs. In Development news, discussion of FLOSS multimedia codec support in Fedora, preview looks at F11 release notes, and the availability of CrossReport, a tool to evaluate the ease with which applications can be ported to Windows using the MinGW libraries. From the Translation team, updates and details on the infrastructure roadmap for translation, and migration of Damned Lies to the new Django-based interface. Infrastructure reports availability of WordPress multi-user for Fedora sub-projects, and planning for cgit as a replacement for gitweb on hosted2. Artwork has updates on the continuing evolution of Fedora 11 artwork. The Security Week beat examines recent discussion on Slashdot regarding 'how to argue the security of open source software,' and this issue wraps up with a summary of the security advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 over this past week. Enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents Contributing Writer: Max Spevack --- Slow News Week --- It was a quiet week on the announcements front, with nothing more than a few outage notifications being sent to the primary Fedora announcements mailing lists. Your correspondent promises to make an announcement this week, so that this space may be used to its full potential in next week's issue. --- Upcoming Events --- 2009-02-20: Fedora Activity Day @ SCaLE[1] 2009-02-20 - 2009-02-22: Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE)[2] Also, people are encouraged to register for Fedora or JBoss.org related speaking slots at LinuxTag 2009.[3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_at_SCaLE_7x 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SCaLE_7x_Event 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_Berlin_and_LinuxTag_2009_talks -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin --- Activism Alert --- Oron Peled wrote[1] about a proposed new IETF standard for "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Extensions" which may be patent-encumbered before it is even approved. Paul W. Frields appealed[2] for prior art against a patent that covers a user interface that has multiple workspaces (filed 1987-03-25). --- General --- Dave Jones announced[3] some changes to the Fedora kernel packaging "to drop the regular 686 kernels. As of Fedora 11, the only 32-bit kernels built are '586' and '686-PAE' (and their -debug variants)." Lennart Poettering described[4] some of the new changes in the latest PulseAudio 0.9.15 release, including Flat Volumes, On-the-fly Reconfiguration of Devices (aka "S/PDIF Support"), Native support for 24bit samples and support for Airport Express. David Nalley wrote[5] about the Fedora Ambassadors giving away free XO laptops! To qualify, either "Package and maintain a sugar-* package for 2 releases or more" or "Build a Sugar activity that helps meet the 'holy list of 4th grade maths[6]'". Andrew Overholt announced[7] the release of the Linux Tools project for Eclipse. The release has lots of features from profiling and tracing with SystemTap to autoconf and RPM spec file editor (with autocomplete) support. Jef Spaleta expressed[8] mild excitement at Canonical's "Renewed focus on suspend resume". In a later post, he wrote[9] about comparing Linux (and even OSX) user experiences with respect to functionality regressions after an update. Seth Vidal mused[10] on the fact that a poster on Planet Gnome[11] had said that "Fedora is held to a higher standard" than certain other distributions. Harish Pillay reacted[12] to an IDC report claiming "Proprietary software products are much better documented than open source because
Fedora Weekly News #164
Fedora Weekly News Issue 164
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 164 for the week ending February
22nd, 2009.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue164
This week Announcements showcases Fedora Unity respins of Fedora 10,
PlanetFedora selects some great blog entries on how to tag audio streams
in PulseAudio and use func, QualityAssurance explains how to participate
in test days, Developments covers the "Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild",
Translations describes the new "L10n Infrastructure Team", Artwork
covers some pretty "Evolving Fedora 11 Artwork" and Virtualization
examines attempts to bridge the gap between libvirt and host network
interface configuration.
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
--- General ---
Your faithful correspondent announced[1] that this year's European
FUDCon will be held in Berlin from June 26 - 28, overlapping partially
with LinuxTag. Everyone is encouraged to read the full announcement and
to register[2] for the event.
Ben Williams, whose wife knits incredible scarves with Tux on them,
announced[3] that a new set of Fedora 10 respins have been released by
the Fedora Unity[4] team, containing all updates through February 10.
Technical
Jesse Keating reminded[5] the community that "due to a number of
features, every package in Fedora 11 needs to be rebuilt." A wiki
page[6] has been created that package maintainers should look to for
more information.
Peter Gordon announced[7] that an update to rb_libtorrent includes a
soname bump that impacts other packages.
--- Upcoming Events ---
February 27 - March 1: FOSSMeet @ NITC[8] in Calicut, India.
February 28: Fedora Round Table[9] in Karlsruhe, Germany.
March 5-7: Computer Using Educators[10] in Palm Springs, CA.
March 9: Florida Linux Show[11] in Jacksonville, FL.
March 10-12: FOSE[12] in Washington, DC.
March 13-15: Chemnitzer Linux Tage[13] in Chemnitz, Germany.
--- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ---
FUDCon Berlin[14] will be held from June 26 - 28 in Berlin, Germany.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-February/msg00010.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_attendees
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-February/msg9.html
4. http://fedoraunity.org
5.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-February/msg00011.html
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
7.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-February/msg00014.html
8. http://nitc.fossmeet.in/
9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FRT
10. http://www.cue.org/conference/
11. http://floridalinuxshow.com/
12. http://fose.com/
13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/CLT
14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
http://planet.fedoraproject.org
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
--- General ---
Michael DeHaan discussed[1] various Linux system configuration applets
and some ideas how to unify/integrate them. On an unrelated note, he
also wrote[2] about HTML Slidey[3]: Slide Shows in XHTML.
Gary Benson announced[4] that Zero has passed the Java SE 6 TCK, which
means that OpenJDK in Fedora 10 for 32 and 64 bit PowerPC-based systems
are now pretty much guaranteed to run anything you can throw at them.
Daniel Walsh explained[5],[6] some SELinux history, voodoo and how to
rebuild bits of the policy RPMs.
Jeremy Katz reviewed[7] the book Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug and
how that applies to web usability.
Red Hat Magazine[8] spotlighted[9] Func, which "makes it easy to write
commands across large numbers of machines remotely and securely".
Ankur Sinha wrote[10] an article about the history of Fedora and its
four core values.
Jef Spaleta wondered[11] how popular Git was, and found some interesting
statistics from GitHub. He also discovered that apparently some[12]
Canonical developers (the kernel folks) do used Git instead of Bzr.
Roland Wolters announced[13] that RPM Fusion[14] ("a merge of several
former Fedora 3rd party repositories providing licence/patent
problematic packages") has entered the testing state.
Ryan Lerch described[15] how to "Create a Lightbulb Icon that follows
the tango! guidelines".
Jack Aboutb
Fedora Weekly News #165
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 165 for the week ending March 1, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue165 In this week's issue, in announcements we're reminded about this month's Fedora Board meeting and updates on the Fedora 11 feature freeze and updates on upcoming Fedora events. News from the Fedora Planet includes summer internship opportunities at Red Hat, an interview with Matt Domsch in Red Hat Magazine, and reports from Fedora events in Egypt and India. In Ambassador news, many reports from the recent Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) meeting, and another update from a Fedora install fest in Texas. In the QA beat, updates from Fedora 11 testing and weekly planning, as well as helping new contributors with the BugZapper team. Art work brings more updates on the Echo icon theme and Fedora 11. In security news, updates on this week's fixes for Fedora 9 and 10, and ongoing conversation on the security of open and closed source systems. Finally, the issue wraps up with updates on Fedora 11 virtualization features, dom0 kernel experimentation, and some Q&A on Libvirt, VirtIO, KVM, and Xen. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents Contributing Writer: Max Spevack --- General --- The Fedora Board is having its monthly meeting on Tuesday March 3rd at 1900 UTC on IRC[1]. * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should limit confusion and ensure our logs are useful to everyone. --- Fedora 11 --- The Fedora 11 feature freeze is coming this week[2]. Feature owners should update their feature's status[3] on the wiki before March 3rd, as the feature list will be sent to FESCo on March 6th for review. Mass rebuilds of all packages are ongoing for Fedora 11[4]. Package maintainers should check[5] to see whether or not they own any packages that still need to be rebuilt. Finally, we need to ensure that any hard-coded i386 architectures in spec files are fixed, or else the package runs the risk of not being built in the 32bit Rawhide repository[6]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-February/msg00013.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-February/msg00022.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-February/msg00023.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-February/msg00027.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg0.html --- Upcoming Events --- March 5-7: Computer Using Educators[1] in Palm Springs, CA. March 9: Florida Linux Show[2] in Jacksonville, FL. March 10-12: FOSE[3] in Washington, DC. March 13-15: Chemnitzer Linux Tage[4] in Chemnitz, Germany. 1. http://www.cue.org/conference/ 2. http://floridalinuxshow.com/ 3. http://fose.com/ 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/CLT --- FUDCon Berlin 2009 --- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26 - 28 in Berlin, Germany. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin --- General --- Harish Pillay disected[1] an interview regarding Oracle's rebuild of CentOS. Martin Sourada showed off[2] some Echo Icon Theme eye candy. Jeremy Katz mused[3] on some ideas to make sharing Git repositories easier. Daniel Walsh announced[4] a summer internship at Red Hat working on SELinux. Jef Spaleta discussed[5] Canonical's methodology for determining its userbase size and relative contributions to upstream projects (compared to Red Hat and Fedora). Yaakov Nemoy suggested [6] that usage of the word "canonical" should be increased, starting with changes like renaming the "Fedora Packaging Guidelines" to the "Packaging Canon". Abhishek Rane posted[7] a screenshot tour of KDE 4.2. Joseph Smidt wrote[8] about the massive number of new Features that Fedora 11 is slated to contain. Cole Robin
Fedora Weekly News #170
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 170 for the week ending April 5, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue170 In this week's issue, we're proud to include the Fedora Weekly webcomic by Nicu Buculei, who has been producing this regularly for some time. We think you will enjoy Nicu's art and humor. Other selected content includes: * Detailed coverage in the announcements and infrastructure sections on the August 2008 Fedora security intrusion, and updates on the upcoming FUDCon Berlin. * News from the Fedora Planet includes updates on the fourth grade math project for Sugar/OLPC, reviews of Songbird and Flock, amongst other birds of a feather. * In the Developments beat, the mysteries of Fedora & OpenSolaris dual-boot is revealed. * Translation: updates on F11 release note translations, and new members of the Fedora Localization Project * An interview with three members of the Art Team in this week's Art Beat * April Fools and the Conflicker worm, in this week's Security Week beat * Security updates for Fedora 9 and 10 over the past week * Updates on the state of virtualization in Fedora, with a view towards F11 feature rollup If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com 1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events Contributing Writer: Max Spevack --- Fedora Board --- Paul Frields[1] reminded[2] the community that the Fedora Board will be "holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode." Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. Paul also mentioned a change in the procedure for the meeting. "We're trying something new (albeit in a minor way) in this meeting. The moderator will still be available to gather input from the #fedora-board-public channel, but will voice people, one at a time, in the queue in the #fedora-board-meeting channel." --- Security --- Paul Frields also issued[3] a detailed, and final report to the Fedora community regarding the August 2008 intrusion. Because of the detailed nature of the announcement, rather than summarize it here, your correspondent encourages people to read the full link. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg9.html 3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00010.html --- Fedora 11 --- Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] the release of Fedora 11 Beta on March 31. More details about this release will appear later in this week's FWN. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00012.html --- FUDCon Berlin 2009 --- Max Spevack[1] reminded[2] the community about FUDCon Berlin 2009[3], including registration[4], lodging[5], and speaking[6] opportunities. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg5.html 3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_attendees 5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_lodging 6. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_Berlin_and_LinuxTag_2009_talks --- Upcoming Events --- April 15: NYLUG[1] in New York, New York, USA. April 17-19: Summer Geek Camp 2[2] in Antipolo City, Phillipines. April 18: BarCamp Rochester[3] in Rochester, New York, USA. April 19-22: Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit[4] in Malta. April 24-25: FLISOL, all over the LATAM region. April 25: Trenton Computer Festival[5] in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. April 25-26: Linux Fest Northwest[6] in Bellingham, Wasthington, USA. 1. ↑ http://nylug.org/ 2. ↑ http://fedora.bluepoint.com.ph/index.php?entry=20090204000843 3. ↑ http://barcamprochester.org/ 4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_EMEA_Partner_Summit_2009 5. ↑ http://tcf-nj.org/ 6. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFest_Northwest_%28LFNW%29_2009 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin --- General --- Silas Sewell wrote[1] a tutorial on using the Qpid implementation of The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AM
Fedora Weekly News 176
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 176[1] for the week ending May 17th, 2009. In this week's content-rich issue, announcements brings us Fedora Activity Day (FAD) updates from Maylasia and the upcoming Berlin and Porto Alegre FUDCons, and several upcoming Fedora related eventsin Romania and Brazil. A sampling of the Fedora Planet reveals changes in IcedTea, Eclipse Linux Tools, detail on transitioning from rawhide to Fedora 11, amongst other jewels. In QA news, details from the recent iBus test days and many weekly meeting updates. In Developments, a broken dependency brouhaha flavored the fedora-devel list this week along with discussion of emacs add-ons for the Fedora Electronic Lab spin, and details on being excellent to one another on the list. In translation news, updates to Fedora 11 and news of inclusion of the specspo package in the upcoming release. The artwork team muses about wallpaper gallery developments and needs and final media art prep for F11. Nicu's Fedora webcomic postulates on the F11 pre-release queue, and we complete this week's melange with much news on the virtualization front from the lib-virt list. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala 1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue176 2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- Oddly enough, there weren't any Fedora 11 announcements this week. The schedule[1] continues to list Tuesday, May 26 as the release date. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule --- Fedora 12 (Rawhide) --- The KDE Special Interest Group[1] has begun the process of bringing KDE 4.3-beta1 into Fedora 12's Rawhide[2]. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-May/msg8.html --- Bugzilla --- Some housekeeping in Bugzilla will take place[1] following the Fedora 11 release. All Rawhide bugs will automatically be changed to Fedora 11 -- because the Rawhide under which those bugs will followed will have also changed into Fedora 11. Secondly, all Fedora 9 bugs will automatically receive a notice stating that there is only one month of support remaining for that release. 1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-May/msg7.html --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. -- Fedora Activity Day Malaysia Planning is underway for a Fedora Activity Day[1] in Malaysia at the end of May, contingent upon gathering together sufficient Fedora contributors to make such an event worthwhile. If you are in the area and are interested in attending or have some ideas on projects that could be worked on, see the wiki page[2] for more information. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD 2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Malaysia_May_2009 --- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 --- FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, and to sign up, please visit the wiki page. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 --- FUDCon Berlin 2009 --- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're getting close to crossing the 100-person-preregistered mark. Don't forget to pre-register[2] for the event, and also to sign up for lodging[3] if you need it. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_attendees 3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_lodging --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! May 22-23: eLiberatica[1] in Bucharest, Romania. May 29-30: III ENSL e IV FSLBA[2] in Salvador, Brazil. 1. ↑ http://www.eliberatica.ro/2009/ 2. ↑ https://wiki.softwarelivre.org/Festival4 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. ↑ http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Deepak Bhole joined the blogging world (welcome!) by explaining[1] changes that the IcedTea Java web browser Plugin will be undergoing in order to continue functioning after some ancient APIs (LiveConnect and OJI) are removed fr
Fedora Weekly News 178
Fedora Weekly News Issue 178 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 178[1] for the week ending May 31st, 2009. We have a couple changes of note this week. Oisin Feeley, who has been on the editorial team for FWN and writer for the Development section, is leaving FWN for an extended time period due to other commitments. We will miss him and hope to have him back at some time. Adam Williamson, who currently also writes the wonderful QA beat, joins the editorial team at FWN -- welcome Adam! This week's issue starts off with some poetry on next week's expected Fedora 11 release, and much activity on upcoming Fedora activity days, dev cons, and events. In news from the Fedora Planet, we learn about SELinux sandbox, an overview on virtualization features in F11, several musings on aspects of open source projects/communities, and a feature interview with Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields. The Quality Assurance beat details the QA weekly meeting leading up to F11 next week, F11 FAQ work, and release candidate testing detail. Development asks whether gNaughty is indeed a Hot Babe, detail on getting graphics support working for the Fedora Live USB with the Chrome9 Vx800 GPU, and suggestions on upgrading to F11 via yum. In Translation news, upcoming F11 website translation details and a new member of the Romanian translation team. This issue is rounded out with an overview of the security advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 this past week. Enjoy this issue and get ready for Fedora 11 a week from tomorrow! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue178 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- This week's Fedora 11 announcements come with apologies to William Butler Yeats[1]. Somewhere in the build systems of Fedora, A shape with lion body and the name of a Greek king, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the impatient downloaders. The schedule slips again[2]; but now I know That 6 months of stony sleep Were vexed to release by Jesse Keating, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards June 9th to be born? 1. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00011.html --- Fedora Board --- The Fedora Board's next public IRC meeting will be held on Thursday June 4th, at 1700 UTC[1]. Join[2] #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation, and join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00010.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#IRC --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. -- Fedora Activity Days: Malaysia and Rheinfelden At press time, two Fedora Activity Days[1] were wrapping up, one in Malaysia[2] and one in Germany[3] for more information. See Max Spevack's blog[4] for more information. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Malaysia_May_2009 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Rheinfelden 4. http://spevack.livejournal.com/81179.html --- Fedora Activity Day: Development Cycle --- In North America, Jesse Keating announced[1] an upcoming Fedora Activity Day[2] "for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to decide on a solution, it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will then be shared with the whole community for more input and work." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00012.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 FUDCon Berlin 2009 FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 120 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1.
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 179[1] for the week ending June 7, 2009. In this, the issue immediately prior to the impending release of Fedora 11, we have a fine bevy of news for you. Fedora elections are open for voting in the various positions, please participate if you are eligible. John Polestra has also been elected to the Fedora Board for a two release term. From around the Fedora Planet, Fedora 11 podcasts, details on fingerprint authentication in F11, and thoughts on ensuring Fedora teams sustainability from Fedora leader Paul W. Frields. In Ambassadors, a reminder to please send in news about upcoming Fedora events in your area. In QA news, details on this past weekly meeting, deeply focused in pre-Fedora 11 final testing and pre-upgrade status. In the Translation beat, the release notes for Fedora 11 have been completed and are ready for translation rebuild after the Fedora 11 Release Announcement. The Fedora Localization Project welcomed new contributors for Latvian and Russian, Chinese, Italian, traditional Chinese and Korean and Spa nish this past week! The Fedora Design team is already thinking about Fedora 12 'themeability' of some of the proposed codenames for F12. Also some great artwork for an upcoming FUDCon in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. In Security news, details on .ORG becoming the first top-level domain to sign their zone with DNSSEC and implications for other domains. Our issue this week rounds up with news from virtualization teams, including updates on libvirt 0.6.4, thoughts of virtualization features for Fedora 12, and much more. Enjoy! We are still looking for several writers to take up dormant beats in Fedora development, OLPC, and other potential areas. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue179 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- Fedora 11 is coming on Tuesday June 9. Check out the tour[1]. Rawhide has officially moved to Fedora 12 content[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg1.html --- Elections --- By the time you are reading this, the current round of Fedora elections will be taking place. All the information[1] that you need for voting is included in the reference link. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg4.html Fedora Board John Poelstra[1] has been appointed to the Fedora Board, for a two-release term. Paul Frields[2] wrote[3], "Many of our contributors know John from his work in many capacities around the Project, from work with the Fedora Bug Zappers, maintaining our release schedule, and facilitating meetings for many of our community teams. He will bring a unique perspective and experience to our team." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg2.html --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. Fedora Activity Day: Development Cycle In North America, Jesse Keating announced[1] an upcoming Fedora Activity Day[2] "for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to decide on a solution, it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will then be shared with the whole community for more input and work." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00012.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 FUDCon Berlin 2009 FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got over 130 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or vol
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 180[1] for the week ending June 14, 2009. In this week's issue, we open with useful links announcing the 'hot-off-the-bitpress' Fedora 11 (Leonidas) release, and also reminders about voting for the code name for Fedora 12 and other Fedora elections. There are many FUDCons, FADs and other Fedora events, helpfully listed as well. From Planet Fedora, two interesting samples: news from Fedora blogs and contributors including an interview with Eric Sandeen about ext4, linux filesystems and Fedora 11, and rave reviews on Presto, Fedora 11's enhanced DeltaRPM service that can be configured. In the Quality Assurance beat, review of the Bugzappers weekly meeting and changes this will have to triage work, as well as availability of a set of Fedora 11 delta ISO images. In Translation news, announcement of new localization team members for Norwegian and Arabic, and reports on work to convert the Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG) to a format usable by Publican. In Design team news, detail on the recent discussion to potentially redesign the fedoraproject.org homepage, and summary of a heated debate over distribution branding in general and spins in particular. The 20 year-old hacker e-zine, Phrack 66, is noted in the Security Week beat along with a Firefox security update, and in virtualization news, details on how to add a custom-built vm to virt-manager, and discussion about how to restrict VNC to specific VMs per guest. We finish this week's issue off with AskFedora, which answers general questions posed by the community. In this installment, find out what Fedora's official policy on Mono is. Read on, and enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue180 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- This week brought the official release of Fedora 11, complete with release announcement[1] and third-party repos[2]. Check out the Fedora 11 tour[3] for more information about features and screenshots. Similarly, as Fedora 9 moves closer to its end-of-life, no new Fedora 9 CVS branches are allowed[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg6.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg7.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg4.html --- Elections --- The current round of Fedora elections is currently taking place. All the information[1] that you need for voting is included in the reference link. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg4.html --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. Fedora Activity Day: Southeast Linuxfest A Fedora Activity Day focused on documentation[1] will accompany Southeast Linuxfest this weekend (June 14th). About 10 people will be participating, and a variety of activities are planned, with more details available by following the reference link. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 FUDCon Berlin 2009 FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 150 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 Upcoming Events Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[1] in Clemson, South Carolina. June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[2] in Clemson, South Carolina June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[3] in Portland, Oregon. June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[4] in Porto Alegre, Brazil. June 24-27: LinuxTag[5] in Berlin, Germany. June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[6] in Berlin, Germany. 1. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/ 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009 6. htt
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 181[1] for the week ending June 21, 2009. Here are a few highlights from this week's issue. Announcements starts us off with a reminder that Fedora 9 end-of-life is July 10, and an update from the Fonts SIG, including many Fedora 11 items, along with coverage of the Fedora Activity Day recently held. From the Fedora Planet, details on a new Fedora Community Portal that opened to much excitement. The QA beat turns its sights to Fedora 12, with details on schedule, installer and rawhide testing plans. In Fedora Ambassador, news on the SouthEast Linux Fest last week in Clemson, SC. Translation news brings us word of many new members to the localization project, and translation updates for Fedora web for Dutch and Hebrew. The Artwork & Design beat completes the issue with coverage of discussion on Fedora 12 theming. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue181 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 9 (Sulphur) --- The end-of-life for Fedora 9 has been set for Friday, July 10.[1] After this date, no builds will be allowed in Koji, and no further updates will be pushed. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg9.html --- Fonts Special Interest Group --- Nicolas Mailhot[1] posted a fantastic status report[2] about all of the recent happenings in the Fonts SIG[3]. Some of the Fedora 11-related highlights include automatic font installation[4] courtesy of PackageKit, as well as updates to the fonts packaging guidelines, and re-packaging of many fonts as a result. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Nim 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg00010.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fonts_SIG 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticFontInstallation --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. -- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 35 people have signed up so far. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 --- FUDCon Berlin 2009 --- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 150 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. If you have not yet acquired your e-ticket, find instructions here.[2] --- Fedora Activity Day Fedora Development Cycle 2009 --- A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) was held June 8-10 at Red Hat's campus in Raleigh, NC to refine the development cycle for the coming year. More detail and discussion logs are available[3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00012.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * 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#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- Community Portal --- The new Fedora Community Portal[1] has been opened! A number of Planet bloggers have posted[2][3][4] about this with great excitement. No more paintain[5]! 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 2. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/11/fedora-11-is-out/ 3. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2545 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/no-more-paintain/ 5. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/what-does-paintain-mean/ --- General --- Chitlesh Goorah explained[1] how to use the newly-packaged MinGW cross-compiler suite in Fedora 11, by cross-compil
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 182 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Elections + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.3 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General + 1.2.2 FUDCon o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Release event in Naples + 1.3.2 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Test Day shepherding SOP draft + 1.4.4 Improvement of debugging procedure pages o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Theming Constantine o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 9 Security Advisories o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Enterprise Management Tools List # 1.7.1.1 Remote virt-manager VM Wizard + 1.7.2 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.2.1 F12 Feature: Host Information # 1.7.2.2 libguestfs Super-minimized Appliance # 1.7.2.3 A guest fish in the pipes + 1.7.3 Libvirt List # 1.7.3.1 Safe PCI Device Passthrough # 1.7.3.2 VMware ESX driver status update - Fedora Weekly News Issue 182 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 182[1] for the week ending June 28, 2009. Here are a few highlights from this week's issue. By request, we've returned to including the contents at the top of the issue. Please let us know what you think! Announcements starts us off with updates on recent Fedora elections. Hot on the heels of the release of Fedora 11, the codename for Fedora 12 has already been chosen -- read inside for details. From the Fedora Planet, lots of great updates from the recent FUDCon in Berlin, as well as many updates from Fedora contributors. In Ambassador news, details from the recent Fedora 11 launch party from the NaLUG (Napoli GNU/Linux Users Group). In Quality Assurance news, many updates on Fedora 12 development, including discussion of improving debugging procedure pages, rawhide acceptance plan, bugzapper updates, and much more. Much interesting discussion in the Design beat this week on thinking around themes for Fedora 12 based on the release name. In Security Advisories, we're brought up to date with this week's software patches for Fedora 9, 10 and 11. This week's issue rounds out with updates from virtualization activities, with detail work on a libguestfs 'Super-minimized Appliance', VMWare ESX driver status, and much more! Enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue182 2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Elections --- Tom Callaway, Mike McGrath, and Dennis Gilmore were elected to the Fedora Board[1]. Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal, Kevin Fenzi, Kevin Kofler, and Dennis Gilmore were elected[2] to the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. 1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00014.html 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00015.html --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- The code name for Fedora 12 is "Constantine"[1]. 1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00017.html --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * 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#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29 2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. ↑ http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Joseph Smidt requested[1] that all Linux distributions report bugs upstream: "Now, as
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Contents 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 183 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora Elections 1.1.2 Upcoming Events 1.2 Planet Fedora 1.2.1 General 1.3 QualityAssurance 1.3.1 Test Days 1.3.2 Weekly meetings 1.3.3 Test Day survey results 1.4 Artwork 1.4.1 New Request System for the Design Team 1.4.2 A Custom Blog Aggregator 1.5 Security Advisories 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories 1.5.3 Fedora 9 Security Advisories -- Fedora Weekly News Issue 183 -- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 183[1] for the week ending July 5, 2009. Here are a few highlights from this week's issue. This week is a lighter issue as many of our writers are enjoying some vacation. In announcements, news that Josh Boyer has been appointed to the final Fedora Board seat. From the Fedora Planet, photo collections from the recent FUDCon Berlin, installing Fedora alongside Vista, and much more. In Quality Assurance news, details on the upcoming Fit and Finish project focusing on display configuration, more details on the AutoQA activities with rawhide, bugzappers weekly log, and more. In Design news, a new ticketed request system for Ambassadors' request to the design team, and details on a new custom blog aggregator, to create a .planet file just for the Art team. This week's issue completes with security advisory roundup for Fedora 9, 10, and 11. Enjoy this week's issue! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com<mailto:fedora-news-l...@redhat.com> FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue183 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join --- Announcements --- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events Fedora Elections Last week, we announced that Tom Callaway, Mike McGrath, and Dennis Gilmore were elected to the Fedora Board[1]. This week, Paul Frields announced that Josh Boyer had been appointed to fill the final open Fedora Board seat. Said Frields, "Josh is well known around the Fedora community for his work with release engineering and many other development-oriented groups, as well as his past work with FESCo and as a maintainer of Fedora on PPC architecture." As we reported last week, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal, Kevin Fenzi, Kevin Kofler, and Dennis Gilmore were elected[2] to the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00014.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00015.html Upcoming Events Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! North America (NA)[1] Central & South America (LATAM)[2] Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 --- Planet Fedora --- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin http://planet.fedoraproject.org General FUDCon wound to a close, and Nicu Buceli and Joerg Simon posted[1][2] some goodbye photos. Daniel Walsh asked[3] (but more importantly, answered) the question "How do I tell if an access was added in the latest policy release?" using the sesearch and audit2why tools from SELinux. Dave Jones suggested[4] that unreleased kernels could use some extra testing love. "Producing RPM builds of the rawhide kernel for our already released Fedoras...What I’m toying with doing is some devel kernels for Fedora 11 that are built outside of the Fedora build system." John Babich explained[5] how to install Fedora along-side Vista. Adam Williamson described[6] the new policies around the "severity" and "priority" fields in Fedora's Bugzilla. Additionally, Adam has been working "to improve and create pages dedicated to explaining how to debug issues in particular components, and how to provide appropriate information when filing bugs on those components" as well as a project called Fit and Finish[7] "to work on the small details that make a polished desktop experience." Adam John Miller wrote[8] about Firefox and "The progression of popularity and the stigma of the Geek." The post covers the evolution of Netscape to
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 185 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Event in Tripura, India + 1.3.2 Get on the map + 1.3.3 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 F12 Alpha blocker bug review meeting + 1.4.4 Updated list of components for priority triage + 1.4.5 Xfce spin testing + 1.4.6 What to do with Fedora 11 target bugs + 1.4.7 QA meeting time/date adjustment + 1.4.8 Anaconda triage project progress + 1.4.9 Bugzilla semantics debate o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Schedule for Fedora 12 + 1.5.2 Wallpapers o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Enterprise Management Tools List # 1.6.1.1 Good Bye to ET-Mgmt-Tools List + 1.6.2 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.2.1 Virtual Machine Disk Setup Tips + 1.6.3 Libguestfs List # 1.6.3.1 New Release libguestfs 1.0.59 # 1.6.3.2 New Hypervisor Migration Tool virt-v2v + 1.6.4 Libvirt List # 1.6.4.1 Split RPC Dispatching from Remote API Handlers # 1.6.4.2 Allow QEMU VMs to be Run Unprivileged # 1.6.4.3 cgroups Support in QEMU Driver # 1.6.4.4 Experimental Tunnelled Migration - Fedora Weekly News Issue 185 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 185[1] for the week ending July 19, 2009. Highlights from this week's issue include an overview of feature details for Fedora 12 (Constantine) in our Announcements beat, followed by news from all over the Fedora Planet, including instructions on how to install Chromium (the open source version of Google's Chrome browser) on Fedora, thoughts on the Association for Competitive Technology's recent accusations against the European Commission "of having a bias in favor of open source", and a review of Hannah Montana Linux, along with much more. This week's Ambassadors beat features an event report from Tripura, India and highlights the worldwide Fedora Ambassador map -- find your closest Ambassadors! The Quality Assurance beat features details on the second upcoming Fit and Finish Test Day, to focus on power management and suspend/resume in Fedora with opportunities to participate in the testing. Also a review of this past week's meetings, Fedora 12 bug blocker review and Fedora 11 bug triage. The Art beat this week features details on the Fedora 12 design schedule and also more detail on wallpaper development that FWN has reported on in recent weeks. This week's issue rounds out with much Fedora virtualization news goodness, including details on transition from the Enterprise Management Tools lists, some very helpful Fedora virtual machine disk setup tips, and details of new versions of libguestfs and virt-v2v. This is but a sampling of this week's content and we hope you enjoy this week's issue! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, tentatively called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue185 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- The main topic on the announcement lists this past week was Fedora 12's feature process. John Poelstra[1] sent out several emails about features. An initial note[2] was sent on July 14th listing feature pages that were in need of an update, and that list included 15 features. On July 16th, a second email was sent, requesting that the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee drop the features[3] that had not been updated. The list of 15 had by this point been narrowed down to only 5, meaning that 2/3 of the features were updated as requested. By July 17th, all but 3 of the 15 features had been updated[4]. As
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 186 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General + 1.1.2 POSSE Roundup o 1.2 QualityAssurance + 1.2.1 Test Days + 1.2.2 Weekly meetings + 1.2.3 F12 Alpha blocker bug review meeting + 1.2.4 Xfce spin testing + 1.2.5 KDE QA tester request + 1.2.6 Bugzilla semantics debate o 1.3 Translation + 1.3.1 F12 Translation Team Schedule Proposal + 1.3.2 Translation Quick Start Guide Updated + 1.3.3 Publican Version of Minor Fedora Documents Made Available + 1.3.4 New Members in FLP o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Evaluating the Gallery + 1.4.2 A Small Icon Request + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Theming Progress o 1.5 Virtualization + 1.5.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.5.1.1 New Release libguestfs 1.0.64 # 1.5.1.2 Swap Use in Guests # 1.5.1.3 Clustering libvirt Hosts + 1.5.2 Virtualization Tools List # 1.5.2.1 Virtual Machine Cloning # 1.5.2.2 Virt Manager UI Rework # 1.5.2.3 Support for Processor Affinity # 1.5.2.4 Virt What? - Fedora Weekly News Issue 186 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 186[1] for the week ending July 26, 2009. In this week's issue, we begin with news from the Fedora Planet, including tips on running Fedora 11 on an Intel Mac, tethering Fedora 11 to an iPhone, and another in the series of XI2 Recipes. Quality Assurance reports on last week's Fit and Finish test day on power management and suspend/resume, as well as much detail on QA-related weekly meetings. Translation brings us detail of the Fedora 12 Translation Schedule, a new Translation Quick Start Guide, as well as new Publican version of some Fedora documentation In Artwork/Design news, testing details of the new gallery and an update on Fedora 12 theming, amongst other topics. This issue rounds out with Fedora virtualization goodness, including details on new versions of libguestfs, virt-what and redesigns of the virt-manager UI, as well as details on how to cluster libvirt hosts. We hope you enjoy this week's FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue186 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Greg DeKoenigsberg responded[1] to slashdot[2] to correct what Nicholas Negroponte actually said regarding the Sugar UI and OLPC. "But what we did...was we had Sugar do the power management, we had Sugar do the wireless management -- it became sort of an omelet. The Bios talked directly with Sugar, so Sugar became a bit of a mess. It should have been much cleaner, like the way they offer [it] on a stick now." Jef Spaleta was excited[3] by the news that all of Launchpad has finally been open sourced by Canonical. Harish Pillay questioned[4] Microsoft's true motives behind contributing GPL patches to the Linux kernel. Martin Sourada quoted[5] Linus' response to the general feeling of hatred toward Microsoft in the Linux community. Daniel Walsh explained[6] how the SELinux "unconfined" domain works. Peter Hutterer added[7] part 5 to the XI2 Recipes series, explaining "grabs" and part 6[8], showing examples dealing with the client pointer. Steven Moix provided[9] a few tips for natively running Fedora 11 on an Intel Mac. Jesse Keating described[10] how to tether an iPhone to Fedora over bluetooth, for a truly wires-free internet experience. 1. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/52052.html 2. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1628228/Negroponte-Sees-Sugar-As-OLPCs-Biggest-Mistake?art_pos=3 3. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/45216.html 4. http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/162161.html 5. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/true-meaning-of-open.html 6. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/30084.html 7. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/07/xi2-recipes-part-5.html 8. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/07/xi2-recipes-part-6.html 9. http://www.alphatek.info/2009/07/22/natively-run-fedora-11-on-an-intel-mac/ 10. http://jkeating.livejournal.com/75270.html --- POSSE Roundup --- The Professors Open Source Summer Experience[1] just finished its Summer 2009 session, and here is a roundup of some of the Planet posts from the event. * http://gregdek.livejournal.com/52300.html * http://blog.melchua.com/2009/07/21/posse-monday-how-seneca-got-involved/ * http://blog.melchua.com/2009/07/21/posse-monday-helping-students-find-proje
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 187 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Fedora at the Congress of Free Software in Caracas, Venezuela + 1.3.2 Get on the map + 1.3.3 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.4 Quality Assurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Benchmarking discussion + 1.4.4 Test Day live image creation + 1.4.5 Fedora 12 Alpha test compose delay o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Docbook-locales Added to translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.5.2 Installation Quick Start Guide Added to translation.fedoraproject.org + 1.5.3 Fedora 12 Release Notes and Translation Team Schedule Discussion + 1.5.4 New Translated Builds for Translation Quick Start Guide + 1.5.5 Czech Version of Fedora 11 Release Notes Published + 1.5.6 New Members in FLP o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Theming Fedora 12 Alpha + 1.6.2 A Small Icon Request + 1.6.3 Laser Cut Logo o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.1.1 Distributing I/O Load Among Guests + 1.7.2 Virtualization Tools List # 1.7.2.1 New Release virt-manager 0.8.0 # 1.7.2.2 New Release virtinst 0.500.0 # 1.7.2.3 New Release virt-viewer 0.2.0 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 187[1] for the week ending August 2, 2009. This week's issue kicks off with updated details on the Fedora 12 (Constantine) schedule, including an update on feature set scheduled for this week. From the Fedora Planet, tips on how to create your own system branding when building Fedora, lots of detail on debugging random screen blanking in Fedora, and thoughts on why to hate quick software benchmarking. From the Quality Assurance team, details from a discussion around Phoronix's Linux distribution benchmarking in relation to Fedora, fixes to the Test Day live image, and many updates on the weekly meetings related to QA. In Ambassador news, a report from the Congress of Free Software in Caracas, Venezuela and the Venezuela Fedora Team's presence there. In translation news, several updates to translation.fedoraproject.org, details on the Fedora 12 Translation schedule, and new translations for the Quick Start Guide in eighteen different languages. From the Art team, updates on theming Fedora 12 Alpha and details on cutting the Fedora logo on a steel plate. This week issue comes to a finale with news on virtualization, including discussion of how to distribute I/O load across guests, and details on new releases of virt-manager, virtinst, and virt-viewer. These are just a few highlights of this week's FWN. Enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue187 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack If anyone is interested in taking over this beat, please contact the Fedora News[4] team. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events 4. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- John Poelstra[1] has made several important announcements related to the ongoing development of Fedora 12. On July 28th, John wrote[2] about the upcoming Fedora 12 schedule[3] deadlines. The complete Fedora 12 schedule that John maintains is incredibly detailed and serves as a model for any group or project that is looking to produce results on a deadline. On July 31st, a request for feature updates[4] landed. See the list included in the link. John wrote, "According to a review of all the feature pages, the following features have not been updated recently or are not 100% complete. Please update them no later than Wednesday, August 6, 2009." 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra 2. http://www.redhat.com/
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 188 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 General + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.3 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-07-04 + 1.3.2 Marketing F12 schedule + 1.3.3 Fedora Insight + 1.3.4 Marketing leadership transition o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 New Module RHEL-comps Added to translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.2 FLP Representation in F-12 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting + 1.4.3 Priority of Fedora Documentation for Translation + 1.4.4 Proposal for Translation of docs.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.5 Transifex v0.7 to be Available Soon + 1.4.6 Translation of Multimedia menus for Fedora Studio + 1.4.7 Missing Translations for Policycoreutils-gui in Fedora 11 o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Wallpapers + 1.5.2 A Design Spin? + 1.5.3 Constantine Banners - Fedora Weekly News Issue 188 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 188[1] for the week ending August 9, 2009. This week's issue begins with some detail on the recent Fedora Classroom events, and updates on Fedora 12 alpha. In news from the Fedora Planet, a multi-part series on OCaml internals, a few proposals for a new Fedora website design, and coverage of a session on Sanskrit and usage in computing. We're pleased to bring news from the Fedora Marketing team back to you with a new beat member, Mel Chua. In Marketing news, pointers to the latest team meeting log, details about Fedora Insight, and a transition of leadership on the Marketing Team. In Quality Assurance news, details of the upcoming Test Day on NetworkManager, many updates on the weekly meetings and availability of a new Xfce spin for testing. In Translation news, many updates on the progress to Fedora 12 Alpha translation items, a proposal to translate some more pages from docs.fedoraproject.org and the landing of Transifex v0.7, a tool used by the localization teams. This week's issue rounds out with news from the Art/Design team, with more progress on Fedora 12 wallpapers for the F12 Alpha release, and coverage of a discussion about a Design Spin on the Art Team discussion list. These are just a few highlights of this week's FWN. Enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue188 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack If anyone is interested in taking over this beat, please contact the Fedora News[4] team. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events 4. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list --- General --- Luke Macken[1] announced[2] an update to the Fedora Community[3] codebase. The changes make Fedora Community able to process information from EPEL, and also provide a variety of other bugfixes and enhancements. Kevin Fenzi[4] summarized[5] the recent Fedora Classroom sessions that have taken place. The classes have included introductions to rsync, to Koji (Fedora's build system), XFCE, and PreUpgrade. Fedora Classroom continues to be a wonderful source of information, and we encourage all Fedora users and contributors to either attend or teach a class. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lmacken 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg3.html 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg2.html --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- Jesse Keating[1] announced the Fedora 12 Alpha freeze[2] on August 4th. John Poelstra[3] continued the public announcements related to the finalizing of Fedora 12 features. This week, feature pages that had not been updated were flagged for review and potential dropping from the release[4]. If you are a Fedora 12 feature owner, you should check to make sure that your features are up to date. 1. https://fedoraprojec
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 189 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-11 + 1.2.2 Marketing F12 schedule available + 1.2.3 Deploying zikula for Fedora Insight + 1.2.4 Welcome to our new contributors o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Fedora 11 Release Events Contest winners announced + 1.3.2 Get on the map + 1.3.3 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Alpha blocker bug reviews o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Schedule for Translation and Documentation Updated + 1.5.2 TQSG Pushed for 4 Languages o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Meeting Summary + 1.6.2 The Art Studio Spin + 1.6.3 Source Control for Fedora Themes o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Xen List # 1.7.1.1 New Upstream Xen Release # 1.7.1.2 Updated Dom0 Test Kernel + 1.7.2 Libguestfs List # 1.7.2.1 New Release libguestfs 1.0.67 + 1.7.3 Libvirt List # 1.7.3.1 New Release libvirt 0.7.0 - Fedora Weekly News Issue 189 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 189[1] for the week ending August 16, 2009. In this week's issue, an update on the progress of Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release gets us started in Announcements. Our Marketing beat is offered by a new beat writer, Chaitanya Mehandru, who reports on the latest happenings with the Marketing Team, including an update on zikula deployment for Fedora Insight. In Ambassador news, an announcement of the three winners of the Fedora 11 release events contest, from three different regions of the globe. Quality Assurance offers detail on several past and upcoming Test Days and weekly meetings, and updates on Fedora 12 bug blockers. In news from the Translation Team this week, updates on the Fedora 12 release schedule as it pertains to translation and documentation, and announcement of the Translation Quick Start Guide in Russian, Polish, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese. The Art/Design Team beat this week leads with a summary of discussion on the Fedora 12 theme meeting, followed by a report on the initial work in creating an Art Studio Fedora spin and rounds out with a discussion on the need for source control for Fedora Themes. Our issue rounds out with updates from the various virtualization communities and teams, including the availability of new Xen packages for Fedora for testing, and details on libguestfs 1.0.67 and libvirt 0.7.0 and their new features. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue189 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack If anyone is interested in taking over this beat, please contact the Fedora News[4] team. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events 4. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- The only major news this week was the slip of Fedora 12 Alpha by one week[1]. Jesse Keating wrote, "This is due to remaining bugs on the F12Alpha tracker preventing creation of a release candidate and preventing testing of proposed fixes. We expect to be able to test/clear the list early this week, therefor only a week slip is needed at this time. The new Alpha release date August 25th." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg6.html --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * 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#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. http://
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o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 + 1.1.3 Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft + 1.1.4 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-18 + 1.2.2 Alpha readiness meeting + 1.2.3 Fedora Insight updates o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 NetworkManager Test Day report + 1.3.4 Alpha release candidates + 1.3.5 DeltaISOs for Alpha test builds + 1.3.6 Test Day live image creation guide updates + 1.3.7 Daily Rawhide live spins available o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Updated Translation Schedule for Fedora 12 + 1.4.2 Ticket Filed with FESCo for Test Packages + 1.4.3 Freeze Break for comps and initscripts + 1.4.4 New Members/Coordinators in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Design and the Schedule + 1.5.2 A New Icon Artist in the Team o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Fedora Virtualization Status + 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.6.2.1 Dom0 Kernel Status - Fedora Weekly News Issue 190 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 190[1] for the week ending August 23, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue kicks off with an announcement of the next FUDCon, to be held in Toronto, Canada, in early December, along with update on the Fedora 12 release schedule. In Marketing news, Fedora Insight will be launched along with the Fedora 12 beta timeframe, and a test version of zikula is now available. Highlights from the most recent Test day and Fit and Finish meeting, along with much detail on work towards Fedora 12 is covered in the Quality Assurance beat. In Translation news, updates from the Fedora Localization Project, including new FLP members, freeze break requests for comps and initscripts, as well as updated Fedora 12 translation schedule. In Art/Design news, coverage of recent discussion on design schedule, generally speaking. Also news of a new icon artist who has joined the Design team. Our issue rounds out with virtualization news, with updates on Fedora virtualization for Fedora 12, and also detail on recent discussion regarding the Dom0 kernel under Xen on Fedora 11. We hope you enjoy this issue of FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue190 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- The only major news this week was "Updated Fedora 12 Schedule--Final Release Date 2009-11-10"[1]. On another announcement, John Poelstra mentioned, "The Alpha Release of Fedora 12 is scheduled for public availability one week from today on Tuesday, August 25, 2009. As a result of our announcements around this release many journalists and other people curious to find out what's on the way for Fedora 12 will come to read your feature page."[2] The new Alpha release date is August 25, 2009[3]." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg9.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg8.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule --- Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 --- Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields has announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 on December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus. In his announcement he says, "Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of our ardent fans and friends in the Fedora community in the great nation of Canada, we are heading across the border for the next North American Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)! The next FUDCon will happen December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus."[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-Augus
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 191 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 early branch now available + 1.1.3 Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic + 1.1.4 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-25 + 1.2.2 F12 Beta release + 1.2.3 Site Redesigns + 1.2.4 Fedora Insight updates o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 ABRT Test Day report o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Transifex v0.7 'Pyro' Released + 1.4.2 New Modules for Translation + 1.4.3 String Freeze Break Request for desktop-effects + 1.4.4 Priority of Packages Available for Translation + 1.4.5 New Members in Fedora Localization Project o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Alpha Banner + 1.5.2 Download Survey - Fedora Weekly News Issue 191 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 191[1] for the week ending August 30, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We kick off this week's issue with the latest news on the Fedora 12 Alpha release from this past Tuesday, as well as detail on the upcoming Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss conference in Brno, Czech Republic. News from the Marketing team includes logs of the recent weekly meeting, Fedora 12 talking points development, and a Fedora Insight update. In Quality Assurance news, detail from last week's Test Day, on Dracut, and the next Test Day this week on Sugar on a Stick. Also much detail on this week's QA meetings, and reporting on the ABRT Test Day. In Translation news, detail on a new version of Transifex, and coverage of some discussion of the prioritization of packages available for translation. News from the Design team includes a new Fedora 12 Alpha banner and news on a Fedora survey aimed to improve the usability of the Fedora download pages. These are just a few items from this week's FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue191 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release --- The breaking news of the week was "the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release" [1] on Tue, 25 Aug 2009. "What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can help test.", says Fedora Release Engineering team leader Jesse Keating. On her brief announcement[2], she mentioned about the beta version of F12[3], the due date of the final release of Fedora 12, the top features for end users (i.e.: Better webcam support, Empathy as default IM client, GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3,Network Manager Mobile Broadband, Better Free Video Codec, PackageKit improvements, PulseAudio improvements, Better power management, etc [4]), and the release notes for further queries[5]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg9.html 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes --- Fedora 12 early branch now available --- "For those of you that wish to separate Fedora 12 stabalization work from future development, we are now ready to process branch requests for F-12." says Jesse Keating on Fedora development announcement[1]. To request a branch, please continue to use the cvsadmin request method[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00010.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure --- Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic --- Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic on September 10th and 11th[1]. Radek Vokál, Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno, has noted on his announcement, "Conference is bringing presentations and hackfest sessions/hands-on labs for skilled users, admins, Linux and Java developers. The list of presentations has several interesting topics, mostly covered be people directly involved in upstream development." While talking about the plan, he has said, "The
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o 1.1 Announcements o 1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.2.1 The Fedora Project and IPv6 + 1.2.2 Licensing policy for apps developed by Fedora Infrastructure now in effect + 1.2.3 Upcoming Events o 1.3 Planet Fedora + 1.3.1 General o 1.4 Marketing + 1.4.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-01 + 1.4.2 Release deliverables + 1.4.3 Briefing Ambassadors about F12 + 1.4.4 Fedora Insight updates + 1.4.5 Marketing-fu++ + 1.4.6 Marketing Research + 1.4.7 Fedora print magazine proposed o 1.5 Ambassadors + 1.5.1 Registration opens for Utah Open Source Conference + 1.5.2 Fedora at free software workshop at KLN Madurai + 1.5.3 Get on the map + 1.5.4 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.6 QualityAssurance + 1.6.1 Test Days + 1.6.2 Weekly meetings + 1.6.3 Zsync feasibility + 1.6.4 Installation testing SOP update + 1.6.5 Test Day summaries + 1.6.6 Mediawiki Semantic plugin testing o 1.7 Translation + 1.7.1 Transifex Version Upgrade on translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.7.2 Translations for Transifex Moved to www.transifex.net + 1.7.3 RPM Module Removed + 1.7.4 New Members in Fedora Localization Project o 1.8 Artwork + 1.8.1 A Chilean Logo o 1.9 Virtualization + 1.9.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.9.1.1 KSM Tuning Service # 1.9.1.2 Host Iptables Settings for Bridged Guests + 1.9.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.9.2.1 Xen Domain0 Kernels - Fedora Weekly News Issue 192 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 192[1] for the week ending September 6, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with announcements, including news that major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project infrastructure now support IPv6, and details of a new licensing policy for apps developed by the Fedora infrastructure team. News from Planet Fedora is back in this issue, covering interesting posts and commentary from the Fedora blogosphere. In marketing news, coverage of the major marketing deliverables for releases, and how Fedora Ambassadors can assist with F12 marketing, along with an exciting proposal for a Fedora special issue of Linux Pro Magazine that is being considered. In Ambassador news, details on the upcoming Utah Open Source Conference and a report from a free software workshop at KLN Madurai. In Quality Assurance news, updates from recent Test Days and Fit and Finish test days, along with all the week's news of team meetings. The Translation beat provides us with various Transifex-related updates coming soon. In Design news, a request for a logo for a Fedora Chilean event. Our issue completes with a variety of virtualization-related news, including new Fedora 12 features, and future developments to the Xen dom0 kernels. Enjoy FWN 192! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue192 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- The Fedora Project and IPv6 The top news of the week was the Fedora Project and IPv6 by Fedora Infrastructure Lead and project coordinator Mike McGrath. Mike had announced [1] that as part of the constant effort toward supporting current and future standards, major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project infrastructure now support IPv6. He also mentioned, "our self-hosted websites have already been converted, and we plan to include IPv6 GeoIP support in MirrorManager soon." Mike extended special thanks to Matt Domsch from Dell and our friends at ibiblio.org for their invaluable assistance on behalf of the Fedora Project. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
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1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 193 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Board IRC Public meeting + 1.1.2 Help with Fedora Research + 1.1.3 New entry of Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction + 1.1.4 FUDCon Toronto 2009 update! + 1.1.5 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-01 + 1.3.2 Call for F12 slogan ideas + 1.3.3 Passing on the Fedora print magazine proposal for the time being + 1.3.4 Fedora Insight update + 1.3.5 Help wanted: Getting Fedora in the news + 1.3.6 Fedora in the News + 1.3.7 Marketing HOWTO: Creating press releases + 1.3.8 Marketing Research o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Test Day live spin o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Translation deadline and Review Package Build Request + 1.5.2 Freeze Break for imsettings + 1.5.3 Issue Related to gnome-system-monitor Resolved + 1.5.4 New Members in Fedora Localization Project o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 F12 Wallpaper Refresh o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.1.1 Fedora Virt Status # 1.7.1.2 Fedora 12 Virtualization Release Notes - Fedora Weekly News Issue 193 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 193[1] for the week ending September 13, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements, an invitation to the Fedora community to participate in research at Duke University on open source communities and an update on this December's FUDCon Toronto. A variety of recent postings from Fedora contributors follows in the Planet Fedora section. In marketing news, a call for Fedora 12 slogan ideas, update on weekly meetings and Zikula/Fedora Insight developments, and coverage of recent discussion aimed at getting Fedora into news channels to a greater extent. This week's QA news includes detail of the most recent Test Day activities around graphics card support, and coverage of this week's meetings. In translation news, more updates on Fedora 12 translation activities, and new Localization Project members from Spain. In Art news, a refresh of Fedora 12 wallpapers. This week's issue rounds out with Fedora Virtualization updates, including details on Fedora virt status and F12 virtualization release notes. Please enjoy FWN 193! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue193 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events TOP MOST Announcements and Fedora 12 (Constantine) are as follows: --- Fedora Board IRC Public meeting --- "The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode.", announced[1] Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields. For this meeting, the public was invited to join the IRC channels #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation and #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and to post questions. While inviting everyone, Paul also expressed, "The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg1.html --- Help with Fedora Research --- Greg DeKoenigsberg, Senior Community Architect at Red Hat announced [1] , "we're looking for Fedora contributors who are willing to do one of two things: 1. Participate in an email interview with our Duke professors; or 2. Participate in a short phone interview (about 20 minutes) with our Duke professors." Greg also explored about the participation of contributors. He expressed, "It's a simple thing that could be hugely valuable in the long run. We've got something special in Fedora, and
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 194 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-15 + 1.2.2 F12 Talking points + 1.2.3 F12 release slogan selection + 1.2.4 Fedora Insight update + 1.2.5 Marketing Research o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Pre-beta install testing + 1.3.4 Intel graphics information request + 1.3.5 Graphics test week recap o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Behind the Schedule + 1.4.2 DIY Media Sleeve o 1.5 Virtualization + 1.5.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.5.1.1 Virtualization Test Day + 1.5.2 Libvirt List # 1.5.2.1 New Release libvirt 0.7.1 # 1.5.2.2 New Release perl-Sys-Virt 0.2.2 # 1.5.2.3 Guest Sound Over VNC o 1.6 KDE + 1.6.1 Live image dependencies: breaking libcanberra-gtk2 dependency + 1.6.2 KDE 4.3.1 pushed to Stable + 1.6.3 Post 4.3.1 fixes + 1.6.4 New KDE Applications - Fedora Weekly News Issue 194 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 194[1] for the week ending September 20, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week we welcome a brand new beat by Ryan Rix on KDE developments in Fedora! In news from the Fedora Planet, news, views and innovations from Fedora community members. The Quality Assurance beat this week provides details from last week's various graphics tests, audio and virtualization Test Days, along with detailed summaries of the QA weekly meetings, Bugzappers and other regular activities. In Art/Design news, discussion around the desire for a "do it yourself" media sleeve, and updates on the Fedora 12 schedule for the team. In virtualization news, updates on the recent virtualization Test Day, and details of new versions of libvirt, perl-Sys-Virt, and coverage of recent discussion about guest sound over VNC. Our first KDE beat features news of KDE 4.3.1 hitting Fedora updates and some post-release fixes, news on several new KDE applications, and coverage of work of the KDE SIG team this past week. That rounds out this week's issue of Fedora Weekly News, which we hope you enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue194 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Lennart Poettering wrote[1] a mutex profiler called mutrace. "When naively profiling multi-threaded applications the time spent waiting for mutexes is not necessarily visible in the generated output. However lock contention can have a big impact on the runtime behaviour of applications...To improve the situation if have now written a mutex profiler called mutrace." Way back in May, Daniel Walsh introduced[2] the SELinux sandbox. "As soon as I released it, I received email asking if it could be used to sandbox Acroread, and I had to say 'Sorry, it can't do that'."[3]. But now it can. It can even be used to sandbox Firefox[4]. Josh Boyer shared[5] an amusing anecdote about running wires with his two-year-old son. Who knew that patch cables could be so much fun? Mel Chua asked[6] for "I use Fedora" stories from the community. "Write up your story about using Fedora, the stories of your friends and the people you’ve introduced Fedora to". Michael DeHaan quickly built[7] a lab of 85 machines in Chicago for the Red Hat Summit, using cobbler (did I mention that version 2.0 was just released?[8]). Similarly, Jeroen van Meeuwen mentioned[9] that puppetmanaged.org is available, comprising "a collection of modules for Puppet", the "system for automating system administration tasks". Máirín Duffy finished[10] a set of mockups for the Fedora Project's Spins page. 1. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/mutrace.html 2. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html 3. http://danwalsh.livejour
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 195 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 New channel on freenode called #fedora-fad + 1.1.2 All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze (2009-09-29) + 1.1.3 GraphicsMagick-1.3.x for F-11 (ABI change) + 1.1.4 Announcing Fedora 12 Snapshot 3 + 1.1.5 Updating libchamplain to 0.4.0 + 1.1.6 Fedora 12 Mass Branching coming soon + 1.1.7 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General + 1.2.2 FAD EMEA 2009 Links Roundup o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-22 + 1.3.2 F12 Talking points + 1.3.3 Matchmaking for Feature Profile interviews + 1.3.4 Fedora Insight status + 1.3.5 Marketing Research + 1.3.6 Coming up next o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Utah Open Source Conference is coming + 1.4.2 Get on the map + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 is coming o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Weekly meetings + 1.5.3 Fedora 12 Beta Test compose + 1.5.4 Bug resolution discussion o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Mosaic Polish - Fedora Weekly News Issue 195 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 195[1] for the week ending September 27, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Kicking off this week's issue in announcements, a new IRC channel for Fedora Activity Days, launched in time for the next upcoming FAD in Germany, and updates on feature freeze for Fedora 12 beta this week, along with other related updates. From the Fedora Planet, postings and views from Fedora contributors worldwide, and a collection of FAD EMEA related links. In marketing news, Fedora 12 talking points, Fedora Insight status and other current activities. In ambassadors, details of the upcoming Utah Open Source Conference, and activities Ambassadors can do for Fedora 12. The Quality Assurance beat this week brings up up-to-date on weekly meeting and Test Day activities, as well as Fedora 12 beta related work. This issue rounds out with news from the Art/Design team, providing detail on the mosaic polish for the Fedora 12 theme. That rounds out this week's issue of Fedora Weekly News, which we hope you enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue194 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events THE BREAKING news (Fedora 12 (Constantine) related) are as follows: --- New channel on freenode called #fedora-fad --- Gerold Kassube announced[1] the new IRC-Channel #fedora-fad which is opened right now for everybody to attend a FAD (== Fedora Activity Day) online. Gerold mentioned, “I created that channel, because of some people asked (also in the past) about who cann't attend a FAD. The next FAD in EMEA takes place (again and by tradition) in Rheinfelden, Germany on the next weekend [2]. ” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg6.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2009 --- All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze (2009-09-29) --- John Poelstra had explicitly announced[1] that All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze by Tuesday, September 29th, 2009. Beta Freeze [2] means that all features and their associated feature pages must be at 100% completion by this date. The following features are currently not 100% complete and need to be by Tuesday, September 29, 2009. In many cases it appears they are just 1% away. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] Poel also mentioned, “I will raise feature pages not at 100% at FESCo's meeting on October 2, 2009. Hopefully my job will be easy and there there won't be any.” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg8.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayPort 4. http
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Many thanks. This was caught and corrected (on the wiki) shortly after the issue went out. Best regards, - pascal - Original Message - From: fedora-news-list-boun...@redhat.com To: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com Cc: fedora-announce-list@redhat.com Sent: Tue Sep 29 12:20:55 2009 Subject: Re: Fedora Weekly News 195 On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:36 -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote: > FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson > > 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue194 > 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join > > -- Announcements -- Small fix, the FWN URL should be: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue195 - Gilboa ___ Fedora-news-list mailing list fedora-news-l...@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
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o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2009-10-01 + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Final Review of Incomplete Fedora 12 Features # 1.1.2.2 Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 12 Freeze at 0600~ 2009-09-30 UTC # 1.1.2.4 Re: CVS Outage Notification - 2009-09-29 04:25 UTC + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Blocker bug criteria + 1.3.4 Beta test compose Delta ISOs + 1.3.5 Xfce Test Day recap + 1.3.6 Wiki Test Results name space + 1.3.7 Proposed removal of Anaconda from Test Day CDs + 1.3.8 Installation testing results o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Beta Artwork + 1.4.2 Wallpapers Extras + 1.4.3 A New Notification Theme o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Fedora virt status # 1.6.1.2 New Tools virt-rescue and virt-edit + 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.6.2.1 xen/master: pvops git trees rearranged o 1.7 KDE + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 KDE Spin Not KDE3-less after all + 1.7.2 KDE-SIG steering committee formed + 1.7.3 Amarok 2.2 released Fedora Weekly News Issue 196 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 196[1] for the week ending October 4, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Starting off with announcements, which includes general, development and event announcements, notice that minutes from last week's Fedora Board open meeting are now available, an update on Fedora 12 milestones, and an upcoming change in NFS. From the Fedora Planet, news and views from Fedora contributors. In Quality Assurance news, review of the latest Test Day on Anaconda's storage system, and detail from the team's weekly meetings, and several other activities. In Design news, details of the Art Team's work for the F12 beta release, an update on additional wallpapers, and discussion of a new notification theme on the list. The Security Advisory beat is back this week, with updates for the past few weeks for Fedora 10 and 11. The Virtualization list offers goodness on Fedora virtualization developments including new virt-rescue and virt-edit tools, and reorganization of the Xen git tree for the dom0 kernel. Our issue wraps up with news from the KDE SIG, including details on the expected feature set for Fedora 12 KDE spin and a new version of Amarok, "Sunjammer. We hope you enjoy this week's FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue196 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2009-10-01 Paul W. Frields announced,"The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, October 1, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode.[1]." A copy of the meeting minutes is also now available[2] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg9.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2009-10-01/fedora-board-meeting.2009-10-01-16.03.html --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS --- Final Review of Incomplete Fedora 12 Features John Poelstra announced,[1] "With the passing of Beta Freeze we are now at the point in our release process where we expect a
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o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 Docs preparing to convert to Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license # 1.1.1.2 Resignation of Josh Boyer from FESCo + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 12 Final Release Date Rescheduled to 2009-11-17 # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 12 Beta Release Rescheduled to 2009-10-20 # 1.1.2.3 Heads-up: rb_libtorrent bump (Rawhide), rebuilds required + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Utah Open Source Conference + 1.3.2 Get on the map + 1.3.3 Fedora 12 is coming o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Issues with docs.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.2 LiveUSB Creator Translations Not Being Used + 1.4.3 Translator Metrics + 1.4.4 Proof-reading system-config-*-docs + 1.4.5 Translation Request from Fedora Freemedia + 1.4.6 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Outreach to Font Authors + 1.5.2 Fedora Remix Logos o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.1.1 New Release virt-top 1.0.4 # 1.7.1.2 Limit VNC Access to a Single Guest - Fedora Weekly News Issue 197 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 197[1] for the week ending October 11, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Starting off with announcements, which includes general, development and event announcements, word that the Docs team will be switching to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), an update on Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) leadership, and updates on Fedora 12 milestones. In news from the Fedora Planet, selected posts from the Fedora contributor community that includes discussion on "What is Fedora?", mockups for the fedoraproject.org redesign, and discussion on virt-top. In Ambassador news, detail on the Utah Open Source Conference. Translation brings us notification of new members to the Fedora Localization Project, coverage of some discussion around docs.fedoraproject.org issues, and other issues. In Design Team news, a request for more font packagers, discussion around reuse of Fedora Remix logos, and acceptable use cases. There are a few Fedora 10 and 11 security updates in the Security Advisories beat, and the issue rounds out with virtualization news, including more detail on the new virt-top release, and limiting VNC access to a single guest. Read on, and enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue197 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- Docs preparing to convert to Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license Ian Weller announced[1], "Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our documentation and project content from the Open Publication License (OPL) to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License(CC-BY-SA). Docs originally reached a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering questions raised by the community, the Docs team decided to go ahead with the transition." Additional information can be found at the wiki[2] "We'd like to thank Tom 'spot' Callaway, Fedora's legal ninja, and Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal for their help with the conversion." said Ianweller while talking about continue working with the community and share their d
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o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 FUDCon Lodging -- IMPORTANT + 1.1.2 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.2.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 DeltaISO update + 1.3.4 Fedora 12 Beta RC2 testing o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 FLP Representation at the Beta Release Readiness Meeting + 1.4.2 Scheduled Translation Tasks for Fedora 12 + 1.4.3 Concern About Virt-manager Translation Submission + 1.4.4 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Constantine Wallpaper Extras o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 198 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 198[1] for the week ending October 18, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue begins with some updates on lodging for December's Fedora User and Developer Conference in Toronto. If you plan to attend or are considering it, be sure to read this. News from the Fedora Planet presents news and views from Fedora community members. In Quality Assurance news, details from the latest upcoming Test Days on SELinux and power management, and an invitation for Test Day proposals for Fedora 12 and 13 cycles, in addition to wonderful detail on the weekly QA meetings and team activities, and updates towards Fedora 12 beta. In translation news, details from last week's Fedora 12 beta readiness meeting, a query about the Russian translation of Fedora 12 virt-manager, and details of new Fedora Localization Project members. From the Art/Design team, details on Constantine (Fedora 12) wallpapers. Our issue wraps up this week with details on last week's security patches for Fedora 10 and 11. Enjoy FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue198 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- FUDCon Lodging -- IMPORTANT Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced [1] exclusively about the FUDCon Lodging. On his brief, he mentioned, "We've added an extra "hotel" field to the FUDCon wiki pre-registration table, on the far right.[2] If you have already booked at the hotel, please visit the wiki.If you do not need lodging, please visit the wiki. Use the following codes for the hotel booking field: Y == HAVE booked lodging NA == Not applicable, don't need/want If you have not booked, but need lodging, you don't need to do anything at this time. The FUDCon planning team will get initial roomsharing set up for people based on the responses, so please be courteous to your fellow Fedora community members by promptly responding [1][2]. Thanks. [1] If your lodging is not being funded by the Fedora Project, and you don't want to room share, that's perfectly OK. :-) Please mark the wiki comments to say "not roomsharing" in that case. [2] If you have already found a roommate, please indicate that on the wiki in your "Comments" field. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg4.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the 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 * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1.
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Fedora Weekly News Issue 199 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 Beta Roundup o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Fedora at ABLEConf in Phoenix, Arizona + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 is coming o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Fedora 12 Beta release + 1.3.4 Confined users Test Day summary + 1.3.5 Fedora 12 blocker bug review meeting o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Scheduled Translation Tasks for Fedora 12 + 1.4.2 Cracklib Translations for Anaconda + 1.4.3 FLSCo Election Proposal + 1.4.4 New Members/Maintainers in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Countdown banner + 1.5.2 Icon Emblems + 1.5.3 F12 Final Wallpaper Polish + 1.5.4 Post-Beta Changes for the Desktop Look o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.1.1 KVM and Paravirtualization # 1.7.1.2 Installing Virtio Drivers in Windows XP Setup + 1.7.2 Virtualization Tools List # 1.7.2.1 libosinfo Revisited + 1.7.3 Other Sources # 1.7.3.1 Using Kernel Samepage Merging with KVM - Fedora Weekly News Issue 199 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 199[1] for the week ending October 25, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off this week with news from the Fedora Planet community of Fedora developers and users, including thoughts on PHP security, a new tool, rpmguard, continued work on libguestfs, and a great Fedora 12 beta roundup. From Ambassadors we have an event report on ABLEConf in Phoenix, Arizona. Much goodness from the Quality Assurance beat, with updates on this past week's two Test days, detailed weekly meetings notes, and various Fedora 12 beta-related activities. In news from Fedora's Translation team, updates on milestone for Fedora 12 translation tasks, new contributors of a couple Fedora Localization Project language teams, and details on the next FLSCo election. In Art/Design news, some icon emblem work, Fedora 12 final wallpaper polish, and details on post-beta F12 desktop look changes. Security Advisories brings us up to date on a couple security releases for Fedora 10 and 11. Our issue rounds out with the always-interesting Virtualization beat, with discussion on paravirtualization and KVMs in Fedora, installing Virtio drivers in Windows XP, and details on Fedora 12's kernel samepage merging (KSM) feature. We hope you enjoy FWN 199! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue199 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Pavol Rusnak described[1] how scripts using LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be written to work in a more secure way. Konstantin Ryabitsev explained[2] the many reasons why embedding passwords in PHP scripts is a Bad Idea, and possible alternatives. Matt Domsch helped[3] get some patches integrated so that Linuxes can use embedded TPM chips to feed the entropy pool (and get better/more secure random numbers). Kamil Páral created[4] a tool, rpmguard "for checking differences between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints only important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a new package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely wrong." Richard W.M. Jones has been busy at work on libguestfs. There are a few new tools: virt-tar[5] and virt-ls[6] as well as a list[7] of current (and upcoming) virt-* tools. Richard provided some tips too, obtaining[8] the Windows version and service pack number and unpacking[9] a Mac .dmg installer. And lastly, building a supermin appliance using febootstrap: Given a Fedora appliance on a Fedora host, "Let’s strip o
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Fedora Weekly News Issue 200 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 QualityAssurance + 1.2.1 Test Days + 1.2.2 Weekly meetings + 1.2.3 Fedora 12 testing + 1.2.4 Blocker bug review + 1.2.5 Fedora 10 bug review event o 1.3 Translation + 1.3.1 Fedora Website Translations + 1.3.2 F12 GA Release Notes Branch Changes & F12 Deployment Guide Added + 1.3.3 Translation Schedule + 1.3.4 Publican 1.0 + 1.3.5 Errors displaying .po files on translate.fedoraproject.org o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Final Wallpaper for Fedora 12 + 1.4.2 Extra Wallpapers In + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Countdown Banner + 1.4.4 Looking Forward to a New Cycle + 1.4.5 Inkscape Course and Jealousy o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Fedora Virt Status # 1.6.1.2 Help testing the Windows Registry feature of libguestfs # 1.6.1.3 KSM Tuning in Fedora 12 + 1.6.2 Libvirt List # 1.6.2.1 Node device enumeration with udev # 1.6.2.2 Rewrite of QEMU monitor handling # 1.6.2.3 Libvirt QEMU driver thread safety rules - Fedora Weekly News Issue 200 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 200[1] for the week ending November 1, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Welcome to FWN issue 200, an impressive milestone! This week's issue starts off with news and views from the Fedora community, including further work on libguestfs, examination of several new features in Fedora 12, and work on a new tool for ICC color management in Gnome. In Quality Assurance, details from last week's Test Day on internationalization support in Fedora, and great updates on the various QA weekly meetings as we get closer to Fedora 12. In Translation news, several updates pertinent to Fedora 12 GA release, as well as details on Publican 1.0, which the Docs and Transaltion teams use for publishing books, articles, papers and multi-volume sets with DocBook XML. In Design news, details on the final Fedora 12 wallpapers, decisioning on extra wallpapers for the release, and some thoughts on the F12 art process looking forward to the next cycle. Security Advisories brings us current on the numerous security patches released this past week for Fedora 10 and 11. Our issue wraps up with news from the Fedora virtualization and libvirt lists, including a recent summary of Fedora virt bugs and developments, the state of KSM tuning on Fedora systems and a couple items on QEMU related issues with monitor handling and QEMU driver thread safety rules. Please enjoy Fedora Weekly News issue 200! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue200 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Martin Sourada took a look[1] at font antialiasing and what makes fonts look ugly. In a further post, Martin answered[2] the more general question "Why is my design blurry?" In the continuing journey of libguestfs Richard W.M. Jones added[3],[4],[5] support for working with the Windows registry form a Linux guest. Apparently you can also[6] mount guest filesystems on the host filesystem using FUSE (the example provided even mounts a Windows guest's NTFS filesystem to a Linux host). Tim Lauridsen demonstrated[7] a new feature of yum in Fedora 12: history, "that makes it possible to see what happened in part of a transaction and redo/undo past transactions." Paul W. Frields outlined[8] some of the new features to be found in the Fedora 12 beta. and encouraged[9] anyone who finds an issue to report it! Don't assume that someone else will have already filed a bug. Paul also reprinted[10] a posting from the Fedora Ad
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o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 CC license changeover complete # 1.1.1.2 Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting # 1.1.1.3 Announcing Fedora-Medical SIG. # 1.1.1.4 Fedora 12 now in RC freeze + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Outage Notification - 2009-11-05 # 1.1.2.2 Addition to the Policy for non responsive maintainers # 1.1.2.3 Upcoming Bugzilla Changes # 1.1.2.4 Request your FUDCon funding now: cutoff Thursday 19:30 UTC # 1.1.2.5 Notice: Fedora 12 Tagging Status Update # 1.1.2.6 Reminder: Tagging Policy for Fedora 12 + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Fedora 12 event in Antwerp, Belgium + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 is coming o 1.3 Translation + 1.3.1 Serbian Translation File Nomenclature + 1.3.2 Templates for Marketing Content + 1.3.3 New Members o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Game Screenshots + 1.4.2 Remaining Tasks for Fedora 12 o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 201 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 201[1] for the week ending November 8, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In this week's issue, a variety of announcements from the Project kicks us off, including completion of the Fedora documentation to a Creative Commons license, announcement of a new Fedora Medical special interest group, and announcements related to the upcoming Fedora 12 release candidate. In Ambassador news, details on an upcoming Fedora 12 event in Antwerp, Belgium. In Translation news, details regarding the Serbian translation team's discovery of a nomenclature discrepancy, a proposal to prepare marketing materials for use by the Ambassador program, and new members joining the Czech and Bengali localization teams. From the Art/Design Team, a call for help to assemble screenshots of games included in the Fedora Game spin and details on the remaining Art Team tasks for the road to Fedora 12. The Security Advisories beat brings us up to date on the security-related updates to Fedora 11 and 10 over this past week, and rounds out this issue of FWN. Enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue201 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- CC license changeover complete Ian Weller announced about the CC license changeover completion [1]. He mentioned, “The Docs team has finished converting all current documentation and project content from the OPL to a CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported license. Additional information can be found at [2][3] Thanks again to Tom "spot" Callaway, Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal and all the Fedora contributors who helped with the conversion. Here's to freer documentation for Fedora 12!” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg1.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Relicensing_OPL_to_CC_BY_SA 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg1.html Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2009-11-05 Paul W. Frields, the Fedora Project Leader, announced [1] a reminder about the Fedora Board IRC Meeting. He said, “The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, November 5, 2009, at 1700 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. Join #
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o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> ? # 1.1.1.2 Nominations now open for December Fedora Elections + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 12 staged for mirrors, Rawhide moving on soon + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Fedora 12 release o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Fedora 12 Media Art + 1.4.2 Large Website Banner o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Guest Bridge Configuration with libvirt and netcf # 1.6.1.2 New Release libguestfs 1.0.78 + 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.6.2.1 No Xen dom0 in Fedora 12 Hopefully 13 + 1.6.3 Libvirt List # 1.6.3.1 Keeping Guest Configurations in Sync on Multiple Hosts o 1.7 KDE + 1.7.1 New Soprano Backends coming to Fedora KDE + 1.7.2 gtk-qt-engine retired, replaced with kcm-gtk - Fedora Weekly News Issue 202 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 202[1] for the week ending November 15, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Announcements, the always-popular name selection process for the next Fedora release is underway, and nominations are open for December's Fedora elections. Planet Fedora contributes a look at the new Fedora Community site, some benchmarks of improbably large filesystems and a guide to using the Sugar desktop on Fedora. From Quality Assurance we hear about some more AutoQA improvements and the last stretch of the Fedora 12 release process. The Design team has been working on media art and website banners for the Fedora 12 release. Security Advisories summarizes the security patches released for Fedora 10 and 11 over the past week. In Virtualization, we discuss creating network bridges for virtual machines when using NetworkManager, and a new release of libguestfs. There's also news on the state of Xen support in Fedora 12. Finally, the KDE section brings us up to date on some new backends for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system, and the replacement of gtk-qt-engine with kcm-gtk for Fedora 12. Enjoy the read! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue202 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> ? John Rose, the Central US Regional Ambassador for North America, announced the beginning of the naming process for Fedora 13[1] F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> ? The full announcement: "With Fedora 12 just a few days from release it is time to begin the naming process for the next Fedora release. Contributors can make suggestions for the name for Fedora 13 by visiting [2] and following the instructions. Remember there needs to be an "is-a" link between the name Constantine and the name you suggest and this link must be different than all previous links used to connect Fedora release names. Full details of the release naming schedule are available on the above link but please note than the period for gathering suggestions begins now and runs through November 16. So there isn't a lot of time, think up some good names, and get them added to the wiki." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg3.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_13 Nominations now open for December Fedora Elections John Rose announced that the nominations now open for December Fedora Elections[1]. Here is the announcement, "It is time to begin the process of nominating candidates for the open seats in the following bodies: * Fedora Project Boa
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o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 Reviews: A Sampling + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 F12 PackageKit root permission change + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 Roundup o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Improving the release criteria o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Release Notes Translations Updated for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese + 1.4.2 Errors in Release Notes for Chinese and German + 1.4.3 Error in Package Name in the Fedora 12 Release Notes + 1.4.4 SSSD and MC Translation Request + 1.4.5 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Interviews + 1.6.2 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.2.1 Fedora Virtualization Status Report # 1.6.2.2 Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12 + 1.6.3 Libvirt List # 1.6.3.1 New Release libvirt 0.7.4 - Fedora Weekly News Issue 203 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 203[1] for the week ending November 22, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Fedora 12 "Constantine" was released this past week, and we kick off this week's issue with a sampling of reviews from around the globe. Also in announcements, details on a change in Fedora 12's PackageKit permissions. In news from the Fedora Planet, some details on what's involved with providing delta RPMs, a new feature in Fedora 12, a site visit to the new Red Hat Computing Lab at Carnegie Mellon, and much more from Fedora contributors. Quality Assurance brings us up to date with the recent weekly meetings of the QA team which have focused on F12, with lots of interesting detail behind the scenes! In Translation news, details on updates and errata for Fedora 12 release notes, and a couple translation requests from SSSD and Midnight Commander. Security Advisories keeps us current with security patches for Fedora 10, 11, and 12. In news from the world of Fedora virtualization, coverage of a recent interview with virtualization luminaries, a status report on Fedora virtualiza tion and details on the latest version of libvirt. Enjoy FWN 203! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue203 2. 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://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 Reviews: A Sampling --- Fedora 12, "Constantine", was released last week to widespread acclaim. A few sample reviews: * Linux Magazine (USA) "Fedora, still pushing the envelope"[1] * ZDNet UK "Saving the "Best" for Last - Fedora 12 (Constantine)"[2] * The Register (UK) "Fedora 12 - Its a horse, not a camel"[3] * ghacks.net (USA) "Major improvements with Fedora 12"[4] * IT Pro (UK) "Fedora 12 tweaks virtualisation, video"[5] * TechWorld (Australia) "Fedora Linux 12 arrives, ups multimedia support"[6] * TechSpot (USA) "Fedora 12 released, brings multi-touch support, more"[7] * Datamation "Building On-Ramps on the Fedora 12 Highway"[8] 1. http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7618/1.html 2. http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,100567,10014494o-2000498448b,00.htm 3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_review/ 4. http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/18/major-improvements-with-fedora-12/ 5. http://www.itpro.co.uk/617824/fedora-12-tweaks-virtualisation-video 6. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/326717/fedora_linux_12_arrives_ups_multimedia_support 7. http://www.techspot.com/news/37004-fedora-12-released-brings-multitouch-support-more.html 8. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps-on-the-Fedora-12-Highway.htm --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- F12 PackageKit root permission cha
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o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 More Fedora 12 Reviews + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 Fedora Project Election Town Halls + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Quality Assurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Increasing the grub timeout + 1.3.4 Fedora 12 QA retrospective o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora at NYSCATE + 1.4.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Translation Schedule Tasks + 1.5.2 Accessibility Guide + 1.5.3 New Members o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Interaction Design Hackfest + 1.6.2 Game Screenshots Ready. Better Navigation Next o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 204 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 204[1] for the week ending November 29, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We start this week's issue off with a couple additional Fedora 12 reviews to highlight, and also lots of Fedora Project Election information to inform and engage the user community! In news from the Fedora Planet this week, comparing the Nokia Maemo and Google Android platforms, thoughts on sustainable open source engineering, and a review of the 0.4 Eclipse Linux Tools. In the Quality Assurance beat, much detail on this past week's QA team activities, and an interesting Fedora 12 QA retrospective. Ambassadors news this week gives us an event report from the recent New York State Association for Technology and Computers in Education meeting. In Translation happenings, 0-day Fedora 12 translation polishing, and new members to the Fedora Localization Project for Italian, Sinhala and German. The Art/Design beat shows off discussion on an interactive design hackfest and wrapup of screenshots for a Fedora Game Spin. This issue wraps up with security patches released last week for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. Please enjoy FWN 204! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue204 2. 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://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- More Fedora 12 Reviews --- Last week, we highlighted several Fedora 12 reviews from around the globe. Here are a few more than came in over the past week: * Distrowatch, "First look at Fedora 12" [1] * Linux Planet "Fedora 12 pushes bleeding edge of Linux networking" [2] 1. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091123#feature 2. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6910/1/ --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- Fedora Project Election Town Halls There are a number of high-profile and important elections for the Fedora Project leadership in process right now, and there's lots on the wiki to inform the user community on the candidates[1]. See the linked page for a log of town hall discussions, and upcoming town halls[2] through December 3rd! Who can vote? Check out the Fedora Elections Guide![3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls 3. http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/ --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the 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 * 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#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_4 Past Events -
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 205 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS # 1.1.1.1 Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 Board appointment # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 13 release name # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 12 LXDE Spin available for download # 1.1.2.4 Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2009-12-03 + 1.1.3 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.3.1 Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta # 1.1.3.2 Upcoming multi-day outage + 1.1.4 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.4.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.4.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-12-8 and 2009-12-1 + 1.3.2 F13 Marketing Preparation + 1.3.3 Fedora In The News + 1.3.4 Fedora Insight + 1.3.5 Fedora-tour Coding Begins + 1.3.6 Limesurvey coming to Fedora Infrastructure o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora 12 event in Nicaragua + 1.4.2 FAmSCo election now open: Vote + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 translate.fedoraproject.org Outage From December 12, 2009 + 1.5.2 Issues with translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Draft Schedule + 1.5.4 New Members o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Brainstorming for Goddard + 1.6.2 New Mailing List for Echo o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.8 Virtualization + 1.8.1 Events # 1.8.1.1 Red Hat Virtual Experience + 1.8.2 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.8.2.1 KSM Tuning Daemon and the KSM Kernel Thread Process # 1.8.2.2 New Release virt-manager 0.8.1 - Fedora Weekly News Issue 205 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 205[1] for the week ending December 6, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Welcome to the post-FUDCon Toronto 2009 issue of Fedora Weekly News! In this issue, details on the various Fedora elections and announcement of the Fedora 13 release name, as well as news of the new Bugzilla 3.4 public beta availability. In news from the Fedora Planet, details on why Chromium is not packaged for Fedora, an upcoming Gnome Color Manager release, a guide to theming Plymouth, and much more! Updates from FUDCon Toronto and work towards Fedora 13 from the Marketing beat. In news from Ambassadors, a report on a F12 event in Nicaragua. Translation brings us news of an upcoming outage for translate.fedoraproject.org and details related to this, a draft Fedora 13 schedule, and new Localization team members. From the Design team, brainstorming on the Goddard theme, and a new mailing list for the Echo icon set. Security Advisories brings us up to date on patches for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. The Virtualization beat wraps up this issue, with details on a Red Hat Virtualization online event on 12/9, details on a new virt-manager release. Enjoy this issue of FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue205 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS --- The Fedora Board, FESCO and FAMSCO Election are scheduled to start at UTC on 5th December 2009 and run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009. Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information Nigel Jones, Fedora Election Admin, announced that the elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee have been created and are due to start at UTC on 5th December 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009.[1]. He also mentioned: “All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method [2]
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 206 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 10 final updates cutoff: December 11 + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Fedora 12 release party in Athens, Greece + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 release party in Caracas, Venezuela + 1.2.3 Fedora Ambassadors active in Tunisia + 1.2.4 FAmSCo election now open: Vote + 1.2.5 Fedora 12 is here o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 FUDCon Toronto + 1.3.4 BugZappers triaged bugs policy change + 1.3.5 Release criteria revision + 1.3.6 Bugzilla 3.4 public beta + 1.3.7 Fedora 13 schedule + 1.3.8 Fedora 13 Alpha release notes o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Fedora 13 Schedule Draft Discussion + 1.4.2 FLSCo Election Proposed + 1.4.3 Update About translate.fedoraproject.org Issues + 1.4.4 Mentoring of New Members o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Goddard Ahead + 1.5.2 Improving the Fedora Community Website o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 206 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 206[1] for the week ending December 13, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue kicks off with an announcement that the Fedora-related voting has been extended one day due to some infrastructure outages. There is still time to vote, if you haven't yet! In news from Ambassadors, details on Fedora 12 release parties in Greece and Venezuela, and an Ambassadors update from Tunisia. Also a reminder to vote before the end of today in the FAMSco elections. In Quality Assurance news, we have a special double issue for you, including details from the latest weekly meetings, a report on QA activities at FUDCon Toronto last weekend, and early news on Fedora 13 work. In Design news, early details on Goddard theming and looks toward updating the Fedora community website. Security Advisories brings us up to date on the latest security patches for F10 through F12. We hope you enjoy FWN 206! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue206 2. 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://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS --- Paul W. Frields announced[1] that elections for the Fedora Board, FESCo and FAmSCo would be extended one day, now ending at 2009-12-16 UTC 2359. As a reminder: All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method [2] Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at [3]. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at [4]. Fedora Board Election: This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos[5]. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: * Chris Tyler (ctyler) * Colin Walters (walters) * Matt Domsch (mdomsch) * Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: [6] Town Hall Logs: [7] [8] Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: * Adam Jackson (ajax) * Christoph Wickert (cwickert) * Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) * Matthew Garrett (mjg59) * Peter Jones (pjones) * Richard June (rjune) * Robert Scheck (
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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 207 o 1.1 Issue Summary o 1.2 Announcements + 1.2.1 Fedora Mailing lists migration + 1.2.2 Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix + 1.2.3 FUDCon Toronto: Five-Minute Survey + 1.2.4 Fedora 10 End of Life + 1.2.5 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.2.5.1 Fedora Outage Notification + 1.2.6 FESCo Election Results + 1.2.7 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.2.7.1 Upcoming Events # 1.2.7.2 Past Events o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Increasing the grub timeout + 1.3.4 X.org server testing o 1.4 Security Advisories + 1.4.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.4.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 207 - -- Issue Summary -- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 207[1] for the week ending December 20, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Welcome to the final Fedora Weekly News of 2009! We will be taking a break after this issue and return with issue 208 on January 11, 2010. Have a wonderful holiday season how ever you celebrate it! In this issue, we kick off with announcements including a reminder of Fedora 10 end of life, FESCo election results, and notification of Fedora mailing lists migration. In news from the Fedora Planet, several posts covering FUDCon Toronto, a continuation of the Plymouth Theming Guide, and details on the source control move from cvs to git, as well as several posts around virtualization. In Quality Assurance news, a recap of the weekly QA team meetings, increasing grub timeout, and X.org server testing. Our issue finishes with Security Advisories for Fedora 11 and 12. We hope you enjoy FWN 207! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-l...@redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue207 2. 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://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events Fedora Mailing lists migration Jon Stanley wrote[1]: "Over the last several years, there has been some contention about having Fedora mailing lists hosted on Red Hat infrastructure. As previously announced[2], there was an effort to migrate the mailing lists onto Fedora infrastructure, however, due to a variety of factors, it has been very much delayed. I'm pleased to announce that we've selected a date(s) for this migration project, and are ready to implement it. On January 9 and 10, 2010, all Fedora related mailing lists that are currently hosted at redhat.com will be migrated to lists.fedoraproject.org. Red Hat has agreed to forward the mail for the old list name to the new list names, and continue hosting the archives at their current location. Additionally, all archives will be copied over to the new location as well. All new archives will only be present at the new location. We've decided to do this in one fell swoop rather than gradually as originally planned because we feel it to be in the interest of our community to have much pain at one point, rather than small amounts of pain spread out over a long period of time. All of your mail filters that rely on the List-ID header will break on these days, and adjustments on your part will be required. We apologize for the inconvenience. For your convenience, I've posted a mapping of old list names to new list names[3] as well as a PDF version[4] After the migration, you are welcome to file tickets for new mailing list creation and problems with old ones in the Fedora Infrastructure trac instance[5]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00011.ht 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00012.html 3. http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/mlmigration.ods 4. http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/mlmigration.pdf 5. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix Rahul Sundaram wrote[1]: "Omega is a completely free and open source Linux based operating system and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a installable Live image for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It has all the features of Fedora and number of additional software including multimedia pl
