Fedora and Google Summer of Code

+BCC to devel for one-time visibility Hi All, Fedora is putting the final touches on its Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application. We need your help to flesh out the project ideas and mentors list. As in the past, they are being collected on the Fedora Wiki:

! GSoC Ideas

Hi All, As you may know we have successfully submitted a Google Summer of Code application this year. While we won't know until 27 February if we are accepted, we still have work to do! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2017 This page needs some ideas. A good idea

Re: bex represents pagure emails in hyperkitty

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017, at 09:55 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote: > > The atomic working group has configured pagure to send notifications to > the > cloud mailing list. These notifications come through as normal emails > but for some reason in hyperkitty the emails from pagure show up as >

Re: bex represents pagure emails in hyperkitty

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 04:00 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > El mar, 17-01-2017 a las 22:15 +0100, Brian Exelbierd escribió: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017, at 09:55 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote: > > > > > > The atomic working group has configured pagure to send > > > no

[FOSDEM] [CFP] FOSDEM 2017 - Distributions Devroom - Extended

ions, feel free to contact the devroom organizers: distributions-devr...@lists.fosdem.org (https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom) Cheers! Brian Exelbierd (twitter: @bexelbie) and Brian Stinson (twitter: @bstinsonmhk) for and on behalf of The Distributions Devroom Program

Self Introduction: Brian Exelbierd

Packaging is an important Fedora Contributor activity and so far I haven't joined that part of the party. Today I have changed that by submitting my first package review request: DayJournal - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409884 DayJournal is a Linux desktop application

Re: Text editors and IDEs for editing RPM spec files: worthy addition to the Packaging:Guidelines article?

Having recently begun the process of packing my first RPM, I've been trying to make my way through the material. The fact that this thread has attracted three different answers leads me to believe we may need to do some information architecture work here ... On Mon, Jan 9, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Vít

Re: F26 Self Contained Change: Transdiff

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017, at 09:39 AM, Jan Kurik wrote: > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Transdiff = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Transdiff > > Change owner(s): > *Sundeep Anand > > Often even after 100% translation in Zanata, few packages do not get > build with latest translations

Re: release cycle thread (motivations, and... revisiting tick-tock?)

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016, at 05:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 04:48:44PM +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > I probably lost the context ... what real-world problems are trying to fix? > > Everything which comes to my mind should be solved by better tooling for > > updates-testing

Re: Is Pagure slow for you too?

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017, at 11:14 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Hi, > I wonder if it's just me or others also have problems with performance > of Pagure. Pagure is always slower for me than e.g. Github, but it's > bearable. However, there are times when I have to wait easily 30-60 sec > to load a page

Re: Finalizing Fedora's Switch to Python 3

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > > * Switch /usr/bin/python to Python 3 in cooperation with Python upstream. > > That again? That really seems like a nonstarter; previous > discussion specifically around

Re: Council Elections - July/August 2017 - Result announcement

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017, at 05:49 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Just linking to the User page is not enough, > because those vary widely and often don't contain any info > relevant for> elections. This came up in another conversation I was having today. I agree with linking to the

FLOCK UPDATE - funding, tickets, and more

This email is being sent to devel@, flock-planning@, and flock-attendees-2017@ for visibility. I apologize if you receive it multiple times. # Action Required: Read below carefully to determine if you need to take an action ## Registration We will be placing final food orders and other

Re: [Modularity] A proposal for stream naming

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017, at 10:07 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > Okay, so, I decided to get my hands dirty with this to make sure my > conceptual understanding stays in sync with the reality. And, it turns > out we really do need a system-tools module. So, I'm going to make > that. And in doing so, I

Re: [Modularity] A proposal for stream naming

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017, at 08:35 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 08:25:59PM +0200, Brian Exelbierd wrote: > > Does this mean that a module built primarilly from a single application > > does not have a 13 month fixed lifecycle? I hope this is true because, >

Flock Funding Decisions

Flock funding decisions will begin being released this week. Please do not ask, irc, email, telegram, smoke signal, etc. anyone about the status of your decision or about when decisions will be released. Everytime someone interrupts the funding committee (or me when I am processing the requests)

Re: [Modularity] A proposal for stream naming

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017, at 10:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:29:29PM +0200, Brian Exelbierd wrote: > > However, considering this from a different angle, a LAMP stack module, > > for example, might just need to make a certain API/ABI promise and then &g

Flock Funding/CfP Update - Non-presenters and presenters

Hi All, = Funding Update - Non Presenters = The council changed the funding model for this year's Flock and presenting a session is not required to get funded. We were serious about this :). If you haven't already done so, get yourself registered and put in any funding request you have by

Re: GnuPG 2.2.0 and replacement of GnuPG1

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017, at 02:25 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Sunday, 03 September 2017 at 13:45, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > > GnuPG 2.2.0 has --enable-gpg-is-gpg2 which would install compat symlink > > from /usr/bin/gpg to /usr/bin/gpg2.. > > > > Is it time to retire gnupg (v1) ? >

DevConf CfP Open

DevConf.cz 2018 is the 10th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to Open Source Linux, middleware, virtualization, storage, cloud and mobile technologies where FLOSS communities sync,

Flock 2018 Bidding Open

The new streamlined bidding process for Flock 2018 is now open. See the community blog post here: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-2018-bidding-open/ for all the details. The process has been made simpler to encourage more bidding. regards, The Flock Bid Committee

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 7 applications written in Rust are available in Rawhide

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017, at 09:57 AM, Jan Synacek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Igor Gnatenko > wrote: > > snip > > I kind of wonder... What is so special about them that they deserve a > big announcement like this? Actually, I really like this "big

Re: Missing font information at wiki

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Akira TAGOH wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Matthew Miller > wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 03:44:05PM +0530, Akira TAGOH wrote: > >> All of fonts is supposed to have an information page for their > >> fonts> >> at wiki

Re: How to manage a fork

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017, at 01:03 PM, Antonio Trande wrote: > Hi all. > > I have created a fork on https://src.fedoraproject.org/ but i > don't know> how to manage it. > Can i use 'fedpkg'? > Documentation? As as you have a fork, my understanding is that you should just use traditional gut

FOSDEM 2018 - Distributions Devroom Call for Participation

...@lists.fosdem.org (https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom) Cheers! Brian Exelbierd (twitter: @bexelbie) and Brian Stinson (twitter: @bstinsonmhk) for and on behalf of The Distributions Devroom Program Committee ___ devel mailing list

Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2018 Package management devroom

FYI If your talk is Fedora/RPM related, travel funding may be available. regards, bex - Original message - From: Benjamin Nickolls To: fos...@lists.fosdem.org Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2018 Package management devroom Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:18:01 +0100

Developers - help promote Fedora -- Booth Demo Opportunity 11/12 November

Are you based in Europe? Are you comfortable presenting in a booth? Do you have technical development skills that you can show off in a demo using Fedora? I have an opportunity for you to help me with a booth at Build Stuff in Lithuania (http://buildstuff.lt/) The audience is typically

Re: Developers - help promote Fedora -- Booth Demo Opportunity 11/12 November

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017, at 09:43 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Are you sure it's 11/12 November? Their web page says 15-19. Ugh - typo city. I'll fix my email. Thanks. > > BTW, I'm unable to help you for multiple good reasons. I understand. regards, bex > > Regards, > >

Developers - help promote Fedora -- Booth Demo Opportunity 15-19 November (Date Correction)

corrected dates, because $typos. Are you based in Europe? Are you comfortable presenting in a booth? Do you have technical development skills that you can show off in a demo using Fedora? I have an opportunity for you to help me with a booth at Build Stuff in Lithuania (http://buildstuff.lt/)

HackIllinois - Advance Fedora?

I got pinged indirectly by HackIllinois which organizes a contribution-style hackfest. http://www.hackillinois.org/ http://www.hackillinois.org/assets/pdf/sponsorship-2018.pdf Is this something we as Fedora would want to sponsor and send mentors to to advance Fedora projects? regards, bex

Flock Bidding still open - don't forget

Flock bidding for Europe is still open. The new easier bid process is described here: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-2018-bidding-open/ The process is lightweight and designed to help you move forward with a proposal quickly. You start by answering some basic questions about

Writing Documentation for Fedora - Docs FAD

We are looking for interested people who are willing to write docs in person for one week. You don't have to be an existing docs team member to participate. It helps if you're familiar with AsciiDoc, but if you're not, it's easy to learn. You'll hang out with other people interested in making

Expenses and Reimbursements through the end of the year

Hi All, I am sending this out to multiple lists to get it wide exposure. Red Hat let me know about the year end closing dates in an email yesterday. In order for me to be able to get our items resolved on time, I need to request the following: 1) All reimbursements must be filed and paid by

Re: RANT: Packaging is changing too fast and is not well documented

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018, at 7:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 02/12/2018 10:14 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> Not coming from a programming background I found the learning curve pretty > >> steep when I first tried to become

January 2018 Elections: Nomination & Campaign period is open

Today we are starting the Nomination & Campaign period during which we accept nominations to the "steering bodies" of the following teams: * FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats) [1] * Fedora Council (2 seats) [2] * Mindshare (2 seats) [3] This period is open until 2018-Jan-10 at 23:59:59 UTC. The

GSoC Organization Applications Open Today

Hi All, I am going to start working on the Fedora GSoC Organizational application. I will also work on the structure for suggesting projects. # If you want to mentor Please use this time to start thinking about potential projects for GSoC Students. There are no wiki pages to update yet -

GSoC Ideas Time

Our Application for GSoC is ready and we will make the submission deadline tomorrow. Therefore we should start working on ideas. See https://docs.stg.fedoraproject.org/mentored-projects/gsoc/2018/#mentor-information for details. Text is also below. regards, bex How to Propose a Project

Re: Facing problems in pagure

Hi Tanmoy, How long ago did you add your SSH key to FAS? Is it a new repository? Historically, and I believe currently, there is a delay before everything is fully configured. This may be solved by just waiting for about 30 minutes. regards, bex On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Tanmoy

January 2018 Elections: Nomination & Campaign period is open

Today we are starting the Nomination & Campaign period during which we accept nominations to the "steering bodies" of the following teams: * FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats) [1] * Fedora Council (2 seats) [2] * Mindshare (2 seats) [3] This period is open until 2018-Jan-10 at 23:59:59 UTC. The