Fedora 14 End of Life

2011-12-13 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As of 09 December 2011, Fedora 14 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 14. A previous reminder was sent on November 8th [0]. Fedora 15 will continue to

Rebuild for GCC-4.7

2012-01-04 Thread Dennis Gilmore
starting immediatly there is going to be a mass rebuild of rawhide for gcc-4.7 that landed yesterday. as approved by FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/739) packagers will have just over a week, until Thursday Jan 12 to build packages themselves. After that date releng will kick off an

Announcing the release of Fedora 18 Beta!

2012-04-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Beta release of Beefy Miracle! Flying 'round the world at the speed of the intertubes, delivering progress, mustard, and freedom to the masses. We are delighted to announce the availability

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 17 Beta!

2012-04-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lets try again. its really Fedora 17 Beta, we have not yet entered a time vortex and skipped ahead, But now is a great time to work on or see what will be coming next in Fedora 18 :) El Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:17:02 -0500 Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us

Mass rebuild cleanup

2012-08-03 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, With branching for f18 happening on Tuesday next week we still have quite a large number of failures and packages needing rebuilt. the list of 415 current failures can be found at http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f18-failures.html while the

f18 mass branching

2012-08-08 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mass branching for f18 is complete. please be sure to do a git pull. to get the f18 branch. also please be sure to use the latest fedpkg dist-rawhide has been removed if your tools are too old you wont

Fedora 19 Alpha Change freeze

2013-04-01 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, as the Fedora 19 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon us. As we are now at the change freeze bodhi has been enabled for f19 now. it means all builds will now need an update cretaed and as we are at Alpha freeze only accepted

Announcing the release of Fedora 19 Alpha!

2013-04-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora 19 Schrödinger's Cat alpha release has arrived with a preview of the latest fantastic, free, and open source technology currently under development. Take a peek inside: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease *** What is the Alpha

mass rebuild update

2013-08-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have merged perl info f20 and started the mass rebuild. You can see the current list of failures[1] and list to be built[2]. Both lists are updated every 5 minutes. at the end of the initial run though we will file bugs for all FTBFS.

Re: mass rebuild update

2013-08-04 Thread Dennis Gilmore
:7067 Aug 04:3329 we did make some changes on the x86 builders post f19 mass rebuild which helped disk IO on them. but this is by far the fastest mass rebuild to date. There is a large number of failures[1] that need to be addressed. Dennis On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 00:07:15 -0500 Dennis Gilmore den

Fedora 20 Mass Branching

2013-08-20 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Fedora 20 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to pick up the new branch, as an additional reminder rawhide/f21 has had inheritance cut off from previous releases, so this means that anything you do for f20 you also

Fedora 20 Alpha Change freeze

2013-09-03 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, as the Fedora 20 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon us. As we are now at the change freeze bodhi has been enabled for f20 now. It means all builds will now need an update cretaed and as we are at Alpha freeze only accepted

Reminder on how to EOL a package

2013-09-16 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, As the procedure recently changed a little and many people have gotten it wrong for a long time I wanted to bring to everyones attention the proper procedure to retire a package that is no longer useful.

Rawhide and branched nightly compose changes

2013-11-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have just changed the starting times of the nightly branched composes. Rawhide now kicks off 3 hours earlier at 05:15 UTC. Branched now starts 2 hours earlier at 07:15 UTC. Releng is working to integrate the nightly livecd composes into the

nightly compose changes

2013-11-16 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi All, As of today we have changed the nightly branched and rawhide compose processes to generate livecds for all spins, as well as the arm disk images and cloud disk images. There is still further work to go. next phase will be to put together a set of nightly trees and notification

EPEL 7 Development

2014-01-11 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Yesterday we opened up epel7 for people to request branches and contribute to there is a FAQ[1]. The things to note at this point in time. epel7 is working like rawhide with daily automated composes, we will endevour to sign all packages but

Mass Rebuild for Fedora 21

2014-05-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, It was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5877 that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 21 for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC49 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F21Make40

Fedora 21 Mass rebuild update

2014-06-07 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, We merged in the side tags on May 27, and on June 6 kicked off the mass rebuild. we are currently about 1/3rd of the way through. You can see the current list of failures[1] and list to be built[2]. Both lists are updated every 5 minutes. at

Special mass rebuild

2014-08-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, It was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5962 that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 21 and 22 of all archful packages This is due to an ABI issue on s390/x and some gcc issues. we will start the mass rebuild on

F21 Alpha Change Freeze

2014-08-26 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, As the Fedora 21 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon us and we have a confidence in delivering RC composes. As we are now at the change freeze bodhi will be enabled for f21 tomorrow morning US Time. It means all builds will now

Re: F21 Alpha Change Freeze

2014-08-27 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:47:02 -0500 Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, As the Fedora 21 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon us and we have a confidence in delivering RC

Announcing the release of Fedora 21 Beta!

2014-11-04 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora 21 beta release is here, and - as usual - is packed with amazing improvements to Fedora, as well as fantastic free and open source software, gently harvested for your enjoyment. No bits were harmed in the making of this beta. What is the

Re: All packagers to be added to the new notifications system

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:30:40 -0500 Ralph Bean rb...@redhat.com wrote: As previously announced[1], the infrastructure team is going to be adding all of the members of the packager group to the new fedmsg notifications system (FMN)[2]. It is

Fedora 22 Alpha Freeze

2015-02-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Today's an important day on the Fedora 22 schedule[1], with several significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point [2]. That means that from now all Fedora 22 packages must be submitted to updates-testing and pass the

Fedora 22 Beta Freeze

2015-04-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Tuesday was an important day on the Fedora 22 schedule[1], with two significant cut-offs. Tuesday was the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Beta composes. Other builds

Fedora 22 Final Freeze

2015-05-12 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Today is an important day on the Fedora 22 schedule[1], with a significant cut-offs. Today is the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Final composes. Other builds will

Fedora 20 End Of Life

2015-06-23 Thread Dennis Gilmore
As of 23rd of June 2015, Fedora 20 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 20. A previous reminder was sent on 27th of May [0]. Fedora 21 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after

Fedora 23 mass rebuild

2015-06-16 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Per the Fedora 23 schedule[1] we will be starting a mass rebuild for Fedora 23 very shortly. It was requested in a trac ticket[2] that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 23 for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC5 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages we will

Reminder: Fedora 20 end of life on 2015-06-23

2015-05-27 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Greetings. This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 20. Fedora 20 will reach end of life on 2015-06-23, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 22, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 20

Fedora 23 Alpha Freeze

2015-07-29 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Today's an important day on the Fedora 23 schedule[1], with several significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point [2]. That means that from now all Fedora 23 packages must be submitted to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements[3] before they will be

Announcing the release of Fedora 23 Alpha!

2015-08-11 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Fedora 23 Alpha Release Announcement The Fedora 23 Alpha is here, right on schedule for our planned October final release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: * Get Fedora 23 Alpha Workstation: https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/

Fedora 23 Mass Branching

2015-07-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi All, Fedora 23 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to pick up the new branch, as an additional reminder rawhide/f24 has had inheritance cut off from previous releases, so this means that anything you do for f23 you also have to do in the master branch and do a build

Fedora 23 Final Freeze

2015-10-13 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Today is an important day on the Fedora 23 schedule[1], with a significant cut-offs. Today is the Final Freeze[2]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Final composes. Other builds will

rawhide buildroot creation changes

2015-10-09 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, as of this morning US time we have changed the way rawhide buildroots are created in koji. rawhide is now using dnf to install the packages into the buildroot. this means that in f24 and on dnf will be used to create the buildroot. as well as manage the updates on your system. We

Fedora 23 Beta Freeze

2015-09-13 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Tuesday was an important day on the Fedora 23 schedule[1], with two significant cut-offs. Tuesday was the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Beta composes. Other builds

Announcing the release of Fedora 23 Beta!

2015-09-22 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Fedora 23 Beta Release Announcement === The Fedora 23 Beta is here, right on schedule for our planned October final release! Want to help make Fedora 23 be the best release ever, or just want to get a sneak peek? Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site and

Fedora 24 Mass Rebuild

2016-02-03 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Per the Fedora 24 schedule[1] we will be starting a mass rebuild for Fedora 24 very shortly. We are doing a mass rebuild for Fedora 24 for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC6 we will start the mass rebuild on 2016-02-03 This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and

Fedora 24 Alpha Freeze

2016-03-08 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Today's an important day on the Fedora 24 schedule[1], with several significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point [2]. That means that from now all Fedora 24 packages must be submitted to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements[3] before they will be

Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta!

2016-05-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
The Fedora 24 Beta is here, on schedule for our planned June final release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: - Get Fedora 24 Beta Workstation: a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful operating system for your laptop or desktop computer

Fedora 24 Beta Freeze

2016-04-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Today is an important day on the Fedora 24 schedule[1], with two significant cut-offs. Today is the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Beta composes. Other builds will

Re: Fedora 24 Beta Freeze

2016-04-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:52:30 AM CDT Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Hi all, > > Today is an important day on the Fedora 24 schedule[1], with two significant > cut-offs. > > Today is the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which fix > accepted blocker or freez

Announcing the release of Fedora 25 Alpha!

2016-09-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Fedora 25 Alpha, an important milestone on the road to our Fedora 25 release in November. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: * https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/ *

comiing to koji aarch64

2016-09-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi All, We are in the process of importing aarch64 to the primary koji instance as part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ RedefiningSecondaryArchitectures The import and enablement of aarch64 is for rawhide only, we expect to add power big and little endiian sometime before

Re: comiing to koji aarch64

2016-09-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Saturday, September 10, 2016 9:19:27 AM CDT Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Hi All, > > We are in the process of importing aarch64 to the primary koji instance as > part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ > RedefiningSecondaryArchitectures The import and enable

Re: ppc64 and ppc64le builds coming to rawhide

2016-10-29 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Friday, October 28, 2016 2:54:19 PM CDT Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Hi all, > > over the weekend we will be importing and enabling ppc64 and ppc64le builds > in koji.fedoraproject.org as part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ > Architectures/RedefiningSecondaryArchitectu

announcing arch excludes mailing list

2017-01-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi All, A new mailing list has been created https://lists.fedoraproject.org/adm in/lists/arch-excludes.lists.fedoraproject.org/ I would invite anyone who is interested in any architecture in fedora to subscribe to the list. every commit to git that adds or removes ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch will

Re: announcing arch excludes mailing list

2017-01-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
El mar, 10-01-2017 a las 14:34 -0600, Dennis Gilmore escribió: > Hi All, > > A new mailing list has been created https://lists.fedoraproject.org/a > dm > in/lists/arch-excludes.lists.fedoraproject.org/ I would invite anyone > who is interested in any architecture in f

Alternative Arch update

2017-04-28 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi All, Just letting you all know that as part of the redefinition of Alternative Architectures[1] we have just enabled the building of s390x in primary koji. this is the last new architecture we are planning to enable at this point. s390x will be added to rawhide composes early next week. If you

Mass rebuilds update

2017-08-07 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi All, We have now completed two mass rebuilds, The first one was the scheduled mass rebuild for Fedora 27 details are here[1] the second one was all archful packages due to the binutils bug[2] on ppc64le. The failures pages for the two rebuilds can be found here[3] and here[4] Please quickly

Changes in Fedora Release Engineering

2018-03-16 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Hi all, Today I am writing to announce some changes in Fedora Release Engineering. Effective Friday the 23rd of March 2018 Mohan Boddu will be taking over as the primary person responsible for Release Engineering in Fedora. Mohan has effectively been the primary person since Fedora 26 as he has