F29 System Wide Change: ZRAM support for ARM images

2018-07-03 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: ZRAM support for ARM images = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ZRAMforARMimages Owner(s): * Peter Robinson Enable ZRAM for swap on ARMv7 and aarch64 pre generated images to improve performance and reliability on ARM Single Board Computers such a the

F29 System Wide Change: uEFI for ARMv7

2018-07-03 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: uEFI for ARMv7 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/uEFIforARMv7 Owner(s): * Peter Robinson Move to uEFI as the default boot mechanism for ARMv7 devices. == Detailed description == Currently ARMv7 uses extlinux to boot the kernel on ARMv7. This has

Fedora 29 Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (System Wide Changes) has been reached today

2018-07-03 Thread Jan Kurik
The submission deadline for System Wide Change Proposals of Fedora 29 [1] has been reached today (on July 3rd). From July 4th, please schedule your System Wide Changes for a next release (Fedora 30). The deadline for Self Contained Change Proposals is planned on July 24th. In case you'll need

F29 System Wide Change: Remove Excessive Linking

2018-07-03 Thread Jan Kurik
Note from Change Wrangler: This Change Proposal requires mass rebuild. However, two weeks ago (June 19th), we have already passed the deadline for Change proposals requiring mass rebuild. I will leave the decision whether this Change proposal is accepted or not to RelEng and FESCo teams. =

F29 System Wide Change: OpenLDAP without Non-threaded Libraries

2018-07-03 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: OpenLDAP without Non-threaded Libraries = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenLDAPwithoutNonthreadedLibraries Owner(s): * Matus Honek OpenLDAP will not ship non-threaded version of libldap. Instead, libldap will be built with the same threading support

F29 System Wide Change: Fedora 29 Boost 1.67 upgrade

2018-07-02 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Fedora 29 Boost 1.67 upgrade = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F29Boost167 Owner(s): * Jonathan Wakely This change brings Boost 1.67.0 to Fedora 29. This will mean F29 ships with a recent upstream Boost release. == Detailed description == The aim is

F29 System Wide Change: Zchunk Metadata

2018-07-01 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Zchunk Metadata = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Zchunk_Metadata Owner(s): * Jonathan Dieter * Neal Gompa All dnf repository metadata will be compressed with the zchunk format rather than xz or gzip. == Detailed description == Currently Fedora's

F29 System Wide Change: CJK Default Fonts To Noto

2018-06-28 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: CJK Default Fonts To Noto = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CJKDefaultFontsToNoto Owner(s): * Akira TAGOH * Peng Wu Changes the default fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages to Google Noto. == Detailed description == This proposal

F29 Self Contained Change: Deprecate YUM 3

2018-06-27 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Deprecate YUM 3 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Deprecate_YUM_3 Owner(s): * Daniel Mach Remove yum (v3) and all related packages from Fedora. == Detailed description == Remove packages from the distribution: * createrepo * yum * yum-langpacks *

F29 Self Contained Change: Minishift Spin

2018-06-25 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Minishift Spin = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Minishift_Spin Owner(s): * Praveen Kumar * Gerard Braad A Fedora Spin providing an easy way for minishift users to consume fedora as an ISO. == Detailed description == Minishift

F29 System Wide Change: IBus 1.5.19

2018-06-21 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: IBus 1.5.19 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/IBus_1.5.19 Owner(s): * Takao Fujiwara IBus 1.5.19 will have two features. # Move the input entry on IBus emoji dialog to the input entry on each application using IBus pre-edit text so that the focus event

F29 Self Contained Change: Origin 3.10

2018-06-20 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Origin 3.10 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/origin3.10 Owner(s): * Jakub Čajka Rebase of the Openshift Origin package to the latest upstream version, along with introduction of necessary infrastructure container images. == Detailed description ==

Today we have reached the Submission deadline for Change proposals of Fedora 29 requiring mass rebuild

2018-06-19 Thread Jan Kurik
Hi everyone! The submission deadline for Changes of Fedora 29 [1], requiring mass rebuild, takes effect today (on June 19th). All the Changes requiring mass rebuild sent for review are going to be moved to Fedora 30 release. The mass rebuild it self is planned on July 11th. In case you'll need

F29 System Wide Change: Rename Atomic Workstation to Silverblue

2018-06-19 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Rename Atomic Workstation to Silverblue = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Silverblue Owner(s): * Matthias Clasen The Atomic Workstation variant is being renamed to Fedora Silverblue. == Detailed description == The Atomic Workstation is being rebranded

F29 Self Contained Change: glibc 32 Build Adjustments

2018-06-19 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: glibc 32 Build Adjustments = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/glibc32_Build_Adjustments Owner(s): * Florian Weimer The glibc32 package is a special package used by gcc and a few other packages to work around the lack of RPM multilib repository support

F29 System Wide Change: Build non-RELRO ELF binaries with .plt.got isolation

2018-06-18 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Build non-RELRO ELF binaries with .plt.got isolation = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/.plt.got_Isolation Owner(s): * Florian Weimer Fedora 23 enabled hardening for all packages. However, some ELF binaries still use lazy binding. This change proposes

F29 System Wide Change: Binutils 2.31

2018-06-17 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Binutils 2.31 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BINUTILS231 Owner(s): * Nick Clifton Rebase the binutils package from version 2.30 to version 2.31. == Detailed description == Switch the binutils package from being based on the 2.30 release of the FSF

F29 System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default

2018-06-17 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefault Owner(s): * Javier Martinez Canillas * Peter Jones Use BootLoaderSpec fragment files by default to populate the bootloaders boot menu entries. == Detailed

FESCo Elections - May 2018 : Results announcement

2018-06-14 Thread Jan Kurik
Greetings, all! The elections for FESCo - May 2018 have concluded, and the results are shown below. FESCo is electing 4 seats this time. A total of 86 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 430 votes (86 * 5). The results for the elections are as follows: # votes |

F29 System Wide Change: Golang 1.11

2018-06-13 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Golang 1.11 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/golang1.11 Owner(s): * Jakub Čajka Rebase of Golang package to upcoming version 1.11 in Fedora 29, including rebuild of all dependent packages(pre-release version of Go will be used for rebuild, if released

Elections for Mindshare - May 2018 - Result announcement

2018-06-06 Thread Jan Kurik
Greetings, all! The elections for Mindshare - May 2018 [1] have concluded, and the results are shown below. Mindshare committee is electing 1 seat this time. A total of 107 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 321 votes (107 * 3). The results for the elections are as

Elections for Council - May 2018 - Result announcement

2018-06-06 Thread Jan Kurik
Greetings, all! The elections for Council - May 2018 [1] have concluded, and the results are shown below. Fedora Council is electing 1 seat this time. A total of 110 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 220 votes (110 * 2). The results for the elections are as follows:

Fedora Elections May 2018 - Voting period of FESCo elections has started

2018-06-06 Thread Jan Kurik
Hi, the Voting period of the currently running Fedora Elections [0] has just started. Please vote for your candidates to FESCo [1]. You can vote till June 13th, 2018 when the voting ends at 23:59:59 UTC. On Community blog [2] you can also find interviews with all the candidates. Please have a

F29 Self Contained Change: Changes/Update festival to 2.5

2018-06-05 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Changes/Update festival to 2.5 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Update_festival_to_2.5 Owner(s): * Lukáš Tyrychtr Update the packaged festival speech synthesis system to the latest upstream version. And just as a bonus make it actually work. ==

F29 System Wide Change: NSS load p11-kit modules by default

2018-06-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: NSS load p11-kit modules by default = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NSSLoadP11KitModules Owner(s): * Daiki Ueno When NSS database is created, PKCS#11 modules configured in the system's p11-kit will be automatically registered and visible to NSS

F29 System Wide Change: i686 Is For x86-64

2018-06-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: i686 Is For x86-64 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/i686_Is_For_x86-64 Owner(s): * Florian Weimer Fedora builds its i686 packages for use on x86-64 systems as multi-lib RPMs. == Detailed description == Currently, the i686 RPM packages are built in

F29 System Wide Change: Strong crypto settings: phase 2

2018-06-01 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Strong crypto settings: phase 2 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StrongCryptoSettings2 Owner(s): * Tomáš Mráz We update the current system-wide crypto policy to further disable legacy cryptographic protocols (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) and weak

F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu Owner(s): * Hans de Goede On systems with only a single OS installed, the grub menu does not offer any useful functionality, so we should hide it by default. == Detailed description

Fedora Elections May 2018 - Voting period has started for Council and Mindshare elections

2018-05-30 Thread Jan Kurik
Hi, the Voting period of the currently running Fedora Elections [0] has just started. Please vote for your candidates to Council [1] and Mindshare [2]. You can vote till June 6th, 2018 when the voting ends at 23:59:59 UTC. On Community blog [3] you can also find interviews with all the

F29 System Wide Change: Node.js 10.x as default Node.js interpreter

2018-05-30 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Node.js 10.x as default Node.js interpreter = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Nodejs10 Owner(s): * Stephen Gallagher A major upgrade to the newest LTS release of Node.js for Fedora 29. == Detailed description == Node.js releases a new LTS version

F29 Self Contained Change: java-11-openjdk - next LTS OpenJDK release and future main JDK in Fedora

2018-05-28 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: java-11-openjdk - next LTS OpenJDK release and future main JDK in Fedora = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/java-11-openjdk-TechPreview Owner(s): * Jiri Vanek OpenJDK have LTS release cadence of 2 years. JDK11, next LTS is to be released September

F29 System Wide Change: Perl Move to MetaCPAN

2018-05-25 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Perl Move to MetaCPAN = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Perl_Move_to_MetaCPAN Owner(s): * Petr Písař http://search.cpan.org/ search.cpan.org web frontend for 'https://www.cpan.org/ CPAN is being replaced by https://metacpan.org/ metacpan.org. Many Perl

May 2018 Elections: Nomination period for FESCo has been prolonged till May 31st @ 23:59:59 UTC

2018-05-24 Thread Jan Kurik
Hi Fellowship of Fedora, as we have not reach the minimal number of nominees to FESCo required by FESCo election policy [1], to get ready for voting, FESCo has decided to prolong the nomination period for one week. As such, the Nomination period has been re-opened until May 31st @ 23:59:59 UTC.

F29 System Wide Change: Move /usr/bin/python into a separate package

2018-05-23 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Move /usr/bin/python into a separate package = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Move_usr_bin_python_into_separate_package Owner(s): * Petr Viktorin * Miro Hrončok Reflecting the recent changes of https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ PEP 394 --

F29 System Wide Change: The tzdata transition to 'vanguard' format

2018-05-22 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: The tzdata transition to 'vanguard' format = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/TZDATA-VANGUARD Owner(s): * Patsy Franklin As of tzdata-2018e, the upstream will now default to using the 'vanguard' data format including negative DST offsets. As a

F29 System Wide Change: Perl 5.28

2018-05-22 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Perl 5.28 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/perl5.28 Owner(s): * Jitka Plesníková * Petr Písař A new ''perl 5.28'' version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.28 will be released 5/28/2018. See

May 2018 Elections: Nomination & Campaign period is open

2018-05-15 Thread Jan Kurik
Today we are starting the Nomination & Campaign period during which we accept nominations to the "steering bodies" of the following teams: * FESCo (Engineering) (4 seats) [1] * Fedora Council (1 seat) [2] * Mindshare (1 seat) [3] This period is open until 2018-May-22 at 23:59:59 UTC. The

F29 System Wide Change: Let's Label Our Variants!

2018-05-15 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Let's Label Our Variants! = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Label_Our_Variants Owner(s): * Matthew Miller * Mohan Boddu Start using the VARIANT and VARIANT_ID fields in /etc/os-release for Spins, Labs and the base container image rather than just the

F29 Self Contained Change: MySQL 8

2018-05-07 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: MySQL 8 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MySQL_8 Owner(s): * Michal Schorm Update of MySQL ( community-mysql package) in Fedora from 5.7 to 8.0 version. == Detailed description == Update of MySQL package in Fedora from 5.7 version to 8.0

Fedora 28 Final status is GO

2018-04-26 Thread Jan Kurik
The Fedora_28_RC_1.1 compose [1] is considered as GOLD and it is going to be shipped on 2018-May-01 as Fedora 28 Final release. For more information please check the meeting minutes [2] from the Go/No-Go meeting. [1] http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/28_RC-1.1/ [2]

Fedora 28 Final Release Readiness Meeting on Thursday, April 26 @ 19:00 UTC

2018-04-19 Thread Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for the Fedora 28 Final Release Readiness Meeting meeting. The meeting is going to be held on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. Please check the [1] link for your time zone. We will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the Final

Fedora 28 Final release Go/No-Go Meeting on Thursday, April 26 @ 17:00 UTC

2018-04-19 Thread Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 28 Final. The meeting is going to be held on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 17:00 UTC. Please check the [1] link for your time zone. Before each public release

Fedora 28 Beta status is GO, release on April 03, 2018

2018-03-29 Thread Jan Kurik
The Fedora 28 Beta RC3 compose [1] is considered as GOLD and is going to be shipped live on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018. For more information please check the Go/No-Go meeting minutes [2] or logs [3]. I would like to thank all the people who were and are still working on this release. [1]

F28 Self Contained Change: Stop building 389-ds-base on i686

2018-03-27 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Stop building 389-ds-base on i686 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/389-ds-base-remove-686 Owner(s): * Mark Reynolds 389-ds-base does not work properly on i686 hardware in regards to atomic types. == Detailed description == 389-ds project have

F29 System Wide Change: Ruby on Rails 5.2

2018-03-26 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Ruby on Rails 5.2 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ruby_on_Rails_5.2 Owner(s): * Pavel Valena * Vít Ondruch * Jun Aruga Ruby on Rails 5.2 is the latest version of well known web framework written in Ruby. == Detailed description == The Ruby on

Fedora 28 Beta status is NO-GO

2018-03-22 Thread Jan Kurik
Release status of the Fedora 28 Beta is NO-GO. Due to missing RC for the F28 Beta release and presence of blocker bugs, the decision is “No Go”. The Beta release slips for one week to “Target #1” date (April 3rd). We are not going to slip the Final GA yet. For more information please check the

F29 System Wide Change: Python 3.7

2018-03-20 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: Python 3.7 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python3.7 Owner(s): * Charalampos Stratakis * Miro Hrončok * Tomáš Orsava * Petr Viktorin Update the Python 3 stack in Fedora from Python 3.6 to Python 3.7. == Detailed description == Python 3.7

Fedora 28 Beta Release Readiness Meeting on Thursday, March 22 @ 19:00 UTC

2018-03-20 Thread Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for the Fedora 28 Beta Release Readiness Meeting meeting. The meeting is going to be held on Thursday, March 22, 2017 at 19:00 UTC. Please check the [1] link for your time zone. We will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the Beta

Fedora 28 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting on Thursday, March 22 @ 17:00 UTC

2018-03-20 Thread Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 28 Beta. The meeting is going to be held on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 17:00 UTC. Please check the [1] link for your time zone. Before each public release

F29 Self Contained Change: OpenLDAP: Drop MozNSS Compatibility Layer

2018-03-09 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: OpenLDAP: Drop MozNSS Compatibility Layer = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenLDAPdropMozNSSCompatibilityLayer Owner(s): * Matus Honek Since Fedora 28, OpenLDAP is compiled with OpenSSL instead of NSS and includes MozNSS Compatiblity Layer (i.e.

Software Translation Deadline has been reached

2018-03-06 Thread Jan Kurik
Today on 2018-Mar-06 [1] we have reached the Software Translation Deadline [2]. At this time all the strings translations should be substantially finished. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N_Freezes#Translation_Deadline Regards, Jan --

Fedora 28 Change Checkpoint: 100% Code Complete Deadline & Beta Freeze

2018-03-06 Thread Jan Kurik
Today, on 2018-Mar-06, we reach two important milestones of the Fedora 28 release [1]: == Change Checkpoint: 100% Code Complete Deadline [2] == * New accepted changes must be code complete, meaning all the code required to enable a new Change is finished. * The level of code completeness is

REMINDER: Fedora 28 Change Checkpoint: 100% Code Complete Deadline & Beta Freeze in 1 week

2018-02-27 Thread Jan Kurik
The next Tuesday, on 2018-Mar-06, we will reach two important milestones of the Fedora 28 release [1]: == Change Checkpoint: 100% Code Complete Deadline [2] == * New accepted changes must be code complete, meaning all the code required to enable to the new change is finished. * The level of code

F29 Self Contained Change: FedoraScientific VagrantBox

2018-02-17 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: FedoraScientific VagrantBox = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraScientific_VagrantBox Owner(s): * Amit Saha Fedora Scientific is currently delivered as ISOs. Shipping vagrant boxes will give potential users a friendlier option to try out Fedora

F29 Self Contained Change: Drop Legacy GTK+ GUI in wireshark

2018-02-16 Thread Jan Kurik
Proposed Self Contained Change: Drop Legacy GTK+ GUI in wireshark https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Drop_Legacy_GTK+_GUI_in_wireshark Owner(s): * Michal Ruprich == Detailed description == Since wireshark-2.0 there are two GUIs availble for use. One is based on GTK+ and the other on Qt.

F29 Self Contained Change: True Noarch Erlang Packages

2018-02-16 Thread Jan Kurik
Proposed Self Contained Change: True Noarch Erlang Packages https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/TrueNoarchErlangPackages Owner(s): * Randy Barlow Erlang packages are currently all installed into %{_libdir}/erlang/lib, despite most of them being noarch packages. This proposal is to modify

F29 Self Contained Change: No more automagic Python bytecompilation

2018-02-16 Thread Jan Kurik
Proposed Self Contained Change: No more automagic Python bytecompilation https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/No_more_automagic_Python_bytecompilation Owner(s): * Miro Hrončok * Petr Viktorin The current way of automatic Python byte-compiling of files outside Python-specific

F29 Self Contained Change: BINUTILS 2.30

2018-02-16 Thread Jan Kurik
Proposed Self Contained Change: BINUTILS 2.30 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BINUTILS230 Owner(s): * Nick Clifton Rebase the binutils package from version 2.29 .1 to version 2.30. This will bring in bug-fixes and some new features. == Detailed description == Switch the binutils

Council Elections - January 2018 - Result announcement

2018-01-24 Thread Jan Kurik
Greetings, all! The elections for Council - January 2018 have concluded, and the results are shown below. Council is electing 2 seats this time. A total of 142 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 710 votes (142 * 5). The results for the elections are as follows: #

F28 Self Contained Change: Chinese Default Fonts to Google Noto

2018-01-17 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Chinese Default Fonts to Google Noto = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ChineseDefaultFontsToNoto Change owner(s): * Peng Wu Changes the default fonts for Chinese to Google Noto. == Detailed Description == Changes the default fonts for Chinese to Google

Fedora Elections January 2018 - Voting period has started

2018-01-16 Thread Jan Kurik
Hi, the Voting period of the currently running Fedora Elections [0] has just started. Please vote for your candidates to Council [1], Mindshare [2] and FESCo [3]. You can vote till January 24th, 2018 when the voting ends at 23:59:59 UTC. On Community blog [4] you can also find interviews with

F28 System Wide Change: Rename "nobody" user

2018-01-10 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: Rename "nobody" user = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RenameNobodyUser Change owner(s): *Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek * Lennart Poettering Use "nobody:nobody" as the names for the kernel overflow UID:GID pair, and retire the old "nfsnobody" name and the old

F28 Self Contained Change: Avoid /usr/bin/python in RPM build

2018-01-09 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Avoid /usr/bin/python in RPM build = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Avoid_usr_bin_python_in_RPM_Build Change owner(s): * Petr Viktorin * Miro Hrončok Deprecate, and later disable, running /usr/bin/python (as opposed to /usr/bin/python3 or

Fedora 28 Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (Changes requiring mass rebuild & system wide changes)

2018-01-09 Thread Jan Kurik
Greetings! Today, on 2018-Jan-09, we have reached Fedora 28 Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (Changes requiring mass rebuild & system wide changes) [1]. At this point, only Self Contained Changes will be accepted for Fedora 28. Any Change Proposal requiring mass rebuild or a

F28 System Wide Change: NIS switching to new libnsl to support IPv6

2018-01-09 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: NIS switching to new libnsl to support IPv6 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NISIPv6 Change owner(s): * Matej Muzila * Honza Horak This system-wide change covers the switch of NIS components to the new client side implementation in order to support IPv6, while

F28 System Wide Change: IBus Unicode Typing

2018-01-09 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: IBus Unicode Typing = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/IBus_Unicode_Typing Change owner(s): * Takao Fujiwara IBus core provides an Emoji dialog which users can type emoji annotations and output the emoji character using IBus (E.g. Typing "football" shows U+26BD). The

F28 System Wide Change: Fedora 28 Boost 1.66 upgrade

2018-01-09 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: Fedora 28 Boost 1.66 upgrade = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F28Boost166 Change owner(s): * Jonathan Wakely This change brings Boost 1.66.0 to Fedora 28. This will mean F28 ships with a recent upstream Boost release. == Detailed Description == The aim is to

F28 System Wide Change: Add-On Modularity

2018-01-09 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: Add-On Modularity = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F28AddonModularity Change owner(s): * Stephen Gallagher * Langdon White == Detailed Description == Beginning in Fedora 28, Fedora will provide a new set of repositories for software and updates with alternative

F28 System Wide Change: Kerberos in Python modernization

2018-01-05 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: Kerberos in Python modernization = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/kerberos-in-python-modernization Change owner(s): * Robbie Harwood Replace usage of python-krbV and pykerberos with python-gssapi in all Fedora packages to enable their removal from Fedora. rharwood

F28 System Wide Change: Golang 1.10

2018-01-05 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: Golang 1.10 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/golang1.10 Change owner(s): * Jakub Čajka Rebase of Golang package to upcoming version 1.10 in Fedora 28, including rebuild of all dependent packages(pre-release version of Go will be used for rebuild, if released

Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (System Wide Changes & Changes requiring mass rebuild) on Fedora 28 on Tuesday 2018-01-09

2018-01-05 Thread Jan Kurik
Hi everyone! On Tuesday 2018-01-09 is the submission deadline for System Wide Changes & Changes requiring mass rebuild of Fedora 28 [1]. Please make sure your Change proposals are submitted for review before this deadline. Self Contained Changes proposals submission deadline is planned then on

F28 System Wide Change: Hardening Flags Updates for Fedora 28

2018-01-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: Hardening Flags Updates for Fedora 28 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HardeningFlags28 Change owner(s): * Florian Weimer This system-wide change covers changes to the hardening flags in Fedora 28. == Detailed Description == * Compile all binaries with stack

F28 Self Contained Change: VirtualBox Guest Integration

2018-01-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: VirtualBox Guest Integration = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/VirtualBox_Guest_Integration Change owner(s): * Hans de Goede VirtualBox is popular, easy to use virtual-machine software. The purpose of this change is to ship the VirtualBox guest-drivers

F28 Self Contained Change: Fontconfig 2.13

2018-01-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Fontconfig 2.13 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fontconfig_2.13 Change owner(s): * Akira TAGOH Update fontconfig package to the latest version. == Detailed Description == Update fontconfig package to the latest version which contains the following

F28 Self Contained Change: Korean Default Fonts to Google Noto

2018-01-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Korean Default Fonts to Google Noto = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/KRDefaultFontsToNoto Change owner(s): * Akira TAGOH Changes the default fonts for Korean to Google Noto. == Detailed Description == Changes the default fonts for Korean to Google

F28 Self Contained Change: Japanese Default Fonts to Google Noto

2018-01-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Japanese Default Fonts to Google Noto = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/JPDefaultFontsToNoto Change owner(s): * Akira TAGOH Changes the default fonts for Japanese to Google Noto. == Detailed Description == Changes the default fonts for Japanese to

Elections in January 2018 to FESCo, Council, Mindshare - the schedule

2017-12-15 Thread Jan Kurik
Hi, I have published schedule for elections in January 2018 on the Elections [1] wiki page. The schedule is as follows: * Dec 15 - Jan 02: Selection of questions from Questionnaire * Jan 03 - Jan 10: Nomination period * Jan 11 - Jan 15: Interviews * Jan 16 - Jan 16: Voting Setup & Validation &

F28 Self Contained Change: Django 2.0

2017-12-12 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Django 2.0 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Django20 Change owner(s): * Matthias Runge * Miro Hrončok * Petr Viktorin This change is about upgrading python-django to version 2.0. The latest Django release drops support for Python 2, but a few Django

F28 Self Contained Change: librealsense2

2017-12-12 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: librealsense2 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/librealsense2 Change owner(s): * Till Hofmann A new version of librealsense has been released, which does not support older camera versions. Bump librealsense to the new release

Autumn Elections 2017 are cancelled

2017-12-07 Thread Jan Kurik
During the Autumn 2017 Election cycle we wanted to try a new approach in the way how Elections are organized [1]. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the Voting period we realized the new way does not work as expected [2] and even we tried to put some mitigation plan in place [3], we have not

F28 Self Contained Change: Stratis Storage

2017-12-06 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Stratis Storage = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StratisStorage Change owner(s): * Andy Grover * Igor Gnatenko Add initial support for Stratis, a local storage management solution. This will allow initial testing and user feedback that will guide

Autumn Elections 2017: Interviews with candidates are postponed on December 12th, 2017

2017-12-04 Thread Jan Kurik
Due to some technical and organizational difficulties we are going to delay the publishing of interviews to December 12th, 2017. Interviews with candidates which are ready to be published are going to be scheduled for December 12th. I am going to work with the remaining candidates on their

Autumn Elections 2017: Voting period for Council and Mindshare is open

2017-12-04 Thread Jan Kurik
The Voting period for Mindshare and Council has just started. Please follow the links bellow to vote for new members of Mindshare and Council teams: Mindshare voting: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/mindshare-autumn-2017 Council voting:

Autumn Elections 2017: Voting period for FESCo postponed for 3 days

2017-12-04 Thread Jan Kurik
For the currently running election cycle (Autumn 2017) to FESCo, we have open 5 seats. During the Nomination period we have received 6 nominations to FESCo [1]. As the following rules of the FESCo election policy [2] are declaring : * A minimum number of candidates are necessary in order to hold

F28 System Wide Change: Reduce Initial Setup Redundancy

2017-12-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: Reduce Initial Setup Redundancy = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReduceInitialSetupRedundancy Change owner(s): * Michael Catanzaro Currently there is a high level of redundancy between the Anaconda installer and gnome-initial-setup. This change aims to eliminate

F28 System Wide Change: Switch libcurl to use libssh instead of libssh2

2017-12-04 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change:Switch libcurl to use libssh instead of libssh2 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/libssh-in-libcurl Change owner(s): * Kamil Dudka libcurl currently uses libssh2 to implement the SSH layer of SCP and SFTP protocols. After implementing this change, libcurl will use

REMINDER: Autumn Elections 2017: Nomination & Campaign period ends today @ 23:59:59 UTC

2017-12-04 Thread Jan Kurik
Currently we have Nomination & Campaign period [1] in progress and we still accept nominations to "steering bodies" of the following teams: * FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats) [2] * Fedora Council (2 seats) [3] * Mindshare (2 seats) [4] This period ends today on 2017-Dec-04 at 23:59:59 UTC. The

REMINDER: Autumn Elections 2017: Nomination & Campaign period is in progress

2017-12-01 Thread Jan Kurik
Currently we have Nomination & Campaign period [1] in progress and we still accept nominations to "steering bodies" of the following teams: * FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats) [2] * Fedora Council (2 seats) [3] * Mindshare (2 seats) [4] This period is open until 2017-Dec-04 at 23:59:59 UTC.

F28 Self Contained Change: OpenLDAP: Drop TCP wrappers support

2017-11-30 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: OpenLDAP: Drop TCP wrappers support = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenLDAPDropTCPWrappersSupport Change owner(s): * Matus Honek As per [1], TCP wrappers are being deprecated in Fedora. Also, as per [2], upstream discourages its usage in favour of

F28 Self Contained Change: Erlang 20

2017-11-23 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Erlang 20 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Erlang_20 Change owner(s): * Peter Lemenkov * Fedora Erlang SIG * Randy Barlow * Jeremy Cline Update Erlang/OTP to version 20. == Detailed Description == Upgrade Erlang to version 20 which brings a lot of

Autumn Elections 2017: Nomination & Campaign period is open

2017-11-20 Thread Jan Kurik
For this Election cycle [1] we are going to follow a new way how Elections are organized. It is an outcome of a discussion on Council level [2] trying to improve participation of the Fedora Community in the election process. Today we are starting Nomination & Campaign period when we accept

F28 System Wide Change: Improved Laptop Battery Life

2017-11-16 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: Improved Laptop Battery Life = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ImprovedLaptopBatteryLife Change owner(s): * Hans de Goede Improve Fedora (Workstation) Battery Life by enabling various hardware power-saving features by default. == Detailed Description == The

Fedora 27 Modular Server Beta status is GO

2017-11-09 Thread Jan Kurik
The Fedora-Modular-27-20171108.2 RC compose [1][2] is considered as GOLD and is going to be shipped on 2017-Nov-14 as F27 Modular Server Beta release. For more information please check the meeting minutes [3] from the Go/No-Go meeting. [1]

Fedora 27 Final status is GO

2017-11-09 Thread Jan Kurik
The Fedora-27-20171105.0 (Fedora_27_RC_1.6 ) compose [1][2] is considered as GOLD and is going to be shipped on 2017-Nov-14 as Fedora 27 Final release. For more information please check the meeting minutes [3] from the Go/No-Go meeting. [1]

Fedora 27 Final status is NO-GO

2017-11-06 Thread Jan Kurik
Release status of the Fedora 27 Final is NO-GO. The next Go/No-Go meeting is planned on Thursday, November 9th. The GA date for the F27 Final release moves 2017-Nov-14. For more details please check the Go/No-Go meeting minutes[1]. [1]

F28 System Wide Change: Ruby 2.5

2017-11-06 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change:Ruby 2.5 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ruby_2.5 Change owner(s): * Vít Ondruch Ruby 2.5 is the latest stable version of Ruby. Many new features and improvements are included for the increasingly diverse and expanding demands for Ruby. With this major update from

F28 Self Contained Change: Sugar 0.112

2017-11-06 Thread Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Sugar 0.112 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Sugar-112 Change owner(s): * Peter Robinson Update Sugar to the new upstream 0.112 stable feature release. == Detailed Description == We want to provide the new version of the Sugar desktop environment as

Fedora 27 Server Beta status (4th round) is NO-GO

2017-11-02 Thread Jan Kurik
Due to missing RC for the F27 Server Beta release the release status of the Fedora 27 Server Beta is NO-GO. The next Go/No-Go meeting is planned on Thursday, November 9th. The F27 Server Beta release slips for one week on 2017-Nov-14. The slip also affects the F27 Server GA and it moves to

Fedora 27 Server Beta status (3rd round) is NO-GO

2017-10-26 Thread Jan Kurik
Release status of the Fedora 27 Server Beta is NO-GO. The next Go/No-Go meeting is planned on Thursday, November 2nd together with second round of F27 Final Go/No-Go meeting. The F27 Server Beta release slips for one week. The slip also affects the F27 Server GA, it moves to 2017-Dec-19 having

F28 System Wide Change: NSS Default File Format SQL

2017-10-26 Thread Jan Kurik
= System Wide Change: NSS Default File Format SQL = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NSSDefaultFileFormatSql Change owner(s): * Kai Engert Change the NSS library default to use the sqlite based data storage, when applications don't specify their preferred storage file

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