Fedora Electronic Lab 11 Leonidas Released
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Fedora Project - This week announced [1] the availability of Fedora 11
Leonidas and its spins. These spins provide different flavours of
Fedora 11 targeting specific users and applications.
The fourth consecutive release of Fedora Electronic Lab is part of
those spins, offering the best hardware design and simulation
experience with opensource EDA software.
Fedora Electronic Lab 11 Leonidas provides a vibrant environment for
designing and simulating ASIC design and embedded design. The
opensource EDA solutions are composed to satify high-end mixed-signal
hardware design flows from design specification to final project
handoff. This release comprises Perl modules to facilitate both
design, HDL code generation and brings additional support for
Engineering Change Order (ECO). After post chip fabrication,
evaluation boards of those chips can also be designed.
Advantages
* Deployable in both development and production environments.
* No kernel patches are required, making it easy to deploy and use.
* No licenses required and it is free.
Key Highlights
Existing RPM packages were updated improve design experience in terms
of development time and debugging. The key highlights of the major
development items puts the quality barrier higher than the previous
releases:
* Perl modules to extend vhdl and verilog support. These Perl
modules together with gtkwave improves chip testing support.
* Perl parsers for VHDL, Verilog and SystemC.
* Introduced collaborative development solutions.
* Introduction of Verilog-AMS modeling into ngspice.
* Improved VHDL debugging support with gcov.
* Improved support for re-usable HDL packages as IP core.
* Improved PLI support on both iverilog and ghdl
* Introduction of C-based methodologies for HDL testbenches and models.
* Improved co-simulation based hardware design.
* Introduction of design tools for DSP design flow.
Eclipse, the comprehensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
for embedded systems is also part of the collection. This IDE is
included for the first time on the Livedvd (but available since a long
time on Fedora repositories) entails plugins for C++, Perl and Version
Control systems (CVS,GIT,SVN).
Download the Fedora Electronic Lab 11 flyer for additional details [3] .
Userbase
* Students/researchers
* Lecturers
* Analog/Digital/Mixed Signal hardware designers (even Test engineers)
* System Electronic Engineers
* Project Coordinators
* New opensource EDA developers
* Field application engineers
About Fedora Electronic Lab
Fedora Electronic Lab is Fedora's high-end hardware design and
simulation platform. This platform provides different hardware design
flows based on the semiconductor industry's current trend. FEL maps in
new design, simulation and verification methodologies with opensource
EDA software.
For more information and download, go to the website [2].
[1]: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00006.html
[2]: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL
[3]: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/fel-flyer-f11.pdf
This announcement in pictures:
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-electronic-lab-11-leonidas....
--
Chitlesh GOORAH
Fedora Electronic Lab Architect
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL
14 years, 10 months
Announcing Fedora 11
by Paul W. Frields
Ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Explorers Club! Your attention
please. It falls to me to be the host of our proceedings to-day, as we
celebrate a great achievement in the annals of this hallowed
organization -- the discovery of what is truly a magnificent specimen
among all FOSSdom. When Dr. Brattlesworth and I began this safari more
than six months ago, we knew full well the many snares, toils, and
dangers that awaited us along the hundreds of miles of tracking our
quarry across the plains. But we also maintained a steadfast belief
that by living with the land, and becoming part of the larger
ecosystem where this incredible animal takes refuge, we could record
for posterity the way of life of that marvelous creature -- the
Leonidas!
What's that? Oh, yes, dear me, the slides. I know you didn't come all
this way to hear my prattle, so let's say we, ah, get right down to
brass tacks as it were! Ho-ho! Yes, here we can see an exquisite scene
of the beast at repose, secure in his den, thanks to the mandatory
access control enhancements, which the astute among you will know
better as "SELinux", to his virtualization systems. Upon closer
inspection of his habitat we reveal further improvements to his
virtualization lair, including the merging of KVM and QEMU, stronger
VNC authentication for guests and a much enhanced
virt-manager. Finally, we were able to determine, as you'll see in
this slide, that our crafty king of beasts has secured his lair using
the protection of integrated fingerprint authentication and DNSSEC.
Next slide please, Dr. Brattlesworth -- Here, we find the quadruped
leaping to action in a flash with its 20-second startup -- and do
observe the animal's graceful form, achieved through kernel mode
setting and Plymouth. We discovered, upon further examination, that
the Leonidas maintains his sleek figure through the help of his new
Presto feature, which allows him to keep his bandwidth trim while
digesting updates that keep him healthy and content. By this point,
Dr. Brattlesworth was positively ecstatic about our discovery, and I
had to calm the poor chap down with some of the local fire-water. That
was a rum morning, wasn't it, my dear fellow? Ha ha!
Oh, balderdash, where was I? Ah yes, next slide. Here we see a diagram
of the cranial capacity of the average member of his species, compared
with that of our subject the Leonidas. Through a form of advanced
evolution to which Dr. Brattlesworth and I refer as "Free and Open
Source Software Development Methods," he has developed the
sophisticated abilities to comprehend code using GCC 4.4, Python 2.6
and NetBeans 6.5, and to patrol a much larger area of space quickly,
using his support for the Ext4 file system
Ah, my favorite slide is next! Here we see the Leonidas at the end of
a day as the full moon rises above the plain, safe and sound with his
new more understandable and flexible volume control. Oh-ho! Perhaps
those among you not asleep in your easy chairs by the fire, or
otherwise engaged in deep conversation, sparked no doubt by our
fascinating presentation, saw my little play at sonic humour. *ahem*
Yes, well.
So now that you have seen the results of our intrepid safari into the
land inhabited by the Leonidas -- truly a worthy quarry, and a wonder
for us to behold, which we are proud to share with you, our
colleagues, as always. I hope that you, like I -- and I trust my dear
fellow adventurer Dr. Brattlesworth -- are already eager to return to
the veldt and witness the next stage of growth of this superlative
creature. Do enjoy your handouts, which are all provided on this
marvelous new invention called the 'live compact-disc,' and which you
may feel absolutely confident in passing on to your many associates
and other curious passers-by.
Let us adjourn now to the smoking room for our brandy and cigars!
* * *
Get your copy of Fedora 11 today: http://get.fedoraproject.org/
For complete details of all the new features:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/index.html
* * *
If you need assistance with installing Fedora, please check out our
Installation Guide at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/
Join the many thousands of Fedora participants and contributors:
http://join.fedoraproject.org/
If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 11 Release Party
near you: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
14 years, 10 months
RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories for Fedora 11 (Leonidas) now available
by Thorsten Leemhuis
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The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our
''free'' and ''nonfree'' package repositories for Fedora 11 (Leonidas).
The repositories contain multimedia applications, kernel drivers, games
and other software the Fedora Project doesn't want to ship for various
reasons.
RPM Fusion repositories give Fedora 11 the ability to play all kinds of
audio and video formats -- including, but not limited to MP3s or video
files in MPEG or Xvid formats.
You can browse the repository contents for the i386 architecture via
these URLs (x86-64, ppc and ppc64 are supported as well):
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os...
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386...
To make RPM Fusion repositories available on a freshly installed Fedora
11 system run the following command:
{{{
su -c 'rpm -ivh \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable....
\
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-s...'
}}}
(Reminder: You need to cut'n'paste all three lines)
More details and a GUI based way how to configure and use RPM Fusion can
be found in our wiki at http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
You can also enable RPM Fusion while installing Fedora 11 -- details and
some screenshots that should give you an idea how everything works can
be found at http://rpmfusion.org/EnablingRpmFusionDuringFedoraInstall
Please note that the graphics drivers from AMD are not available in
the repositories right now as they are not compatible with the Kernel
from Fedora 11. Note that the Nvidia drivers are available via the
updates-repos only.
There is still a lot of room for a whole lot of improvements in RPM
Fusion. If you want to help then join us! Our mailing lists can be found
at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo
Thanks for you interest in RPM Fusion.
~ The RPM Fusion Team (http://rpmfusion.org)
== More details ==
=== Reminder for the folks that plan to yum-update to Fedora 11 ===
If you have RPM Fusion packages installed on your system already and
plan to live-update to Fedora 11 using yum then please leave the RPM
Fusion repositories enabled for the big "yum update" run. Only then
you'll get all the updated packages from RPM Fusion as well, which is
important, as their dependencies get fulfilled by the Fedora 11
packages. That's not the case for the old packages that are on your
system right now -- those in fact have dependencies on the older Fedora
bits you are about to update, which will lead to a lot of trouble.
Please note that we use a different key to sign packages in the repos
for Fedora 11. Installing the latest rpmfusion-free-release
rpmfusion-nonfree-release packages from the updates-repos before doing
the big update run should make things "just work".
=== Examples to get the most important bits from RPM Fusion ===
Once you installed the release rpm you can install software using the
graphical software installation tools which are part of Fedora. As
root-user you can also use yum on a command line to install packages;
for example:
~ * GNOME: PackageKit will normally install all codecs on demand for
apps that use gstreamer as backend; if you want to get them manually run
this command as root:
{{{
# yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad\
gstreamer-plugins-ugly
}}}
~ * KDE: xine-lib is used as default backend for apps that use phonon;
to make it able to play more audio and video formats run
{{{
# yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld
}}}
~ * if you want to use mplayer, run one ofthe following commands
{{{
# yum install mplayer-gui
# yum install gnome-mplayer
}}}
~ * if you prefer VLC, run
{{{
# yum install vlc
}}}
~ * want to PGP sign or encrypt your mails using thunderbird? Then run:
{{{
# yum install thunderbird-enigmail
}}}
=== PAE Remider ===
Fedora 11 installs a PAE-Kernel on most modern
x86-32(i386/ix86)-Systems. If that's the case on your system then you
need to use command like "yum install kmod-PAE-nvidia" (note the "-PAE"
in the middle!) to get the kmods that match the kernel from Fedora. More
details can be found in this blog post:
http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-kernel-pae-and-what-it-me...
=== Problems? ===
Let us know via http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/
=== Need support? ===
Many people in #fedora and #rpmfusion on freenode as well as subscribers
on rpmfusion-users(a)lists.rpmfusion.org know how to help.
=== Developer contact ===
Meet us in #rpmfusion on freenode or join the mailing list at
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo
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14 years, 10 months
Fedora Weekly News 179
by Pascal Calarco
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 Spanish 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-list(a)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/msg00001.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/msg00004.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/msg00002.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_Cycl...
---- 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 volunteering at an event near you!
June 8-10: FAD Fedora Development Cycle[1] in Raleigh, North Carolina.
June 9: Fedora 11 Release Party[2] in Managua, Nicaragua.
June 13: Fedora 11 Release Party[3] in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
June 12-13: VCNSL[4] in Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela.
June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[5] in Clemson, South Carolina.
June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[6] in Clemson, South Carolina
June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[7] in Portland, Oregon.
June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[8] in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
June 24-27: LinuxTag[9] in Berlin, Germany.
June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[10] in Berlin, Germany.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycl...
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora_UCA_jun09
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Wau
4. http://cnsl.org.ve/
5. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009
8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009
9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009
10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009
-- 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 ---
Thorsten Leemhuis explained[1] why he believes that Fedora should ensure that kmods work well, while leaving the actual kmods themselves in RPM Fusion.
Jack Aboutboul linked[2] to the Fedora 11 Podcast interview with Jonathan Dieter about Presto, which allows users to update their RPM-based system without having to download entire RPM files (only their deltas are downloaded).
Jef Spaleta announced[3] that a record 1,996,040 unique IPs accessed fedoraproject.org over May 2009.
Peter Hutterer explained[4] how X handles mouse button mappings (it's not as easy as you think!) and continued[5] with "XI2 Recipes, Part 1" and example programs that can support multiple mouse cursors and keyboard foci.
Karsten Wade wrote[6] about the process necessary to vote in the FESCo and Fedora Board election, from signing the CLA to joining a contributing sub-project.
Jack Aboutboul interviewed[7] Bastien Nocera, "long time Fedora Contributor and Desktop Renaissance Man" about authentication and fingerprinting in F11/12.
Dave Malcolm released[8] a new version (0.4) of squeal, the command line text query tool, with a number of new features include the ability to handle arbitrary text files (split on whitespace like awk, or use regular expressions) and support for pcap (tcpdump/wireshark) dump files.
Max Spevack answered[9] the age-old question "why is Fedora always released on a Tuesday?"
Paul W. Frields published[10] a "Fedora teams’ call to action" which might be described as a number of important points to make Fedora teams more "sustainable" (how would a team cope if a contributor was eaten by a dinosaur?)
1. http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/06/leave-kmods-in-rpm-fusion-but-make-...
2. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-podcast-series-5-presto-...
3. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/43194.html
4. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/06/button-mapping-in-x.html
5. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/05/xi2-recipes-part-1.html
6. http://iquaid.org/2009/06/03/power-from-the-people-power-for-the-people/
7. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-raise-thy-might-finger.html
8. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3069.html
9. http://spevack.livejournal.com/82143.html
10. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2500
-- Ambassadors --
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Fedora 11 released this week ---
Fedora 11 will be released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well.
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
--- Test Days ---
There was no Test Day last week, as we are deep in the Fedora 11 final release run-up.
Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is too close to the scheduled release of Fedora 11 for any testing to produce results directly in Fedora 11 final release, but if you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1].
1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Weekly meetings ---
The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-06-03. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had finally remembered to ask the Bugzilla team to add a link to the Fedora bug workflow page[3] from the Bugzilla page[4]. This has been done, and the link will show up with the next refresh of Bugzilla.
James Laska reported that he has now sent out the survey about Fedora 11 Test Days, asking participants for feedback on how the events went and any possible improvements that could be made[5]. Some feedback had already been received, and much more was expected.
Will Woods reported that he had added two test cases for preupgrade [6], [7], and updated the release candidate test matrix for RC3[8].
The group discussed how to handle the installation test result matrix wiki page[9] between release candidate revisions. James Laska committed to work out his best solution and send it to the mailing list.
Adam Williamson reported that he had added an entry to the Fedora 11 Common Bugs page[10] for bug #502077[11], but that the bug would now be fixed for final release and so the note should be removed. He clarified that issues which will be fixed for final release should just be removed from the page, not moved to the planned 'Resolved Issues' section.
The group discussed the state of Fedora 11 final release preparation. In general building of release candidates and testing was progressing smoothly. James Laska asked that the group make an effort to confirm the fixes for the nine release-critical issues marked as MODIFIED in Bugzilla.
The group then discussed the appropriate way to document bug #503824[12], where installation fails in certain circumstances on an x86-64 system with only 512MB of memory. In the end it was decided the most appropriate way to address this would be in the minimum hardware requirements. Adam Williamson volunteered to add a request for some appropriate text to be added to an existing bug report on revision of the minimum requirements.
James Laska then started a brainstorming session for a general review of QA's role during the Fedora 11 cycle. Many ideas were contributed by the entire group. A summary of these is available on the meeting page[13].
The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[14] was held on 2009-06-02. The full log is available[15]. John Poelstra reported on progress of the housekeeping changes for Fedora 11's release, and the group agreed that he was doing a fine job and should keep it up.
Adam Williamson reported on the progress of the triage metric system. The system[16] is now running on the real Bugzilla data, updated nightly. The system is now in its beta stage, and the developer Brennan Ashton asks that people experiment with it and report bugs or feature requests to trac[17] (component triageweb).
Adam Williamson also reported on the progress of the proposal to include setting the priority / severity fields as part of triage. It is now waiting on a change by the Bugzilla maintainers to restrict access to the priority and severity fields. This is being tracked in a bug report[18]. Niels Haase noted that he had already begun setting severity on reports he is triaging, according to the policy, and had not yet met with any resistance on the part of reporters. The group agreed that triagers could go ahead and begin setting the severity field ahead of the change to Bugzilla, if they would like to.
Niels Haase flagged up a bug[19] for possible inclusion in the Fedora 11 Common Bugs page. It involves resume from suspend failing when using the nouveau graphics driver. After some discussion, the group agreed it should be added to the list.
John Poelstra announced that he would be stepping back from some of his leadership role within the BugZappers group, though remaining involved in many ways. The group thanked him for all his efforts so far. Adam Williamson, Edward Kirk and Niels Haase will cover meeting arrangements for the foreseeable future.
Steven Parrish mentioned that he intended to go through all still-open Fedora 9 bugs for the components he triages, and try to determine whether they were still valid for a current release (and if so change them to that release), in advance of the automated closing of Fedora 9 bugs for EOL. Adam Williamson suggested he also mention this idea on the mailing list.
The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-10 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-09 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090603
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow
4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html
5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00160.html
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade_from_older_release
8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC3_Install_Test_Results
9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results
10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs
11. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=502077
12. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=503824
13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090603#F-11_QA_Post-mortem_di...
14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings
15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Jun-02
16. http://publictest14.fedoraproject.org/triageweb/
17. http://fedorahosted.org/triage
18. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495985
19. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=459323
--- Release candidate build availability ---
Following on from last week's discussion of the availability of release candidate builds, Andre Robatino announced[1] that he had built and made available delta ISOs - files containing the difference between two ISO images, allowing the reconstruction of the latest final image - for RC2, from Fedora 11 Preview. He later made delta ISOs available for RC3 and RC4. The group continued to discuss the feasibility of getting quickly-revised pre-release builds available from the public mirror system using various methods, but no conclusion has yet been reached.
1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01372.html
--- Bugzilla statistics ---
Brennan Ashton released[1] the first weekly Bugzilla statistics roundup, derived from the new triage metrics system. The response was enthusiastic, with requests and suggestions for more information from Jóhann Guðmundsson[2] and Christopher Beland[3]. There were also several positive responses on the development mailing list, where the information was also posted.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00093.html
2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00097.html
3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00121.html
--- 'How to report bugs' page revised ---
Adam Williamson announced[1] that he had made some changes to the main Wiki page on how to report bugs[2]. In particular, he had revised the section providing advice on what information to include in particular types of bug report to be more consistent. He encouraged everyone to contribute this type of information: if you know of specific information which is usually required when filing a particular type of bug (or a bug on a particular component), add this information following the layout used in the appropriate section of the page[3].
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00137.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests#Tips_by_Type_of_Bug
--- Fedora 11 Test Day survey ---
James Laska posted a survey[1] on the Fedora 11 Test Day process, asking for feedback on various facets of the process and suggestions for future improvements. The response was wide and enthusiastic, across both the QA and the development mailing lists, with many useful and constructive suggestions from testers and developers alike. James and Adam Williamson responded to several of the suggestions, affirming that many would be considered for implementation during the Fedora 12 Test Day cycle.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00160.html
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Fedora 11 Release Notes on docs.fedoraproject.org ---
John J. McDonough announced that all the suggestions related to the Fedora 11 Release Notes have been updated on docs.fedoraproject.org[1]. The languages updated after this build would be rebuilt after the Fedora 11 Release Announcement and posteed on docs.fedoraproject.org.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00000.html
--- Fedora 11 Release Announcement Ready for Translation ---
The Release Announcement for Fedora 11 is ready for translation[1]. However, the local language teams can also create their own announcements based upon the key talking points[2].
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00014.html
2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00003.html
--- New members in FLP ---
Jurijs Kolomijecs[1] (Latvian and Russian), Zhang Wei[2] (Chinese), Favio Ziviello[3] (Italian), Tom.K.C. Chiu[4] (Traditional Chinese and Korean), Dennis Tobar[5] (Spanish) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00190.html
2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00001.html
3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00004.html
4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00005.html
5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00020.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Looking Forward to Fedora 12 Themes ---
On behalf of the Board and as part of the process to select a code name for Fedora 12[1] Paul Frields asked for input[2] on @design-team: "As you're probably aware we are working early on the F12 naming process, to provide the Fedora Design team plenty of time for theming the next release, as requested". He is trying to find out if the candidates on the the list going from Board to Legal have the potential for a visual theme: "I would like the Design team to look at these names and give me some indication of their themeability". Various members of the team outlined directions which can be followed for any of the candidates, with the general opinion being favourable[3]: "after a quick read of the list, I don't see anything as unthemeable as "sulphur", so any of the choices are acceptable IMO".
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000065.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000067.html
--- Graphics for FUDCon - LATAM ---
Jayme Ayres reported[1] and asked for feedback on @design-team about a number of graphics he made for the upcoming FUDCon LATAM[2] in Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Here are the designs that we use in Fudcon LATAM at FISL 10 (Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil). The posters will still be chosen, only the poster of FUDCon is approved."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000119.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009
--- Media Art Adjustments ---
At the last minute Max Spevack reported[1] a number of issues encountered by the media production company with the Fedora 11 media art: "The artwork is too big", "All files related to the CD/DVD case contain transparencies and this could bring some problems by printing out the files", "there's a no-embedded font", "In the labels is indicated a missing font". The problems were solved[2] quickly by Máirín Duffy with an update[3] of the files.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000102.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000117.html
3. http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Resources/Fedora%20Release%20Th...
-- Security Week --
In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.
Contributing Writer: JoshBressers
--- .ORG DNSSEC ---
This week .ORG became the first TLD to sign their zone with DNSSEC [1]
This is sort of a big deal, as most everyone agrees DNSSEC[2] will happen in the future, but nobody has really taken any steps to make it happen. It falls in the same bucket as IPv6. It will happen, it will be nice when it does, but it's going very very slowly.
Many organizations will be watching how this goes for .ORG, if it goes well, it's quite likely DNSSEC will see rapid deployment, but if it goes bad, it may slow things even more than they currently are.
1. http://blog.pir.org/?p=349
2. http://www.dnssec.net/
-- Virtualization --
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
--- Fedora Virtualization List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
---- New Release libguestfs 1.0.41 ----
Richard Jones announced[1] "version 1.0.41 of image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs, the library for accessing and modifying virtual machine filesystems."
New Features:
* squashfs and cramfs support
* better support for read-only access to drives
* many problems with string handling in different language bindings have been fixed
* internationalization support
* ext4 support improved on RHEL 5
* improved support for running commands in the guest
* support for skipping tests
* lvresize and ext2/3 resize support
* pvremove, vgremove, lvremove commands
* sleep command
* IRC channel #libguestfs on FreeNode
See previous release announcement for 1.0.15 in FWN#174 [2].
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00020.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue174#New_Release_libguestfs_1.0.15
---- New virt-inspector Features ----
Richard Jones announced[1] "I've added a few extra features to virt-inspector[2] (in image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs[3] >= 1.0.42)."
"First up is a new 'query mode'" which prints "out some useful facts about the virtual machine such as whether it's fully virtualized or needs a Xen hypervisor, and whether it has various paravirt drivers installed."
"Secondly (not covered in the manpage), virt-inspector will try to discover whether a VM contains the right initrd drivers and module configuration to boot under various hypervisors. So for example it can tell you whether a guest has the virtio drivers available at boot time to boot from a virtio disk."
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00049.html
2. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/virt-inspector.1.html
3. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/
---- Fedora Virtualization Status ----
Mark McLoughlin looked[1] on to Fedora 12 in his latest virtualization status report. "Okay, so F-11 is done and dusted. Onwards to F-12!" "Here's what the schedule looks like:"
2009-07-28 Feature Freeze (53 days)
2009-08-04 Beta Freeze (60 days)
2009-09-22 Final Development Freeze (109 days)
2009-10-20 Compose & Stage Release Candidate (137 days)
Highlights include:
* A thorough run-down of virtualization related bugs.
* "Daniel Berrange was interviewed[2] about virtualization in Fedora 11."
* "Updates are being pushed regularily to the virt-preview repository"[3]
* "Jeremy Fitzhardinge's latest submission of the Xen Dom0 patches for 2.6.31 has caused the kernel community to get themselves into a bit of a flap. LWN has a nice article[4] on the 'discussion'"
Gerd Hoffmann followed[5] up with some details on the controversial bits. "lapic + ioapic. That is the big hot topic. Current code lacks sensible interfaces to the different apic types out there in the wild. The current dom0 patches hook just into that mess instead of cleaning it up. Right now it looks like Jeremy has to sort that mess to get the xen bits in, using the to-be-created apic interfaces."
"No way the apic stuff will make it into the 2.6.31 merge window opening RSN, the work on that barely started. Thus we can expect functional dom0 support upstream in 2.6.32 earliest."
"Also noteworthy: There is a discussion on xen-devel regarding the future of the xen linux trees. Which one should be used & maintained and so on." "Looks like Keir seriously considers switching xen-unstable to the pv_ops kernel by default. YES! FINALLY! Well, it is probably to early to uncork the champagne, but I think we can at least put a bottle into the fridge ;)"
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00030.html
2. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-virtualization-reality.html
3. http://markmc.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/README
4. http://lwn.net/Articles/335812/
5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00034.html
--- Libvirt List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.
---- New Release libvirt 0.6.4 ----
Daniel Veillard announced[1] a new image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt release, version 0.6.4.
"There is a number of new things in that release, but as happens in time-based releases some are not fully complete, for example the OpenNebula driver was added but it still need a bit of work on the detection code and a bit of cleanup to avoid a GPL/AFS licencing issue, so please don't enable it except for test builds. We also have a new set of Interface config APIs but they are not yet implemented by a driver and the XML import/export routines are not there yet. Still there is a lot of things to use and discover in this release as you can see below:"
New features:
* new API virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom (Cole Robinson)
* full VBox graphic capabilities (Pritesh Kothari)
* Interface config APIs (Laine Stump)
* APIs for domain XML conversions (Daniel Berrange)
* initial version of OpenNebula driver (Abel Miguez Rodriguez)
Improvements:
* cleanups and doc on virExec (Cole Robinson)
* error reporting in QEmu migrations (Cole Robinson)
* better path and driver detection in VBox (Pritesh Kothari)
* avoid caching QEMU driver capabilities(Cole Robinson)
* multiple graphics elements definitions (Pritesh Kothari)
* LSB init header init.d improvements (Frederik Himpe)
* special erro code for invalid operations (Daniel Berrange)
* dlopen error logging (Daniel Berrange)
* fix UUID and name uniqueness (Daniel Berrange)
* improvement on VBox initialization (Pritesh Kothari and Dan Berrange)
* "Host only" and "Internal" network in VBox (Pritesh Kothari)
* add utility virExecDaemonize (Cole Robinson)
* enable bridges without IP (Ludwig Nussel)
* 'make -s' silencing (Daniel Berrange)
* test case for exercising the event loop (Daniel Berrange)
* virsh commands vol-clone and vol-create-from (Cole Robinson)
* new xend don't use [] around cpumaps (Tatsuro Enokura)
* add the CIL mutex lock checker (Daniel Berrange)
* fix some LXC error code (Amy Griffis)
* virInterface python bindings (Daniel Berrange)
* fix to the example code for event handling (Pritesh Kothari)
* always add location informations to logging (Daniel Berrange)
* python domain events example and binding (Daniel Berrange)
* PPC Qemu Machine Type update (Thomas Baker)
libvirt 0.6.3 was released[2] on April 24.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00621.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue173#New_Release_libvirt_0.6.3
--- end FWN 179 ---
14 years, 10 months
Fedora Elections and Release Name Selection - Voting Information
by Nigel Jones
Hi Everyone,
The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora 12 Release Name choice have been
created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 7th June 2009 and are
scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 22nd June 2009.
All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting).
Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've
used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide,
currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/.
Fedora Board Election:
----------------------
This election, the Fedora Board is electing three candidates and will
appoint another two members.
Vacating the seats on the board this election are Jesse Keating, Seth
Vidal, Tom Callaway, Chris Tyler and Harald Hoyer.
John Poelstra was announced as the board's first appointee with the
second to be decided after the election.
The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:
David Nalley (ke4qqq)
Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
Josh Boyer (jwb)
Mike McGrath (mmcgrath)
Tom Callaway (spot)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf12
Town Hall Logs:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_Board_2009-06-04_1400UTC
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_Board_2009-06-05_0200UTC
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election:
-----------------------------------------------
For this election, FESCo will be electing five candidates to sit on the
committee.
Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Bill Nottingham, Kevin
Fenzi, Dennis Gilmore, Brian Pebble and David Woodhouse.
The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:
Adam Miller (maxamillion)
Andreas Thienemann (ixs)
Bill Nottingham (notting)
Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
David Woodhouse (dwmw2)
Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
Ian Weller (ianweller)
Jens Petersen (juhp)
Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
Kevin Kofler (Kevin_Kofler)
Seth Vidal (skvidal)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and
be a member of any other group.
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof12
Town Hall Logs:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FESCo_2009-06-03_1400
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FESCo_2009-06-04_0200
Fedora 12 Release Name Community Vote:
-----------------------------------------------
This community vote has been setup to choose the release name for
Fedora 12.
The choices for this vote were selected using community suggestions
from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12.
The options for this vote are in alphabetical order:
Chilon
Constantine
Orville
Rugosa
Umbria
To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora
Account System.
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef12
***
I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement
for the June 2008 Board Election:
"I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity
contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look
when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any
government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have
a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones
that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project.
This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions
about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take
advantage of it."
***
This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but
for all three elections.
Thanks also go to Matt Domsch and other volunteers who have helped with
organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections.
Regards,
Nigel Jones
Fedora Election Admin
14 years, 10 months
Board appointment
by Paul W. Frields
I am pleased to announce that John Poelstra is our first appointment
to the Fedora Project Board for this cycle. His term will last until
the selection process following the release of Fedora 13, in
accordance with the Board's established succession planning.
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. Please join me in welcoming John to the Board!
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
14 years, 10 months
Fedora Elections: Town Hall schedule set, beginning in 12 hours
by Matt Domsch
With each of the candidates noting they can attend at least one of the
IRC Town Halls for their respective offices, the schedule is now set.
Town Halls begin in about 12 hours.
Each group participating in the election will host two Town Hall
sessions on IRC. Each will last one hour, or less if there are no
further questions.
How to Join
* Everyone should join #fedora-townhall on FreeNode
(irc.freenode.net). Only candidates and a moderator may speak in
this channel.
* Non-candidates should also join #fedora-townhall-public on
FreeNode (irc.freenode.net). Direct your questions for the
candidates to the moderator.
FESCo Candidate forum
Wednesday, June 3, 1400 UTC
(10am US Eastern Daylight Time, 7am US Pacific Daylight Time)
Moderated by Max Spevack
FESCo Candiate forum
Thursday, June 4, 0200 UTC
(Wed night, 10pm US Eastern Daylight Time, 7pm US Pacific Daylight Time)
Moderated by Chris Tyler
Board Candidate forum
Thursday, June 4, 1400 UTC
(10am US Eastern Daylight Time, 7am US Pacific Daylight Time)
Moderated by Paul Frields
Board Candidate forum
Friday, June 5 0200 UTC
(Thurs night, 10pm US Eastern Daylight Time, 7pm US Pacific Daylight Time)
Moderated by John Rose (aka inode0)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections lists these now.
I look forward to your participation, and hope these forums will more
fully inform our electorate about the candidates.
Thanks,
Matt
14 years, 11 months
Fedora Weekly News 178
by Pascal Calarco
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-list(a)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_Cyc...
---- 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. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009
--- Upcoming Events ---
Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!
June 8-10: FAD Fedora Development Cycle[1] in Raleigh, North Carolina.
June 9: Fedora 11 Release Party[2] in Managua, Nicaragua.
June 13: Fedora 11 Release Party[3] in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
June 12-13: VCNSL[4] in Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela.
June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[5] in Clemson, South Carolina.
June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[6] in Clemson, South Carolina
June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[7] in Portland, Oregon.
June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[8] in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
June 24-27: LinuxTag[9] in Berlin, Germany.
June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[10] in Berlin, Germany.
1.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cyc...
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora_UCA_jun09
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Wau
4. https://cnsl.org.ve/
5. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009
8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009
9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009
10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009
-- 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 ---
Michael DeHaan responded[1] respond to an article[2] by Matt Assay on
cnet (which in turn cited one of Michael's previous posts[3] on the
topic of "Recognizing and Avoiding Common Open Source Community Pitfalls"):
"Sure — building any sort of collaborative infrastructure is hard.
Yet there are those that want to sell open source as that (another
bullet point on a slidedeck), and then there are those that believe
software is open, that information should be free, everyone can work
together with everyone, we are all equals, and that we will keep no
secrets."
Daniel Walsh introduced[4] the SELinux Sandbox,a "policy that allows
users to build scripts to process untrusted content into some output
that they could safely use." James Morris elaborated[5] with further
points on the SELinux Sandbox and the problems with Ambient Authority.
Jack Aboutboul interviewed[6] Daniel Berrange, Red Hat Virtualization
Team Engineer "about the many key upgrades to virt technology in F11
focusing on areas of usability, performance and security."
Dan Williams showed off[7] the new NetworkManager network selector user
interface, to replace the old GtkMenu-based interface.
Susan Lauber continued[8] with Part 2 of a series on improving the
Fedora Wiki: "Using Special pages to assist with wiki cleanup."
Gary Benson published[9] an excellent introductory article on the
history and reasoning behind Zero and Shark at java.net. Gary also
wrote[10] a tutorial on Instrumenting Zero and Shark.
Jeroen van Meeuwen posted[11] an opinion piece on "Why the Open Source
Channel Alliance is bad for Free Software". Jeroen also mentioned[12]
that "Starting in July...I'll be mentoring a workshop on Office and
Infrastructure IT entirely based on Free Software and Open Source
technology..."
Martin Sourada chronicled[13] his preferred desktop applications
(including background information on why each program is used) to ensure
that he can run a FLOSS desktop using Fedora.
Paul W. Frields was interviewed[14] about Fedora and RHEL by Randal
Schwartz and Leo Laporte at Twit.tv.
1. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/05/24/earth-to-matt/
2.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10244853-16.html?part=rss&subj=TheOpenRoad
3. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/05/17/oss-pitfalls/
4. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html
5. http://james-morris.livejournal.com/41591.html
6.
http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-virtualization-reality.html
7.
http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/05/26/face-transplants-are-the-new-botox/
8.
http://travelingtrainer.laubersolutions.com/2009/05/using-special-pages-t...
9. http://gbenson.net/?p=137
10. http://gbenson.net/?p=138
11. http://kanarip.livejournal.com/14584.html
12. http://kanarip.livejournal.com/14756.html
13. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-desktop.html
14. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2481
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
--- Test Days ---
There was no Test Day last week, as we are deep in the Fedora 11 final
release run-up.
Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is too close to
the scheduled release of Fedora 11 for any testing to produce results
directly in Fedora 11 final release, but if you would like to propose a
test day which could result in changes for post-release updates, or an
early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC.
--- Weekly meetings ---
The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-05-27. The full log is
available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had again not yet
remembered to ask the Bugzilla team to add a link to the Fedora bug
workflow page.
James Laska reported that he was still not yet ready to send out a Test
Day feedback survey to previous participants, but continued to work on it.
John Poelstra reported that he had updated the current Fedora 12
schedule[3].
Will Woods reported that he had added a test case for upgrading from one
Fedora release to the next with an encrypted root partition[4].
The group discussed how to handle the installation test result matrix
wiki page[5] between release candidate revisions. James Laska committed
to work out his best solution and send it to the mailing list.
Adam Williamson reported that the cleaning and revising of the Fedora 11
Common Bugs page[6] was complete. James Laska added that he had as
promised been adding significant installation issues to the page. Adam
said that he had added the X.org issues of which he was aware, and
sound-related issues. He noted that François Cami had created an initial
draft of a list of ATI-related issues, but had not yet completed it.
Will Woods clarified that his preferred title in relation to autoqa
issues is Cap'n Autoqa. The minutes do not relate whether or not there
is a parrot.
The group reviewed the current status of Fedora 11 GA (final release)
from its perspective. (Note that this meeting took place before the
latest delay in the final ship date). They went over the list of
currently open release blocker bugs, and agreed it seemed possible to
make the final deadline for initial RC generation with all of the bugs
at least tentatively resolved. There was detailed discussion of two bugs
(502077 and 498553). Action plans were developed for both issues to have
them addressed within the one-day deadline the team was at this point
working with.
The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-05-26. The full
log is available[8]. John Poelstra reported on progress of the
housekeeping changes for Fedora 11's release, and the group agreed that
he was doing a fine job and should keep it up.
Adam Williamson reported on the progress of the triage metric system.
Significant progress had been made during the week by the author,
Brennan Ashton. The system is now fully working on the official Fedora
infrastructure hosting server[9]. It is currently working with a test
snapshot of data rather than with the live Bugzilla data, but it should
already be theoretically capable of working with the live data. The
project will now enter a tidying-up and beta testing phase during which
it will be brought up to a state where it can be declared fully usable.
This should take two weeks or so. The group noted that the list of
triagers was based on the FAS 'triagers' group, which leads back to the
existing question of how to rationalize the 'fedorabugs' and 'triagers'
groups. Brennan will work with Jon Stanley to address this issue.
Adam Williamson also reported on the progress of the proposal to include
setting the priority / severity fields as part of triage. As no feedback
opposing the Cepl Method[10] had been received on the mailing list, the
group agreed that it could now go ahead and adopt this as the official
method of setting severity at the triage stage. Adam said he would work
with the Bugzilla team to restrict access to the priority and severity
fields as had been agreed as part of the proposal, and then adjust all
the relevant documentation on the Wiki to put the severity policy into
place.
The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-03 at 1600 UTC in
#fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-02 at
1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090527
3.
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-releng-tasks.html
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_Upgrade_Encrypted_Root
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings
8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-May-26
9. http://publictest14.fedoraproject.org/triageweb/
10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Beland/Bugzilla_Legend#Proposal_B:
--- Unified Greasemonkey triage script ---
Matej Cepl announced[1] that he had released a new revised and unified
Greasemonkey script for triagers incorporating all features of all
previously released scripts. Edward Kirk thanked him for his work[2].
Steven Parrish noted[3] that GreaseMonkey did not yet work unmodified
with the current Firefox 3.5 pre-release as found in Fedora 11. Matej
suggested[4] the Nightly Tester Tools extension as an easy way to work
around this limitation.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01131.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01132.html
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01163.html
4.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01174.html
--- Merging Fedora 11 FAQ into other pages ---
Christopher Beland revived[1] the idea of merging the Fedora 11 FAQ[2],
maintained by Rahul Sundaram, into other pages, as most of its content
could more appropriately be located in various other places, including
the Release Notes, Installation Guide, Common Bugs page and other
places. Rahul explained[3] that he was happy for any content that could
be moved to a more appropriate place to be removed from the FAQ page.
The documentation team's Susan Lauber contributed some suggestions[4] on
other appropriate places the content could be moved to, and in a later
thread she provided[5] some more useful information on adding
information to the Release Notes post-freeze.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01226.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_FAQ
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01228.html
4.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01246.html
5.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01328.html
--- Release Candidate testing ---
James Laska announced[1] testing for the first release candidate build
for Fedora 11 (and, later, for the second[2]). He asked for
installation-related issues to be reported to the Wiki test matrix
page[3]. This led indirectly to questions about where to find the
release candidate images (their location is buried within the matrix
page in order to try and limit demand for the images) and why release
candidate images are not more widely promoted and distributed[4]. Jesse
Keating explained [5] that the amounts of data were too great, the
available storage and bandwidth resources too small, and the timeframes
too tight for release candidate images to be meaningfully distributed
for public testing. He did emphasize[6], however, that the community
could contribute useful testing through use of the Rawhide repositories
and installer images, which currently are synchronized with the release
candidate builds.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01272.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01333.html
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results
4.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01308.html
5.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01309.html
6.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01286.html
-- Developments --
In this section the people, personalities and debates on the
@fedora-devel mailing list are summarized.
Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley
-- Would You Like to Write This Beat ?
Following this issue (FWN#178) I will, with regret, no longer be
covering the @fedora-devel list. If you are interested in writing this
weekly summary of the deeds and doings on the list then please contact
fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com or Pascal Calarco. A short overview of what
you may need to do can be obtained by reading the workflow[1] section of
the wiki. The @fedora-news list is also extremely open and helpful.
Joining[2] the News Project is quite straightforward.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/WorkFlow
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/NewsProject/Join
--- Is gNaughty a Hot Babe ? ---
Rahul Sundaram posted[1] the results of a survey conducted, primarily on
@fedora-list and on the forums, to discover which
non-repository-packaged software Fedora consumers were using.
One interesting point is that CMUCL[2] was revealed[3] to be only
available for 32-bit systems. However what got people really excited
was[4] Rahul's question about what to do concerning the gNaughty
package. Its sole purpose seemed[5] to be downloading pornography. Rahul
referenced the hot-babe CPU monitor which enjoyed controversy in Debian
packaging circles due to its use of female nudity. Rahul wanted to find
out "[...] is this allowed in Fedora?"
Amusingly a good deal of the controversy focused on whether the content
was freely redistributable, but a predictable moral angle was raised[6]
by Muayyad AlSadi who asked for help in producing a spin which removed
content deemed objectionable. Muayyad is a Jordanian developer who has
been producing an Arabic-localized Fedora spin named "Ojuba" for some
time. Muayyad sought a way to make identifying and tagging packages
easier to facilitate this spin. Bill Nottingham was[7] skeptical about
the chances of tags keeping meaning unless there was some sort of review
board. Equally predictable was[8] the reaction typified by Seth Vidal
which resisted any attempt to restrict packages according to standards
which had nothing to do with licensing or patent issues. Mathieu Bridon
thought[9] that the creation of a wiki-page by Muayyad would allow
anyone interested in co-ordinating work on "Inappropriate Content" to
just go ahead and do it without dragging in bureaucracy.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02071.html
2. One of the Common Lisp implementations: http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02088.html
4.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02136.html
5.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02203.html
6.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02242.html
7.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02312.html
8.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02295.html
9.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02355.html
--- Chrome9 Vx800 Graphics Support on LiveUSB ---
Kristaps Viesalgs asked[1] for help in getting the Fedora Live USB to
boot correctly on a machine using a Via Vx800 "Chrome9" GPU. Kristaps
had some success with the latest upstream version (from their subversion
repository) and asked: "Is there any brutal option how to properly boot
X with vesa driver, install Fedora, then make openchrome svn
installation? Is Fedora planning to make for VIA graphic chipset
autoconfiguration utility?"
Adam Jackson asked[2] for a more specific bug report because the chip
should be supported. He preferred not to ship an autoconfiguration
utility instead of just getting the driver correct. Similar points were
made by Adam Williamson and [[User:|Xavier Bachelot]]. The latter
asked[3] any interested developers to help out the openchrome project in
both the 2D and 3D(Gallium) sides.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02146.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02154.html
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02163.html
--- Who Wants a Pony? ---
Kushal Das promised[1] a pony to anyone that would take the trouble to
review[2] one of his packages.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02139.html
2. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503021
--- Firestarter Retired as Unportable to PolicyKit ---
Adam Miller asked[1] whether he should just retire the Firestarter[2]
package for which he had recently become the maintainer. His query was
based on the recent filing of RFEs to integrate Firestarter with
PolicyKit. These suggested to Adam that a large amount of work would be
needed due to the lack of any upstream activity for four years and the
need to grok PolicyKit.
Following confirmation from Rahul Sundaram and Seth Vidal a decision was
made[3] by Adam: "I would honestly rather retire the package than do a
WONTFIX, if the project as a whole is going the direction of PolicyKit
and upstream is dead then I don't want to keep old and busted cruft
around the repositories as Fedora continues to look towards the future."
A further suggestion from "Cry" prompted[4] Adam to start filing RFEs
against system-config-firewall for any features present in Firestarter
but missing in system-config-firewall.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02089.html
2. Firestarter is a firewall configuration GUI
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02094.html
4.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02122.html
--- Russian Fedora ? ---
When Peter Lemenkov asked[1] about the idea of creating a Fedora
Foundation outside of the U.S.A. the usual arguments from the past few
years were rehashed. Kevin Kofler gave[2] an able summary why this would
still present Red Hat with a problem.
An assertion by [[User:|Alexey Torkhov]] that there existed[3] a Red
Hat-sanctioned "RussianFedora" spin which contained mp3 codecs and other
material excluded from the actual Fedora Project repositories drew
demands for proof from Rahul Sundaram.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02013.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02025.html
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02390.html
--- Will FESCo Revisit Kmods ? ---
A discussion of why VirtualBox will not be a feature due to its code not
yet heading upstream and consequently remaining as kmods drew a
statement of support from Kevin Kofler for reverting the current banning
of kmods should he become a FESCo member. Upon request from Richard W.M.
Jones for a dispassionate summary of the reasons to avoid kmods drew[1]
a concise response from Seth Vidal.
Adam Williamson and Matt Domsch (Dell's DKMS mastermind) kicked[2] some
ideas back and forth over the advantages of akmods versus kmods.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02254.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02368.html
--- Upgrade from Fedora 10 to Rawhide (Fedora 11) ---
Following a report from Uwe Kiewel that a yum upgrade had spewed all
sorts of errors the supported methods for upgrades were re-stated[1] by
Adam Williamson: "[I]f you talk to the people most involved in
implementing it (Seth) and testing it (Will) they will tell you that
doing live upgrades via yum can't really ever be 100% safe for various
reasons, but preupgrade can get very close and is useful in all the same
cases. So their position is, we support preupgrade, we don't support
yum. If yum works, great, if it doesn't, you can bug people to fix
whatever it stopping it working, but it's not 'required' by any policy
or guideline."
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02041.html
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Fedora Websites test instance ---
Ricky Zhou set up a preview test instance[1] with the translations for
the Fedora web pages, updated for Fedora 11[2]. At present, the Leonidas
image banner is not functional and an alternate text in english is
displayed. Some configuration related errors caused the translated
versions of the pages in a few languages to not preview correctly. These
were later fixed by Ricky. Any updates to the translations automatically
show up on the test site within one hour.
1. http://publictest1.fedoraproject.org/
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00152.html
--- New members in FLP ---
Claudia Pascu joined the Romanian translation team this week[1].
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00188.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
Contributing Writer: David Nalley
--- Fedora 10 Security Advisories ---
* kernel-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01126...
* squirrelmail-1.4.19-1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01202...
* wireshark-1.0.8-1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01213...
* jetty-5.1.15-3.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01262...
* libwmf-0.2.8.4-18.1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01266...
* php-Smarty-2.6.25-1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01274...
* freetype1-1.4-0.8.pre.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01316...
* eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01337...
* acpid-1.0.6-11.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342...
* ntp-4.2.4p7-1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01414...
* opensc-0.11.8-1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01420...
* maniadrive-1.2-13.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01451...
* php-5.2.9-2.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01452...
--- Fedora 9 Security Advisories ---
* wireshark-1.0.8-1.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01167...
* squirrelmail-1.4.19-1.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01195...
* jetty-5.1.15-3.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01257...
* libwmf-0.2.8.4-18.1.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01269...
* kernel-2.6.27.24-78.2.53.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01271...
* php-Smarty-2.6.25-1.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01283...
* eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01333...
-+- end FWN #178 -+-
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