* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 275
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements
# 1.1.1.1 Change in requirements for Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo candidates
# 1.1.1.2 IMPORTANT - Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Signing
Window Is Open
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Outage:
pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC
# 1.1.2.2 Outage:
fedorapeople.org moving - 2011-05-09 15:00 UTC
# 1.1.2.3 Fedora 15 Final Change Deadline, and Outstanding Blocker Bugs
# 1.1.2.4 REMINDER: Outage:
pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC
# 1.1.2.5 Fedora 15 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, TUESDAY, May 17, 2011 @
21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)
# 1.1.2.6 Fedora 15 Final Release is declared GOLD!
* 1.1.2.6.1 Meeting summary
* 1.1.2.6.2 Action Items
* 1.1.2.6.3 Action Items, by person
* 1.1.2.6.4 People Present (lines said)
# 1.1.2.7 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March - May 2011)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Fedora In the News
+ 1.2.1 Fedora 15 Boosts Linux Security (
esecurityplanet.com)
+ 1.2.2 Fedora 15 Goes Gold, and That's Not All (
ostatic.com)
+ 1.2.3 Fedora 15 completed, new contributor agreement (The H Online)
+ 1.2.4 Life with Fedora 15 and Gnome 3
+ 1.2.5 VirtualBox 4.0.8 Released With GNOME Shell Support (For Fedora
15) (
ubuntumanual.org)
+ 1.2.6 Other Linux Distros' View of Ubuntu's Unity: It Ain’t Pretty
o 1.3 Ambassadors
+ 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
+ 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
+ 1.3.5 Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list
o 1.4 QualityAssurance
+ 1.4.1 Test Days
+ 1.4.2 Fedora 15 validation and preparation
+ 1.4.3 Sample data and configurations for testing
+ 1.4.4 Problematic glibc update
+ 1.4.5 Triage scripts updated
+ 1.4.6 Desktop release criteria revisions
+ 1.4.7 AutoQA
o 1.5 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
o 1.6 LATAM Fedora!
+ 1.6.1 Ruby Capítulo 4 : Control de Acceso y Duck Typing
# 1.6.1.1 Especificación del control de acceso
# 1.6.1.2 Ejemplo private
# 1.6.1.3 Ejemplo protected
# 1.6.1.4 Duck Typing
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 275 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 275[1] for the two weeks ending May
18, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
FWN is back after a hiatus last week! In announcements from the Fedora
Project, important details on changes to requirements for all Fedora
contributors, as well as country requirements for steering committee
members. In development announcements, a couple outage announcements as
well as the Fedora 15 final change deadline details, and later details
of Fedora 15's Gold release status. In Fedora In the News, six articles
from the trade press and blogs this week around Fedora 15, Virtualbox,
and work on packaging Unity for Fedora 15. The Ambassador team this week
announced new Ambassadors for the Netherlands and Israel, a summary of
traffic from the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists and a couple event reports
from Flisol in South America. In Quality Assurance news, reports on the
latest Test Day on Cloud services, details on Fedora 15 validation and
preparation, and report on recent AutoQA news. Security Advisories
brings us current with security-related package releases for Fedora 13,
14 and 15, and Fedora LATAM is back with another Spanish-language
tutorial on Ruby. Enjoy FWN 275!
An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can
listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is
interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue275
2.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project,
including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and
Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcements ---
---- Change in requirements for Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo candidates ----
Tom Callaway[1], from Fedora Legal, on Mon May 16 14:53:49 UTC 2011
announced[2],
"There has been an amendment to the requirements for candidates to
elected (and appointed) roles in Fedora's Community, including (but not
limited to) the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, and
the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.
Specifically, candidates must not be a citizen of an export-restricted
country (see[3] for the list of export restricted countries).
This requirement is applicable immediately, and will apply to candidates
for this upcoming election as well.
Unfortunately, the laws in the United States which Fedora and Red Hat
are subject to place very tight restrictions on the involvement of
citizens of certain countries. Fedora has made its position on this
issue known here:
[4]
Thank you for your understanding"
1. Tom Callaway tcallawa at
redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002959.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Export#Embargoed_Destinations|Legal/...
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Embargoed_nations
---- IMPORTANT - Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Signing Window Is
Open ----
Tom Callaway[1] on Tue May 17 20:05:56 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Please take a moment and read this brief email, as it is important.
Fedora is in the process of retiring our old "Individual Contributor
License Agreement" (also known as the ICLA or CLA) and replacing it with
the new Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA).
All Fedora contributors with accounts in the Fedora Account System ([3])
who have agreed to the old CLA *MUST* agree to the new FPCA by June 17,
2011 to continue contributing to Fedora.
Here is how you do this:
1) Login to the Fedora Account System: [4]
2) Once logged in, click on the "My Account" link in the blue box on the
left side of the window.
3) On the page that loads, you will see a section labeled "Account
Details". Look for the line that says "Contributor Agreement". On that
line, you should see a new section that says:
"New CLA Not Signed - We need contributors to sign the new Contributor
Agreement(Complete it now!)"
Click on "Complete it now!" and follow the prompts.
*
o
+
#
*
It is important that Fedora Account holders who have signed the old
Fedora CLA sign the new FPCA. We have allotted a window of one month for
Fedora contributors to agree to the FPCA. This means that after June 17,
2011, any Fedora Contributors who have not agreed to the FPCA will have
their "cla_done" flag set to False. This also means that any groups that
they are in which are dependent upon "cla_done", such as "packager",
"ambassador", and Fedora People access will be removed.
There are a few accounts which are exempt from this, specifically,
accounts which are members of the "cla_dell", "cla_intel", and
"cla_redhat" groups. If you do not know what these groups are, you are
probably not in them. :) Accounts in these groups will not see the "New
CLA Not Signed" line on their "My Account" page, and do not need to take
any action at this time.
Please take a minute and login to FAS to agree to the terms of the FPCA,
to avoid loss of access.
More information about the FPCA, including the final FPCA text, can be
found here: [5]
If you have any additional questions about the FPCA or the re-signing
process, please feel free to email me directly at legal at
fedoraproject.org."
1. Tom Callaway tcallawa at
redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002960.html
3.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts
4.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts
5.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement
--- Fedora Development News ---
The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC
announce-only list for Fedora development.
Acceptable Types of Announcements
* Policy or process changes that affect developers.
* Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
* Tools changes that affect developers.
* Schedule changes
* Freeze reminders
Unacceptable Types of Announcements
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
* Discussion
* Anything else not mentioned above
1.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
---- Outage:
pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC ----
Kevin Fenzi[1] on Fri May 6 17:20:00 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 1 hour."
The details of the report are available at
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000788.html
1. Kevin Fenzi kevin at
scrye.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000788.html
---- Outage:
fedorapeople.org moving - 2011-05-09 15:00 UTC ----
Kevin Fenzi[1] on Fri May 6 19:50:47 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-09 15:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 1hour."
The details of the report are available at
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000789.html
1. Kevin Fenzi kevin at
scrye.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000789.html
---- Fedora 15 Final Change Deadline, and Outstanding Blocker Bugs ----
Robyn Bergeron[1] on Tue May 10 11:34:42 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"This is your friendly reminder that we have reached the Final Change
Deadline for Fedora 15.
[3]
"After the change deadlines for the Final release no more updates are
made to the branched development repository (e.g.
/pub/fedora/linux/development/15).
The only exceptions are accepted blocker and "nice to have" bugs: [4] [5]
All updates after this time are considered zero day updates of the
release, and are pushed to the updates repository which is available on
the public availability date. For example, the repository for Fedora 15
is /pub/fedora/linux/updates/15."
The next step in the process is to create a final release candidate (RC)
to pass on to QA for testing as soon as possible. However, we have a
handful of bugs left that are blocking the creation of the RC. Delays in
resolving the bugs listed below will prevent the creation of the RC, and
CAN CAUSE A SLIP IN THE SCHEDULE.
[6] 697834 :: NEW :: gnome-menus :: rstrode Other menu appears in
default installation (any .desktop entry with Category=Settings ends up
here (even if there's also Category=System))
[7] 693809 :: ASSIGNED :: imsettings :: tagoh Error message about
missing input methods should be removed"
1. Robyn Bergeron rbergero at
redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000790.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_deadlines
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
5.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_nth_bug_process
6.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697834
7.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693809
---- REMINDER: Outage:
pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC ----
Kevin Fenzi[1] on Tue May 10 16:47:10 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"A reminder that this outage will begin in about 15minutes.
Outage:
pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 1 hour."
The details of the report can be found at
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000791.html
On the separate outage notification, Kevin Fenzi announced[3]
"Sorry for not sending this sooner.
The outage on
pkgs.fedoraproject.org should be complete.
Please report any issues or problems found. "
1. Kevin Fenzi kevin at
scrye.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000791.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000792.html
---- Fedora 15 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, TUESDAY, May 17, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC
(17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) ----
Robyn Bergeron[1] on Mon May 16 15:51:41 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Join us on
irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important
meeting, Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 US-Eastern, 14:00
US-Pacific).
"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering
meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular
release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."
"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
the QA Team."
For more details about this meeting see: [3]
And while you wait, keep an eye on the current F15 final blockers, and
help fill out the test result matrices:
[4] [5]
See you there!
(And my apologies for sending this out in a less-than-timely manner - I
had it stuck in my head that this meeting was Wednesday.)"
1. Robyn Bergeron rbergero at
redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000794.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
5.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Final_RC_Test_Results
---- Fedora 15 Final Release is declared GOLD! ----
Robyn Bergeron[1] on Tue May 17 22:25:59 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"At the Fedora 15 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 15 Final
Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on May 24, 2011.
Please note that the Fedora 15 Release Wide Readiness Meeting will take
place on Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) on
irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting.
[3]
Thanks to everyone for doing your part to get Fedora 15 out the door! :)
1. fedora-meeting: Fedora 15 Go or No go Meeting[4]
Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:33 UTC. The full logs are
available at[5]
-- Meeting summary
* Who's here? (rbergeron, 21:00:54)
* Why are we here? (rbergeron, 21:02:11)
* The purpose of this meeting is to decide whether the final release
criteria have been met (rbergeron, 21:02:30)
*
LINK:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Final_Release_Criteria
rbergeron, 21:02:50)
* To Go, or Not to Go? That is the question. (rbergeron, 21:03:51)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
(rbergeron, 21:04:16)
* the four proposed blockers are not blockers, per yesterday's QA
meeting. (rbergeron, 21:07:04)
* AGREED: We are technically blocker free. (rbergeron, 21:09:57)
* Test Matrices (rbergeron, 21:10:13)
*
LINK:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_RC3_Desktop
rbergeron, 21:10:48)
*
LINK:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_RC3_Install
rbergeron, 21:11:10)
* We will be composing a sugar live image late with some
sugar-specific fixes pulled in. (rbergeron, 21:12:49)
* Only desktop and KDE can block the release. (rbergeron, 21:13:03)
* AGREED: Test matrices are acceptable for a go. (rbergeron,
21:13:45)
* Rel-eng (rbergeron, 21:14:11)
* FESCo/Devel (rbergeron, 21:15:14)
* GOLD? (rbergeron, 21:16:31)
* AGREED: Fedora 15 is declared gold. shipit! (rbergeron, 21:18:09)
* open floor (rbergeron, 21:18:48)
* Thanks to the systemd and gnome/desktop guys as both groups did a
lot of work to get those large features working well. (rbergeron,
21:19:30)
* and Thanks! to everyone else as well! (rbergeron, 21:19:36)
* ACTION: rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists (rbergeron,
21:19:58)
* Please note there is a readiness meeting on Thursday, email has been
sent to logistics list as well as attendees needed to be present.
(rbergeron, 21:20:21)
Meeting ended at 21:22:46 UTC.
----- Action Items -----
* rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists
------ Action Items, by person -----
* rbergeron
rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists
----- People Present (lines said) -----
* rbergeron (58)
* adamw (29)
* dgilmore (8)
* cwickert (6)
* Viking-Ice_ (6)
* brunowolff (5)
* jsmith (4)
* zodbot (3)
* stickster (3)
* nirik99 (3)
* spot (3)
* fenrus02 (2)
* jlaska (2)
* red_alert (1)
* therefore (1)
* athmane (1)"
1. Robyn Bergeron rbergero at
redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000796.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
5.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-17/fedora_15_go_o...
---- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ----
Tom Callaway[1] on Wed May 18 17:49:05 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
A section has been added to the SysVInitScript guidelines covering the
optional situation where a package that uses systemd unit files as the
default also includes sysv initscripts in a subpackage:
[3]
The GIO scriptlets have been changed to not conditionalize the %post
invocation. This works around a multilib issue.
[4]
The guideline that prohibits Fedora packages from using /srv has been
updated to better represent what the FHS has to say about /srv and to
clarify the expectations for Fedora packages which may be configured to
use /srv.
[5]
It was brought to the FPC's attention that while the new Guidelines
covering MinGW packaging were technically correct, Fedora 16 did not yet
contain the necessary toolchain to support the new Guidelines, nor was
it clear that it would arrive in rawhide anytime soon.
Accordingly, the "old" MinGW guidelines were put back in place at: [6]
The "new" MinGW guidelines remain approved, but are not active and
packagers should not use them at this time. If/when the necessary
toolchain components are packaged in Fedora, these guidelines will be
re-enabled.
In addition, the current MinGW guidelines were improved slightly to
support the "new" SRPM naming standard. This is intended to prevent new
MinGW packages from having to be re-reviewed when the "new" MinGW
guidelines take effect.
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to Kalev Lember, Matthew Miller, Michael Schwendt, and all
of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and
passing these guidelines.
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: [7]"
1. Tom Callaway tcallawa at
redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000797.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#Initscripts_in_ad...
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GIO_modules
5.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_Files_or_Directori...
6.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW
7.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
--- Fedora Events ---
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to
identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid
out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is
crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or
not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not
eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take
ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words,
Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and
meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your
agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering
near you!
---- Upcoming Events (March - May 2011) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community
members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that
is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1].
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Fedora 15 Boosts Linux Security (
esecurityplanet.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a notice about a Fedora 15 article in
Spanish that was recently published:
"We have better support for encrypted home directories that get mounted
when you log in and that goes a long way to help people feel that their
data is secure," Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader told
InternetNews.com.
In addition to encryption, Fedora 15 debut the new dynamic firewall
technology that Smith noted was one of his favorite features in the new
Linux release.
Most Linux systems use IP tables type firewalls and the problem is that
if you want to make a change to the firewall, it's hard to modify on the
fly without reloading the entire firewall," Smith said. "Fedora 15 is
really the first mainstream operating system to have a dynamic firewall
where you can add or change rules and keep the firewall up and
responding while you're making changing."
The full post is available[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013904.html
2.
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/news/article.php/3934151/Fedora-15-Boosts-...
--- Fedora 15 Goes Gold, and That's Not All (
ostatic.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a blog posting on the release of Fedora 15 Gold:
"The most notable of the Fedora 15 features is the move to GNOME 3.
GNOME 3 was met with mixed reactions and this is another reason to look
forward to Fedora 15 reviews. Some of the other features include KDE
4.6.x, Xfce 4.8, GCC 4.6, a change to LibreOffice, removal of Setuid
apps, improved SPICE support, /var/run and /var/lock mounted as tmpfs,
and systemd. Fedora 15 is due May 24."
The full posting is available[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013905.html
2.
http://ostatic.com/blog/fedora-15-goes-gold-and-thats-not-all
--- Fedora 15 completed, new contributor agreement (The H Online) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on Fedora 15 and the Fedora
Project's new contributor agreement:
"Fedora Engineering Manager Tom Callaway has also announced that all
Fedora contributors must agree to the Fedora Project Contributor
Agreement (FPCA) by 17 June if they plan to continue contributing to
Fedora. An FAQ on the project's web site offers the FPCA wording and
provides a more detailed explanation of the reasons for this measure.
For instance, the new document is said to be simpler and remove various
obstacles that have reportedly been stumbling blocks for some developers."
The full article is available[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013906.html
2.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-15-completed-new-contributo...
--- Life with Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting on Fedora 15 and Gnome 3:
"I’m pretty happy with the state of things now. I have to admit that in
the beginning, I was cursing loudly asking for my desktop and panel
back, but I’m used to the dash area and window picker now. The search
feature (which is similar to Spotlight in OSX) is really useful and I
end up using that for the majority of my tasks. I also find the
notification system very well done along with the ability of dealing
with messages without changing windows. In the end, all I can say is I
find myself using Fedora more over my pretty MacBook Air for the
majority of my tasks."
The full article is available[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013907.html
2.
http://aniszczyk.org/2011/05/17/life-with-fedora-15-and-gnome-3/
--- VirtualBox 4.0.8 Released With GNOME Shell Support (For Fedora 15) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article about the release of VirtualBox
4.0.8 with Gnome shell support:
"The latest VirtualBox 4.0.8 finally comes with GNOME Shell support.
I've tested it in Ubuntu 11.04, using a Fedora 15 virtual machine and
Gnome Shell worked great. According to the changelog, it should work
with both Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15"
The full article is available[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013908.html
2.
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/virtualbox-408-released-with-gnome.html
--- Other Linux Distros' View of Ubuntu's Unity: It Ain’t Pretty ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an interview with Adam Williamson's effort
in packaging Unity for Fedora 15:
"At Fedora, Red Hat developer Adam Williamson is packaging Unity because
"I wanted to check it out and figured packaging it should be about as
easy as installing Ubuntu. It wasn't, but by then my native stubbornness
kicked in and now I want to package it more or less because it's there.
I doubt it'll work terribly well . . . it'll sorta more or less work but
have lots of rough edges and not be something the upstream Unity team
would be happy to show off."
Williamson stresses, though, that his efforts are personal. "There's
been exactly no distribution-wide discussion of this; it's not some kind
of official approach to Unity or anything like that. Fedora as a whole
has no policy or opinion on Unity. Ditto for Red Hat."
The full article is available[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013909.html
2.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3933716_1/Other-L...
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Welcome New Ambassadors ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members
joining.
Elad Alfassa from Israel mentored by Bert Desmet
Richard de Bruin from the Netherlands mentored by Bert Desmet
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Larry Cafiero reminded [1] about FAmNA meeting for 2011-05-03 [2]
Christoph Wickert reminded [3] about EMEA Ambassadors meeting on
2011-05-04 [4] and later posted [5] the Meeting Minutes [6]
David Ramsey mentioned [7] that the special APAC meetings for weekly
Wednesdays would be at 1000 UTC [8]
Haowei Lee provided updated information [9] about the Fedora 15 China
Online Event
Truong Anh. Tua posted [10] meeting notes from the APAC Ambassadors
meeting on 2011-05-04 [11]
Rejaul Islam updated [12] information about Fedora 15 Release Parties
being organized at Bangladesh
Jiri Eischmaan reported [13] about plans to organize a Fedora 15 Release
Party at the Brno office of Red Hat [14]
David Ramsey reminded [15] about the APAC Ambassadors Meeting to be held
on 2011-05-07 at 0400 UTC [16] and later posted [17] the Meeting Minutes
[18]
Buddhika Kurera initiated a thread [19] about FUDCon preparation for
APAC. Further along the thread [20] there was a request to have more
ideas in addition to the one from Fedora Ambassadors in Malaysia [21]
Max Spevack relayed feedback [22] received at the Red Hat Summit about
the Fedora Business Cards [23]. Arturo Fernandez reminded [24] about the
business card generation not working properly with UTF-8 encoding and
mentioned that a patch was available to fix it. David Nalley followed it
[25] with a request to remove the Fedora Talk line from the card as the
service was deprecated.
David Ramsey reminded [26] about special APAC meeting for weekly
Wednesday on 2011-05-11 [27] Buddhika Kurera posted [28] the meeting
logs [29]
David Ramsey informed [30] about the availability of the Fedora 15 RC1
for testing
David Ramsey also posted [31] information around the upcoming Board and
FESCo elections
Felix Kaechele requested an owner [32] for the FrOSCon 2011 [33] at
Germany [34]
Igor Pires Soares posted [35] Meeting Minutes for FAmSCo meeting for
2011-05-14 [36] The resulting thread [37] had discussions among
Ambassadors with suggestions about how to handle the current situation
of empty seats at FAmSCo
Neville A. Cross begun the process [38] to draw up a schedule for the
FAmSCo Town Halls
Tom Callaway posted [39] about the Change in requirements for Board,
FESCo and FAmSCo candidates in that "specifically, candidates must not
be a citizen of an export-restricted country " [40]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017439.html
2.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:NA_Ambassadors_2011-05-03
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017440.html
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-05-04
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017449.html
6.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting...
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017441.html
8.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-04
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017442.html
10.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017444.html
11.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-04/fedora-meeting...
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017445.html
13.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017446.html
14.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_Release_Party_Brno
15.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017451.html
16.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-07#Agenda
17.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017457.html
18.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-07/apac.2011-05-0...
19.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017454.html
20.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/thread.html...
21.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MalaysianTeam/FUDConAPACDraft
22.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017459.html
23.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Business_cards
24.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017460.html
25.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017461.html
26.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017471.html
27.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-11#Agenda
28.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017472.html
29.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-11/apac.2011-05-1...
30.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017473.html
31.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017478.html
32.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017479.html
33.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrOSCon_2011
34.
https://callforprojects.froscon.org/
35.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017481.html
36.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-14/fedora-meeting...
37.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/thread.html...
38.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017488.html
39.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017506.html
40.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Export#Embargoed_Destinations|Legal/...
--- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Antonio Salles posted [1] photographs from the Flisol event [2] Eduardo
Zamorano also posted some photographs [3]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017452.html
2.
https://picasaweb.google.com/asalles.mail/FLISOLSantiago2011
3.
https://picasaweb.google.com/asalles.mail/FLISOLSantiago2011
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Neville A. Cross informed [1] about being unable due to working on the
arrangements for the LibreBus event.
Igor Pires Soares called for discussion [2] around the proposal for a
FAD at the 12th Free Software International Forum for which there
already exists a plan and budget estimate [3] Neville A. Cross wondered
[4] if the Budget discussion was a FAmSCo or, a Community Architecture
team issue. Igor Pires Soares mentioned [5] a prior mail to Max Spevack
which was awaiting a response and updated that the tasks with the local
team are now completed. Pierros Papadeas indicated [6] that it was
justifiable to allocate a budget of ~1000 USD for a FAD and suggested
the creation of a wiki page. Igor Pires Soares followed up [7] with
details about the tickets on the trac [8] [9] And, further that the
FAmSCo meeting [10] approved to fund lodging for those paying airfare
and, lodging+airfare for those requests who live near the city of the
event hosting.
Igor Pires Soares informed [11] about the draft of the FAmSCo April
report was available on the wiki [12] for editing.
Gerard Braad notified [13] about the discussion around resignation [14]
of Larry Cafiero from The Fedora Project and indicated that roles and
responsibilities within the FAmSCo needed to be re-assigned. Neville A.
Cross indicated [15] about a possible set of steps including moving a
proposal to remove Rahul Sundaram and vote on that.
Neville A. Cross informed [16] about the state of readiness of the
FAmSCo survey built using the Lime Survey service [17] which now needs
to be activated and sent to participants. Gerard Braad corrected [18] a
few typographical errors in the document and signed it off. Neville A.
Cross also provided information [19] [20] around the charges/expenses
involved for running the survey.
Gerard Braad responded [21] to Buddhika Kurera's comments on the FAmSCo
meeting minutes of 2011-05-14
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000775.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000776.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-May/002174....
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000777.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000779.html
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000781.html
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000782.html
8.
https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/161
9.
https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/178
10.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000783.html
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000780.html
12.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-04
13.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000785.html
14.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-14/fedora-meeting...
15.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000787.html
16.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000788.html
17.
http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/limesurvey_draf.pdf
18.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000790.html
19.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000793.html
20.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000792.html
21.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000789.html
--- Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list ---
The mailing list did not have any traffic this week.
-- Quality Assurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more
information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see
the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Test Days ---
Thursday 2011-04-28 was cloud Test Day, with events for BoxGrinder[1]
and EC2[2]. Both Test Days went off successfully, with a decent turnout
of testers and some productive results. Marc Savy posted a recap of the
BoxGrinder event[3]: "In the course of testing only two major
unanticipated bugs were encountered, along with several known issues for
Fedora 15 appliances, but no blockers preventing inclusion in the
distribution. These problems have since been remediated in the upcoming
0.9.2 release...Aside from the bugs exposed, the opportunity to meet new
users, garner ideas and solicit opinions was extremely worthwhile."
These were the final Test Days for the Fedora 15 cycle. If you would
like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please
contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[4].
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-28_Cloud_SIG_BoxGrinder_Build
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-28_Cloud_SIG_Fedora_EC2
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-May/000243.html
4.
http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Fedora 15 validation and preparation ---
Over the last three weeks the group has been busy with preparation and
testing for the final Fedora 15 release, leading to the absence of this
beat from recent FWN issues, for which we apologize. The final blocker
review meeting took place on Friday 2011-05-06[1]. The first test
compose landed on Tuesday 2011-05-03[2], followed by three release
candidates, the first on Wednesday 2011-05-11[3], the second on Friday
2011-05-13[4], and the third and final also on that date[5]. The group
completed desktop and installation validation testing for all four
composes, viewable on the Wiki[6] [7]. As can be inferred from the
existence of the second and third release candidates, the group was able
to identify release blocking issues and ensure these were successfully
resolved. The RC3 testing confirmed that this image set met all release
criteria, and it was duly approved as the gold image set for Fedora 15
release at the Go/No-Go meeting of 2011-05-17[8], a decision which was
later announced by Robyn Bergeron[9].
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-05-06/f15-blocker...
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-May/000236.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-May/000239.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-May/000240.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-May/000241.html
6.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Final_RC_Test_Results
7.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Final_TC_Test_Results
8.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-17/fedora_15_go_o...
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-May/000245.html
--- Sample data and configurations for testing ---
Samuel Greenfeld asked whether the group had a repository of sample
items of data and configuration files for testing updates[1]. James
Laska replied that there was not such a repository, and suggested that
such files could be added to the Wiki and incorporated in appropriate
test cases[2]. Samuel explained that he thought such files could be
useful in multiple cases, so a separate structure from the test case
setup was required[3].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099337.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099353.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099374.html
--- Problematic glibc update ---
The group (along with the development team) was quick to catch a
problematic glibc update[1] which constituted a significant ABI break
shortly before Fedora 15 release. This was spotted both on the mailing
list[2] and via the Bodhi update feedback system[3]. The updates
policy[4] ensured that the update was not accepted until the ABI change
had been reverted.
1.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.13.90-13
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/099636.html
3.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.13.90-13
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy
--- Triage scripts updated ---
Matej Cepl announced the release of a major update to his Firefox
extension to aid in bug triage, bugzilla-triage-scripts 1.0 RC1[1]. He
asked all Bugzappers with Firefox 4 to update to it and report back on
how it worked.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/099784.html
--- Desktop release criteria revisions ---
Matthias Clasen proposed several revisions to the desktop-related
release criteria[1], prompted by discussions about a
then-release-blocking bug report on the presence of an Other category in
the Shell's applications view[2]. He proposed removing the criterion
requiring there to be no Other category in the application menus, among
other changes. Adam Williamson commented on the proposed changes[3], as
did James Laska[4].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/099787.html
2.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697834
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/099789.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/099792.html
--- AutoQA ---
During the QA meeting of 2011-05-02[1], Kamil Paral explained that the
AutoQA team had decided the upcoming 0.5.0 release would have a tight
focus on making AutoQA feedback more friendly to developers, following
several comments from developers on the verbosity and usefulness of
current AutoQA results. Tim Flink provided minutes from the meeting
where this plan was discussed[2]. Plans include reducing the number of
AutoQA comments in Bodhi and improving the structure and contents of the
dependency check test log. The group had also fixed a problem with disk
space exhaustion resulting in the deletion of recent test logs, which
turned out to be caused by tests stuck in a loop writing huge logs.
During the meeting of 2011-05-16[3], Kamil reported that he had
implemented package caching in AutoQA, which can drastically speed up
dependency check test runs when enabled. Josef Skladanka said that he
had introduced an algorithm to filter out key information from the
dependency check test log explaining why a given package has dependency
issues. The team had started to document its test cases, beginning with
the upgradepath test[4]. Tim was working further on the looping tests
issue, and Vitezslav Humpa created a template for future test reports[5].
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110502
2.
http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/wiki/Planning050series
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110516
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_tests/Upgradepath
5.
http://vhumpa.fedorapeople.org/prettylog_upgradepath_example2.txt
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from
fedora-package-announce for the period May 12-21, 2011.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 15 Security Advisories ---
* acpid-2.0.9-4.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880...
* bind-9.8.0-3.P1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059787...
* mediawiki-1.16.5-59.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435...
* libmodplug-0.8.8.3-3.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060416...
* xen-4.1.0-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060315...
* postfix-2.8.3-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060256...
* exim-4.76-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060251...
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* seamonkey-2.0.14-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059996...
* wordpress-3.1.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059986...
* kernel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059860...
* polkit-0.98-5.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859...
* mediawiki-1.16.5-59.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060496...
* vino-2.32.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060225...
* exim-4.76-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060220...
* postfix-2.7.4-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060216...
* asterisk-1.6.2.18-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060200...
* tor-0.2.1.29-1400.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060123...
* perl-Mojolicious-0.999929-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060122...
* acpid-2.0.9-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* seamonkey-2.0.14-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059975...
* wordpress-3.1.2-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059968...
* xulrunner-1.9.2.17-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059710...
* thunderbird-3.1.10-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059709...
* galeon-2.0.7-40.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059708...
* gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-29.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059705...
* perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.24 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059706...
* gnome-web-photo-0.9-19.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059707...
* mozvoikko-1.0-21.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059703...
* firefox-3.6.17-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059704...
* asterisk-1.6.2.18-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059702...
* mediawiki-1.16.5-59.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060507...
* vino-2.28.3-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060233...
* exim-4.76-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060227...
* postfix-2.7.4-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060215...
* perl-Mojolicious-0.999925-4.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060126...
-- LATAM Fedora! --
LATAM Fedora is a regular column of Spanish language contributions
around open source software. It is our first expansion into
incorporating foreign language content into FWN.
This week's contribution is from Guillermo Gómez, a fourth installment
on Ruby. Enjoy!
--- Ruby Capítulo 4 : Control de Acceso y Duck Typing ---
Cuando se diseña una interfase de una clase es importante considerar
cuánto se expone de la clase al exterior. El permitir mucho acceso a su
clase incrementa el riesgo de incrementar el "acoplamiento" en su
aplicación, es decir, depender en demasía de los detalles de la
implementación en vez de su interfase lógica.
En Ruby la única forma fácil de cambiar el estado de un objeto es por
medio del uso de uno de sus métodos, controle el acceso a los métodos y
controlará el acceso al objeto. Ruby ofrece tres niveles de protección:
* Métodos públicos: pueden ser invocados por cualquiera, no se aplica
ningún control de acceso. Los métodos son públicos por omisión excepto
initiliaze que siempre es privado.
* Métodos protegidos: sólo pueden ser invocados por objetos de la misma
clase o subclases. El acceso se mantiene a la familia.
* Métodos privados: no pueden ser invocados con un receptor explícito,
el receptor siempre es self. Esto significa que los métodos privados
sólo pueden ser llamados en el contexto del objeto actual, no se puede
invocar los métodos privados de otro objeto.
Una diferencia importante con otros lenguajes orientados a objeto es que
el control de acceso es determinado dinámicamente en la medida que el
programa se ejecuta. Obtendrá una violación de acceso sólo cuando
intente ejecutar el método restringido.
---- Especificación del control de acceso ----
Se especifica el nivel de acceso de los métodos dentro de una clase o
módulo utilizando una o más de las tres funciones public, protected y
private. Puede usar cada función en dos formas diferentes.
Si se usan sin argumentos, las tres funciones definen el control de
acceso de los métodos subsiguientes.
1 class MiClase
2 def metodo1 # 'public' por omisión
3 #
4 end
5
6 protected # los subsiguientes métodos serán 'protected'
7
8 def metodo2
9 #
10 end
11
12 private # los subsiguientes métodos serán 'private'
13
14 def metodo3
15 #
16 end
17
18 public # los subsiguientes métodos serán 'public'
19
20 def metodo4
21 #
22 end
23 end
De forma alternativa puede simplemente listar los métodos en dichas
funciones.
1 class MiClase
2 def metodo1
3 #
4 end
5 # ... y el resto de las definiciones de métodos
6
7 public :metodo1, :metodo4
8 protected :metodo2
9 private :metodo3
10 end
---- Ejemplo private ----
El ejemplo abajo muestra un esqueleto para proteger un método peligroso
de alteración del estado del objeto por medio del uso de otro método
intermediario que se supone asegura el acceso, esto ayuda a mantener el
código separado pero simple, uno asegura por ejemplo las credenciales,
el otro ajusta el estado del objeto.
1 class Banco
2 def initialize
3 @tasa="10%"
4 end
5
6 def tasa
7 @tasa
8 end
9
10 def interfase_segura(nueva_tasa) # Se supone que es "segura", llama
al método privado
11 # Código de seguridad
12 self.tasa=nueva_tasa
13 end
14
15 private
16 def tasa=(nueva_tasa)
17 @tasa=nueva_tasa
18 end
19 end
1 >> banco = Banco.new
2 => #<Banco:0xb747e318 @tasa="10%">
3 >> banco.tasa
4 => "10%"
5 >> banco.interfase_segura("20%")
6 => "20%"
7 >> banco.tasa
8 => "20%"
9 >> banco.tasa="30%"
10 NoMethodError: private method `tasa=' called for #<Banco:0xb747e318
@tasa="20%">
11 from (irb):63
12
---- Ejemplo protected ----
Por definición este control de acceso limita el acceso a la familia,
objetos de la misma clase, y objetos de clases derivadas de la clase que
define el método protegido. Abajo un ejemplo simple para comparar
manzanas con manzanas, no con peras.
1 class Manzana
2 def initialize(peso)
3 @peso = peso
4 end
5
6 def <=>(otra_manzana)
7 self.peso <=> otra_manzana.peso
8 end
9
10 protected
11
12 def peso
13 @peso
14 end
15 end
16
17 class Pera
18 def initialize(peso)
19 @peso = peso
20 end
21
22 def <=>(otra_pera)
23 self.peso <=> otra_pera.peso
24 end
25
26 protected
27
28 def peso
29 @peso
30 end
31 end
1 >> m1 = Manzana.new(100)
2 => #<Manzana:0xb74838e0 @peso=100>
3 >> m2 = Manzana.new(200)
4 => #<Manzana:0xb747dda0 @peso=200>
5 >> p1 = Pera.new(50)
6 => #<Pera:0xb74783c8 @peso=50>
7 >> m1 <=> m2
8 => -1
9 >> m1 <=> p1
10 NoMethodError: protected method `peso' called for #<Pera:0xb74783c8
@peso=50>
11 from ./manzanas.rb:7:in `<=>'
12 from (irb):11
13
Al intentar hacer la comparación entre manzana y pera, se invoca
pera.peso en el contexto de las manzanas, y ya que el método está
protegido, entonces da el error.
Ahora bien, esta idea de uso para protected en realidad está en franco
desuso por muchos ya que va en contra de la flexibilidad y dinamismo
natural de Ruby y del concepto de Duck Typing que explicaremos a
continuación.
---- Duck Typing ----
En Ruby no declaramos tipos de variables o tipos para los métodos, todo
es simplemente alguna encarnación, un objeto de una clase, y las clases
no son tipos. Si deseamos programar con la filosofía Duck Typing lo
único que necesita recordar es que el "tipo" de objeto está determinado
por lo que puede hacer, no por su clase.
En la práctica esto significa que hay pocas pruebas de valores de
objeto. Por ejemplo digamos que estamos programando un método para
agregar información de dos objetos de cierta clase y obtener un
resultado String. Los programadores con conocmientos de C# o Java
estarían tentados a hacer algo como lo siguiente:
1 def anexar(obj1,obj2)
2 # probar que se nos han dado lo parámetros correctos
3 unless obj1.kind_of?(String)
4 fail TypeError.new("Se espera String")
5 end
6 unless obj2.kind_of?(String)
7 fail TypeError.new("Se espera String")
8 end
9 obj1 << obj2
10 end
1 >> anexar("Hola", " Mundo")
2 => "Hola Mundo"
3 >> anexar("Hola", 1)
4 TypeError: Se espera String
5 from ./dt.rb:7:in `anexar'
6
Si abraza la filosofía Duck Typing de Ruby podrá escribir este método de
una forma mucho más simple.
1 def anexar(obj1,obj2)
2 obj1 << obj2
3 end
Usted no necesita verificar el tipo de los argumentos en tanto que se
soporte el método << en obj1 simplemente todo funcionará bien. Si no es
así, se lanzará una excepción de todas maneras, el mismo resultado de
que si usted hubiera implementado la verificación. Pero de pronto su
método es mucho más flexible, puede pasarle otros objetos no
necesariamente String, tal vez un Fixnum.
1 >> anexar("Hola", 1)
2 => "Hola\001"
¿Qué pasa si obj1 no soporta el método << entonces?
1 >> anexar(1.2, " dos ")
2 NoMethodError: undefined method `<<' for 1.2:Float
3 from (irb):6:in `anexar'
4 from (irb):13
5
Obtenemos una excepción NoMethodError para el método << para la clase
Float en este ejemplo. Una forma de prevenir posible es usar el método
respond_to?:
1 def anexar(obj1,obj2)
2 # probar que se nos han dado lo par ámetros correctos
3 unless obj1.respond_to?(:<<)
4 fail TypeError.new("'obj1' necesita la capacidad <<")
5 end
6
7 obj1 << obj2
8 end
Pero nuevamente esto es más código que mantener y hay que evaluar si
realmente quiere tomar ese trabajo ya que igualmente podría manejar las
excepciones más arriba.
Si ahora pasa un Array como obj2 obtendrá un error de tipo ya que Array
no es un String pero si podemos invocar el método to_s para obtener una
representación razonable. En última instancia lo que queremos es que
nuestro método si nos devuelva un String.
1 >> arreglo = [0,1,2]
2 => [0, 1, 2]
3 >> anexar("Hola", arreglo.to_s)
4 => "Hola012"
Esto nos lleva a una nueva versión del método anexar, usando to_s para
"convertir" los objetos en String, ahora ya tampoco necesitamos la
verificación respond_to? ya que String responde a << . Tal vez ahora lo
que necesita es validar es que tengan una representación en String, es
decir, que respondan a to_s.
1 def anexar(obj1, obj2)
2 # probar que se nos han dado lo parámetros correctos
3 unless obj1.respond_to?(:to_s)
4 fail TypeError.new("Se espera que responda a to_s")
5 end
6 unless obj2.respond_to?(:to_s)
7 fail TypeError.new("Se espera que responda a to_s")
8 end
9
10 obj1.to_s << obj2.to_s
11 end
El código de prueba puede llevarle nuevamente a situaciones indeseables.
¿Soporta obj1 << pero no to_s? Es mejor lidiar con las excepciones que
ponerse a probar los tipos y/o los métodos a los que responde. Con esta
nueva versión, podemos por ejemplo pasarle dos arreglos, mejor dicho,
cualquier par de objetos que tenga una representación String (to_s) y
concatenarlos y obtener una salida en String.
1 >> arreglo = [0,1,2]
2 => [0, 1, 2]
3 >> anexar(arreglo, arreglo)
4 => "012012"
Ahora veamos nuestro método en acción con varios objetos involucrados:
1 >> anexar("Hola", " Mundo") ; dos String
2 => "Hola Mundo"
3 >> anexar(1, " Mundo") ; Fixnum + String
4 => "1 Mundo"
5 >> anexar(1, 1) ; dos Fixnum
6 => "11"
7 >> anexar(1, 1.1) ; Fixnum + Float
8 => "11.1"
9 >> anexar(1, [1,2," :) "]) ; Fixnum + Array
10 => "112 :) "
11 >> anexar({1=> "mundo", 2 => "hola"}, [1,2," :)
"]) ; Hash + Array
12 => "1mundo2hola12 :) "
De lo único que debe preocuparse en su clase particular es que soporte
to_s para tomar ventaja de nuestro método, si no fallará con una
excepción. Veamos:
1 >> class Miclase
2 >> end
3 => nil
4 >> miobj = Miclase.new
5 => #<Miclase:0x7fb2a1b2c770>
6 >> anexar("Uh?", miobj)
7 => "Uh?#<Miclase:0x7fb2a1b2c770>" ; to_s ya existe!
8 >> anexar(miobj, "¡Ah!")
9 => "#<Miclase:0x7fb2a1b2c770>\302\241Ah!" ; to_s ya existe...
Por supuesto puede sobrescribir el método to_s heredado de Object.
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