Slip of Alpha
by Jesse Keating
Today Release Engineering with input from QA has decided to slip the
alpha release by a week. The current state of rawhide and the
inability to install rawhide for many weeks now does not give us
confident in a successful Alpha. We're giving the installer team an
extra week to fix things up so that we have a better chance at a wide
Alpha use. Releng/QA will revisit again next week during the release
engineering meeting to give a go/no-go vote on enacting the freeze for
Alpha.
The schedule[1] has been updated to reflect this. No other dates have
been adjusted at this point.
[1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years, 3 months
Outage Notification - 2008-01-16 04:01 UTC (Major)
by Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at 2008-01-16 04:01 UTC, which will last
approximately 48 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC'
Affected Services:
Websites
CVS / Source Control
Buildsystem
Database
Mail
Fedora Hosted (Trac auth outages)
Unaffected Services:
Torrent
Fedorapeople
DNS
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/340
Reason for Outage:
We have some new hardware to install. In order to do it we will need to
juggle some current hardware around. This could potentially involve all
of our servers. As time is tight we can't stagger these outages over a
period of days and will have to do them all within a 48 hour period.
Please contact me for specific questions. This will also cause some parts
of our environment to act funny (for example, fedorahosted.org will be
largely unaffected but people may not be able to authenticate to the
web-trac instance for periods of time.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track the status of this outage.
16 years, 3 months
Outage Notification - Fri Jan 11 05:11:26 UTC 2008
by Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at Fri Jan 11 05:11:26 UTC 2008, which
will last approximately X hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d 'Fri Jan 11 05:11:26 UTC 2008'
Affected Services:
Websites
Buildsystem
Database
Unaffected Services:
CVS / Source Control
DNS
Mail
Torrent
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/338
Reason for Outage:
db2 is having some issues with scaling and we believe the planner is a bit
out out of whack. We have made some alterations and are re-analyzing, it
could take some time. Expect slow responses or brief outages of the
affected systems during this time.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track
the status of this outage.
16 years, 3 months
Regarding FUDCon's Friday Hackfest
by Max Spevack
This is kind of amusing.... so the Friday hackfests for FUDCon are at
the "State Club" which is on NCSU's campus. It's a really nice building
with meeting rooms, a very nice lunch that you will partake in, etc.
You'll love it, really.
Turns out though, that there is a "no jeans, no shorts" dress code. So
for all of you hackers -- bring a pair of khakis with you. If you
wanted to wear a polo shirt, that would really knock their socks off.
:)
The actual Saturday FUDCon and Sunday hackfests -- clothing required,
but that is all.
Thanks,
Max
16 years, 3 months
FUDCon -- hackfests and BarCamp
by Max Spevack
FUDConners,
Most of you who are coming to FUDCon already know the details, but I
just want to make sure everyone knows what's going on.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF9 -- this URL has a Google
Map with all the addresses, locations, etc that are mentioned below.
http://barcamp.org/FUDConRaleigh2008 is the general information page.
Friday is a hackfest day. Those of you who are here and participating
in hackfests should meet at the State Club on NCSU's centennial campus
at about 9:30 AM. From there, we will let people know the lunch plans,
and also sort out which hackfests we want to concentrate on, and where
there are rooms that can be used. Please try to coordinate with the
folks who have cars at the hotel for transportation.
Saturday and Sunday both take place at Red Hat's actual headquarters.
BarCamp is Saturday starting at 9:00 (doors open around 8:30 with coffee
and stuff). Sunday will be another hackfest day starting about 9:30.
Again, please try to coordinate rides with the folks who have cars at
the hotel. A decent number will, and the hotel is only about a 5 minute
drive from the hackfest and BarCamp locations.
For folks getting to and from the airport, please see this page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF9/ParticipantTravelPlans
If you are participating in a hackfest and incur costs traveling from
Airport to Hotel, get a receipt and Fedora will pay you back.
16 years, 3 months
Reminder, Alpha freeze is Tuesday the 15th.
by Jesse Keating
As per http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule the alpha
freeze is the 15th. This is a non-blocking freeze, as in we won't be
freezing rawhide. Instead releng will be taking a snapshot (in koji)
of rawhide and using this as the basis for the Alpha release. We will
tag things for this snapshot at our discretion in coordination with
QA. Maintainers can also request things be tagged via
rel-eng(a)fedoraproject.org
Now would be a great time to either land changes you want exposure to,
or fix up those broken deps/upgrade paths/etc...
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years, 3 months
Fedora 9 Feature Status
by John Poelstra
Happy New Year!
I've updated http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dashboard to reflect
the latest proposed features.
Lots of good things are happening. I've added a new section for
features I've found on the wiki that say that they are targeted for
Fedora 9, yet haven't been brought forward for official acceptance. In
many cases the feature pages are really close, yet some sections are
still blank.
In order to have your feature accepted for Fedora 9 it does not have to
be fully complete at this time. A completed feature page (all
sections--including "not applicable" as necessary) is needed by so that
FESCo has all the information it needs for consideration.
The accepted feature page for Fedora 9 continues to grow here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList
Thank you feature page owners and Fedora innovators!
John
16 years, 3 months