devel-announce October 2008

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F10 builds targetted for dist-f10-updates-candidate
by Jesse Keating 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

In order to properly prepare F10 updates, all F10 builds are now targetted at dist-f10-updates-candidate. This is a setting in the 'common' directory of your package modules, so you'll want to make sure you're using an up to date common. The buildroot for dist-f10-updates-candidate is comprised of dist-f10 content, which means builds done in dist-f10-updates-candidate will /not/ automatically be usable in the buildroot. You'll need to request a buildroot override in order to do build sets. Also, any build that we break the freeze for and tag for Fedora 10 release will also be available in the buildroot. I have locked the dist-f10 tag so that no more builds can automatically get tagged. If you have a build that fails due to a locked tag, you can either ping releng, or manually tag it yourself for dist-f10-updates-candidate: # koji tag-pkg dist-f10-updates-candidate <build-n-v-r> -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Frozen for Fedora 10
by Jesse Keating 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Last night at 0555 UTC we froze for Fedora 10. The rawhide from 20081028 is the frozen content. At this point, builds for F10 are not automatically brought into Rawhide, and won't be in the Fedora 10 release. To request a freeze override, please use the Final Freeze Policy[1] If you're closing bugs by doing builds, please ensure that those builds get properly tagged for our final release. To check the status of your particular build/package, you can look at the contents of the 'f10-final' tag in Koji. This is the tag for the Fedora 10 release, and what rawhide will compose from until F10 is done. koji latest-pkg f10-final <foo> It's the last mile folks, lets make it awesome! [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Translation packagers: Rebuild before devel freeze
by Dimitris Glezos 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Reminding maintainers of Fedora-translatable packages to issue a build before the Development Freeze of tomorrow, 28/10, in order to have all translations submitted until the translation deadline of 21/10 included in Fedora 10 (otherwise our translator's hard work will go to the gutter). If you haven't received any translations since the last build, a rebuild is not necessary. Feel free to drop an email to fedora-trans-list(a)redhat.com if you have any questions. Thanks for caring for translations*. (= -δ *and, subsequently, 60%+ of our users. -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) --

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Blocker Bug Review Meeting :: Monday @ 14:00 UTC
by John Poelstra 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

A meeting is being held to review the current blocker bugs in anticipation of the Final Development Freeze this Tuesday, October 28th. All teams (thus the cc to f-a-b) in Fedora are welcome to join in and help. WHEN: Monday, October 27, 2008 @ 14:00 UTC (10 AM EDT) and going as long as we need to WHERE: irc.freenode.net #fedora-blocker Fedora 10 Blocker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=438943&hide_resolved=1 Fedora 10 Preview Blocker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=446449&hide_resolved=1 There still remain approximately 600 rawhide bugs that have not been triaged for potential blocker status and should be considered as well. These bugs are here: http://tinyurl.com/6llac8 Other tracker bugs of interest are here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Trackers John

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Fedora 10 Snapshot 3
by Jesse Keating 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

This is the final snapshot before our final devel freeze and subsequent preview release. On the torrent site you'll find install images and live images for testing. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ The i686 Live is just over 700M in size, so you /may/ have trouble burning it if your media is very strict about it's size. Of important note, these images do have a bug in them, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468360 where some realtek network cards will not initialize properly. This bug has been fixed in today's rawhide, which was too late for the snapshot. If you use the snapshot and fail to have networking, you'll need to update the kernel. Thanks for the testing! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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fedora-wiki list for wiki users and contributors
by Ian Weller 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Hi all, A new moderate-traffic mailing list for users and contributors of the Fedora Project Wiki has been set up. Among the discussions will be policy, announcements, and editing tips. The list has been created to bring together the wider wiki community split apart between different sub-projects of Fedora. If you are interested in these sorts of discussions, please subscribe to fedora-wiki(a)lists.fedoraproject.org at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-wiki We'll be glad to see you! -- Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com> http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~ Douglas Adams

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Features & Final Development Freeze
by John Poelstra 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

This message went directly to the feature owners below, but it didn't get to fedora-devel-announce. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup now at 100% https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar now at 100% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello Feature People :) If all goes as planned, the final development freeze will arrive a week from Tuesday on October 28, 2008. Final Development Freeze, defined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy means that all features and their associated feature pages must be at 100% completion by this date. The following features pages do not currently meet this criteria and should by updated by October 28, 2008: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EchoIconTheme https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting Yes, we know "this is Fedora" and "stuff is never 100% done" and all the usual arguments about "what does percentage completion really mean, etc., etc." :-) However, for the average user and members of the other Fedora teams it is important and very helpful to make one last update to your feature page to make it reflect everything that was completed for Fedora 10. The things that weren't completed should be removed or clearly labeled as slated for a future release. Feature pages not updated and at 100% will be raised to FESCo on October 29, 2008. Thanks, John

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Fedora 10 Snapshot 2
by Jesse Keating 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

This week brings us Fedora 10 Snapshot 2. This time not only will we have Live images, we'll also have DVD and split CD install images. Due to the amount of data to sync around, we're going to stagger the torrent releases, making them available as they finish syncing to the torrent server. Please keep watching http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ for new torrents to start showing up in the next few hours. Based on feedback from Snapshot 1 we're also adding a few more seeders to help get the bits out. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora 10 Final Freeze less than 2 weeks away
by Jesse Keating 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

We're getting quite close to the final devel freeze for Fedora 10. A week and a couple days is all that is left in the "free build" time. After that point, any changes will have to be explicitly approved as per the Final Freeze policy[1]. Now would be a very very good time to check the Fedora 10 Blocker[2] and Tracker[3] bugs for things that involve your packages. There is only this week's and next week's snapshots, then the preview release (which is just a snapshot with a different name) before our final release. Lets work hard and together to make Fedora 10 awesome! [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F10Blocker&hide_resol… [3]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F10Target&hide_resolv… -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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K12Linux Release Candidate 1 Now Available!
by Peter Scheie 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

All, It is with great delight that we announce that K12Linux Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. K12Linux is LTSP 5 built on Fedora 9, and is slated to become the successor to the highly acclaimed K12LTSP. K12Linux comes as a live image which can be used to create a LiveUSB or LiveDVD with the client chroot already installed & configured. Install the image onto a USB key, boot from the key, follow the simple README, and you have a running LTSP5 server from which you can boot clients. Like what you see? Just click on the install icon and K12Linux is installed to the hard drive. Get it at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/ltsp/rc1/i686/ RC1 includes * Fedora 9 & Updates as of October 12, 2008 * LTSP-5.1.26 * ldm-2.0.13 * ltspfs-0.5.5 * many bug fixes * New K12Linux-themed artwork for the login screen Thanks go out to all who contributed to making this release possible. In particular, we'd like to recognize: * Warren Togami for doing the lion's share of the work to get LTSP 5 working on Fedora 9, and for making the LiveUSB system work. * Maureen Duffy for creating the artwork used at the login screen and elsewhere. * All those who tested the previous Beta and reported & fixed bugs. LTSP 5 on Fedora 9 with Updates is currently considered to be production ready, and development of improved features continues rapidly. Check out our homepage at http://k12linux.org for the latest news and updated instructions. How to Use LiveUSB =================== * From Windows: Get LiveUSB Creator at https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator and use it to make a bootable USB stick containing this Live image. * From Linux: Download the livecd-iso-to-disk script from the same URL as the Live image and use it to make a bootable USB stick. Alternatively, the livecd-iso-to-disk script is included in the live image file. From either platform, it is highly recommended that you use a persistent overlay file of at least 800MB because this reduces the amount of memory needed for your demo. For this reason you should have at least 2GB free on your USB stick (~920MB image + 800MB overlay). * LiveDVD works, but is not recommended unless you have at least 2GB RAM for your demo. * You should install to your hard drive if you want to do more than just a quick demo. FAQ =========== 1) Why is this not called K12LTSP? It is the plan for K12Linux technology to be the successor of Eric Harrison's highly successful K12LTSP distribution. However, we had planned on changing the name to "K12Linux" to be friendlier sounding and easier to pronounce when people explain it at educator conferences. 2) Is this the only way to install a K12Linux server? This Live LTSP Server image is only a convenient way for new users to get started with K12Linux. Note that it is always possible to enable LTSP5 on any existing Fedora 9 server by following the instructions on the above homepage. 3) Why not LiveCD? LiveCD was not possible because we simply cannot fit Server, Client and apps onto a single disc. If all you have is a CD drive then your hardware is unlikely powerful enough to serve as a LTSP server. In any case you should be able to install from the LiveUSB without dealing with discs at all, and the performance is much more impressive. Please send questions or comments to the k12linux-devel-list. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12linux-devel-list Peter Scheie

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