devel-announce August 2008

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Fedora 10 Beta Freeze coming soon
by Jesse Keating 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

The Fedora 10 Beta freeze is scheduled for the 19th of Aug, one week and one day away. I know it hasn't been very long since the Alpha release, but that's how we roll here in the land of 6 month release cycles. Beta freeze also marks the Feature freeze, so it is very important that you get your features into working, testable shape by then, or be prepared to try your feature again for Fedora 11. We'd like to treat rawhide as a slushy freeze at this point, we'll be doing full composes against rawhide to test for various things and be ahead of the curve come actual freeze time, so we'd like you to not land any really dangerous changes without extensive testing first, and notification to the Fedora lists about your scary change. If we all work together we can get through the beta freeze period quickly and be on to the bugfixing mode after beta releases. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule is the current schedule, although releng/Fesco/Board has the ability to change the schedule as needed. This week's meetings of the various boards, sigs, groups, etc.. should focus on Beta readiness. It would be good to take a moment to see what state your area of interest is in, and how likely it would be that said area of interest will be in a "testable" shape by the Beta freeze. If more (reasonable) time is needed, now is the time to let the project know so that we can effectively manage the remainder of our release schedule. Thanks for all your hard work in making Fedora 10 great! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora User Certificates
by Dennis Gilmore 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Effective immediately we have replaced the CA that is in use for cvs.fedoraproject.org and koji.fedoraproject.org This effects uploading to lookaside cache and building packages. There are some manual steps that everyone needs to do to be able to use the systems again. they are login to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ and click on the "Download a client-side certificate" link at the bottom of the home page. save the output to ~/.fedora.cert rm ~/.fedora-server-ca.cert ~/.fedora-upload-ca.cert fedora-packager-setup then open your browser got to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Encryption -> View Certificates -> Your Certificates Select your existing Certificate and remove it then import the new one from ~/fedora-browser-cert.p12 you will be able to log in to koji * Please note that you can only have one client side certificate at a time. when you download a new one your old one is revoked. Please also only click on the "Download a client-side certificate" link once as it makes multiple requests and revokes all the transient certs. the CRL is at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ca/crl.pem Thanks for your understanding and patience. Dennis

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Warning: Email bounces from Saturday August 16th until Tuesday August 19th 2008
by Seth Vidal 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Brief explanation: For a number of addresses @fedoraproject.org there were windows when those email addresses would have bounced reporting that the address did not exist. This happened as a result of the re-installation of the mail forwarding server. Please check all mailing list subscriptions to make sure you have not been inadvertently unsubscribed or disabled due to this error. Gory Details: During it's re-installation the postfix mail server was installed but it was not configured in the alternatives system so that its /usr/bin/newaliases command was the one being run. As a result sendmail's newaliases command was being run and it was changing the permissions of the aliases file such that postfix could not read it. It did not get noticed until Tuesday due to other issues taking precedence. The alias-generation would run once every 30 minutes. Breaking the aliases. Then our configuration management system would run on a slightly out-of-pace schedule with the aliases and correct the permissions. This problem has been corrected, sorry for the inconvenience. -sv -- I only speak for me. Friends don't let Friends use Sendmail

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Wiki Outage Notification - 2008-08-14 03:00 UTC & 2008-08-15 03:00 UTC
by Nigel Jones 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

There will be an outage starting at 2008-08-14 03:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. A second outage is scheduled to start at 2008-08-15 03:00 UTC lasting approximately 30 minutes. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-08-14 03:00 UTC' date -d '2008-08-15 03:00 UTC' Affected Services: Fedora Project Wiki Unaffected Services: All Other Websites CVS / Source Control Buildsystem Database DNS Mail Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/754 Reason for Outage: We will be performing database changes to the wiki database to enable searching by default for specific categories and to switch to the internal authentication methods. We hope to be able to leave the wiki Read Only during both outages. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. Thanks, Nigel Jones

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[Fwd: Fedora Test Day - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - Encrypted installs and Plymouth]
by Paul W. Frields 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

For people interested in contributing through testing, the upcoming Fedora Test Day on Thursday is a great opportunity! The #fedora-qa channel on IRC Freenode is always open in case you want to join early or help in some other way. Paul -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: James Laska <jlaska(a)redhat.com> > Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases > <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com> > To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com > Subject: Fedora Test Day - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - Encrypted > installs and Plymouth > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:00:53 -0400 (EDT) > > Greetings, > > Wanted to invite folks to join #fedora-qa this Thursday, August 14, > 2008 for a Fedora Test Day. The topic for this test day is Encrypted > installs and Plymouth. Perhaps slightly aggressive, but each are > closely related so it made sense to combine the events. > > There will be a cast of testers and developers on hand between 8am - > 5pm EDT (12:00 - 21:00 UTC) to help guide testing, answer questions, > triage and troubleshoot issues. > > Want to get involved? You don't have to be an experienced developer > or tester to join the fun. There are plenty of activities that need > your help, all leveraging different skill sets. > > For example ... > * Triage existing issues > * Validate fixes > * Exploratory testing > * Test execution > * Documentation > > For more details, please stay tuned to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2008-08-14. > > Hope to see you in #fedora-qa this Thursday! > > Thanks, > James >

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Board public IRC meeting
by Paul W. Frields 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Reminder: a Board public IRC meeting will be held today at 1800 UTC. Details are on the wiki at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/IRC -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Missing features from Fedora 10?
by John Poelstra 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

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Updated Fedora Privacy Policy
by Tom Callaway 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

This is a notice that the official Fedora Privacy Policy has been updated. A brief notice can also be found on the main website (http://fedoraproject.org) Previously, Fedora was using the generic Red Hat Privacy Policy, which did not make sense for a number of reasons. Fedora now has its own Privacy Policy at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/PrivacyPolicy I would encourage everyone to read the new Privacy Policy. This policy went through a public review process on the fedora-advisory-board mailing list, and was approved by the Fedora Board on August 5th, 2008. This new policy defines that more of your "Personal Information" is public by default. This will make things much easier for the daily workings of Fedora, however, if you wish for this "Publicly Available Personal Information" to be kept private, it is possible to do so in the Fedora Account System. It also enables us to be able to generate useful statistics about Fedora's ongoing progress. Last, but not least, it got rid of a lot of useless wording and confusing text about transactions and Red Hat services which are not applicable to Fedora. If you have any questions about the updated Fedora Privacy Policy, feel free to email me. Thanks, Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora Legal

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Announcing Fedora 10 Alpha!
by Jesse Keating 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

In an ongoing effort to prevent premature kitten death, the Fedora Project is ecstatic to present the availability of Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Alpha. Test now, make it better now, keep Cambridge on schedule, and protect the kittens in the future. The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of rawhide: * Alpha represents a sanitized snapshot of rawhide, Fedora's development branch, which undergoes rapid changes before becoming the next major release. * The Alpha should boot on the majority of systems, and provides: * A look at what new features are to be included in the next release * A way to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the next release is as good as possible Fedora 10 features Some highlights of Fedora 10 Alpha: * Many improvements, bugfixes, and enhancements from upstream * New graphical boot environment * Wireless connection sharing * Audio improvements to remove glitches * Security audit tool * Improved webcam support * Better IR remote control support * RPM 4.6 * OCaml * Haskell For more information: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Alpha/ReleaseNotes What to test Test status is being tracked here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestResults/Fedora10Install/Alpha Check out this page before reporting problems, including looking through the bug trackers as linked on that page. For a more detailed list of installation tests: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Fedora10Install Get the Alpha The Alpha release is available both through the mirroring system and via bittorrent. For direct http access to a local mirror: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Alpha/ For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols they support: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/10-Alpha/ For bittorrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Join Fedora To find ways you can help and participate, visit: http://join.fedoraproject.org/ -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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