[ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 RC
by James Laska
I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at
Red Hat. Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were
missed.
========
FINAL CHANGEOVER DATE: Friday, January 8th, 2010 6:00pm EST (23:00:00
UTC)
Mark your calendars! We are expecting the migration to take no more than
6 hours.
Please let us know at bugzilla-owner(a)redhat.com if this date is in
conflict with any release schedules, etc.
Greetings,
The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the release candidate of
the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream
3.4 code base.
So far there has been little to no feedback on our betas so please use
this last opportunity to test drive at:
https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com
Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla
to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the
upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in
different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization
footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes &
enhancements.
The main area of focus for our public betas are stability. Functionality
that currently works in our 3.2 code base should continue
to work as expected in the new 3.4 release. These include various ajax
optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product
browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API.
Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party
applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure
they continue to function properly.
There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't
listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people
have come to expect in 3.2 is possible in the new system.
There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream
3.4 release. For more detailed information on what has
changed since the last release, check out release notes here:
https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html
The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be
useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed
properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to
test for any performance related issues. Email has been
disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make
changes to bugs to verify proper working order.
We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with
testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this
the most robust and stable release possible.
Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current
Bugzilla system go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=3.4
To see current list of 3.4 related bugs as well as blockers for release,
go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=3.4
Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team
13 years, 5 months
FESCo election results December 2009
by Paul W. Frields
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Election Results for FESCo - Fedora 13 Cycle
Voting Period: 05 December 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 16 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC
Nominations:
* Adam Jackson (ajax)
* Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
* Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)
* Matthew Garrett (mjg59)
* Peter Jones (pjones)
* Richard June (rjune)
* Robert Scheck (rsc)
Outcomes:
As defined in the election text, the four (4) candidate(s) with the
greatest number of votes will be elected for full 2 release term.
Information:
At close of voting there were:
216 valid ballots
Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a
maximum of 864 votes (4*216).
Results:
1. Adam Jackson (ajax) 1028
2. Christoph Wickert (cwickert) 934
3. Peter Jones (pjones) 820
4. Matthew Garrett (mjg59) 753
* * * * *
5. Robert Scheck (rsc) 663
6. Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) 535
7. Richard June (rjune) 415
As such, Adam Jackson, Christoph Wickert, Peter Jones, and Matthew
Garrett are elected to FESCo for a full 2 release term.
- --
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13 years, 5 months
Outage Notification - 2009-12-18 02:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at 2009-12-18 02:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2009-12-18 02:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
Buildsystem
CVS / Source Control
Database
Fedora Hosted
Mail
Mirror System
Translation Services
Websites
Unaffected Services:
Torrent
DNS
Fedora People
Fedora Talk
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1884
Reason for Outage:
We have a lot of temporary solutions in place from the move, we're moving
things back to their more permanents solutions. The main outages won't
last the full two hours. The vpn setup should only takes 10-20 minutes.
The db1 migration will take at least an hour though.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
trackthe status of this outage.
13 years, 5 months
Outage Notification - 2009-12-12 11:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at 2009-12-12 11:00 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 '2009-12-12 11:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
Buildsystem
CVS / Source Control
Translation Services
Websites
Unaffected Services:
Database
DNS
Fedora Hosted
Fedora People
Fedora Talk
Mail
Mirror System
Torrent
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845
Reason for Outage:
This is the official outage notification that was mentioned days ago. The
ticket link above will have the most up to date information and we will be
coordinating the outage in #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net. At the time
specified above we will be powering down hosts, moving them on to a truck,
unloading them re-racking and re-cabling and powering on.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track the status of this outage.
13 years, 5 months
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta 2
by James Laska
I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at
Red Hat. Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were
missed.
========
Greetings,
The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the second public beta
release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream
3.4 code base. We have not yet received a lot of reports or feedback
from our last public beta, so please take some time to try out our
latest code release so that we will be sure that this is as stable as
possible when we deploy live.
Please test drive at:
https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com
Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla
to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has
incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different
ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus
maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements.
The main area of focus for our public betas are stability. Functionality
that currently works in our 3.2 code base should continue to work as
expected in the new 3.4 release. These include various ajax
optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser,
several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API.
Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party
applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure
they continue to function properly.
There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't
listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have
come to expect in 3.2 is possible in the new system.
There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream
3.4 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the
last release, check out release notes here:
https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html
The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be
useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly
and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any
performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary
spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify
proper working order.
We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with
testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most
robust and stable release possible.
Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current
Bugzilla system go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=3.4
To see current list of 3.4 related bugs as well as blockers for release,
go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=3.4
Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team
13 years, 5 months
Reminder: Tomorrow is the last F10 updates push
by Josh Boyer
Hi All,
Just a friendly reminder that Dec 11 00:00:00 UTC is the cutoff for
F10 updates submission. Ideally these would just be the final stable
updates, as pushes to updates-testing would basically be stuck there
forever.
Please take a few moments to review your pending requests, add any
final stable updates you'd like pushed, and clear out any update
requests that don't make much sense for a soon to be EOL'd distro.
josh
13 years, 5 months
Outage Notification - date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'
by Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC',
which will last approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d 'date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC''
Affected Services:
Database
Fedora Hosted (Just auth against trac)
Translation Services
Websites
Unaffected Services:
Buildsystem
CVS / Source Control
DNS
Fedora Talk
Fedora People
Mail
Mirror System
Torrent
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845
Reason for Outage:
Our temporary DB hosts are in PHX are ready to take on load. We're going
to shut down db1 and db2, do an rsync then bring them up. During this
time we'll also be configuring our new VPN.
Also, a reminder for those who don't read the link, we'll be having a
massive outage of many Fedora services this weekend while we are moving
our servers to a new location.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track the status of this outage.
13 years, 5 months
Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information
by Nigel Jones
Hi Everyone,
The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee have been
created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 5th December 2009 and are
scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 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/.
**** Please Note ****
There will be a Fedora Infrastructure outage during the voting period that
may effect the voting application, as a result we have brought the voting
start date forward to the 5th December instead of the 8th December.
As announced by Paul Frields in the event of extended outage, we will as
appropriate extend the voting period.
We have also implemented a new feature in our voting software, so users
can verify their votes. Vote verification can be done at:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/verify
You will be prompted for your Fedora Account System username and password
and a list of elections where votes have been recorded will be listed.
For more information please refer to:
Fedora Infrastructure Outage Information:
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg000...
* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845
Contingency plans in case of extended outage:
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-December/msg00...
*********************
Fedora Board Election:
----------------------
This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will
appoint another two members.
Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives
Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher
Aillon and Dimitris Glezos (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History).
The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:
Chris Tyler (ctyler)
Colin Walters (walters)
Matt Domsch (mdomsch)
Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf13
Town Hall Logs:
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fedora-board-...
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-02/fedora-townha...
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election:
-----------------------------------------------
For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the
committee.
Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák,
Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse.
The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:
Adam Jackson (ajax)
Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)
Matthew Garrett (mjg59)
Peter Jones (pjones)
Richard June (rjune)
Robert Scheck (rsc)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and
be a member of another Fedora group.
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof13
Town Hall Logs:
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fesco-town-ha...
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-03/fesco-town-ha...
Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election:
-----------------------------------------------
This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee.
These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot,
Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit Shannigrahi.
The candidates for this election, in no particular order are:
David Nalley
Jean-Francois Saucier
Joerg Simon
Luca Foppiano
Maria Gracia Leandro
Max Spevack
Robert Scheck
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Sandro Mathys
Scott Seiersen
Shakthi Kannan
Susmit Shannigrahi
To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora
Account System.
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof13
Townhall Log:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FAmSCo_2009-11-28_1800
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-11-30/famsco-townha...
***
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 John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with
organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections.
Regards,
Nigel Jones
Fedora Election Admin
13 years, 6 months
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta
by James Laska
Greetings,
I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at Red Hat. Fedora uses this instance of bugzilla too.
Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were missed.
Thanks,
James
==========================
Greetings,
The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first public beta
release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream
3.4 code base.
Please test drive at:
https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com
Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla
to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has
incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different
ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus
maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements.
The main area of focus for our public betas are stability. Functionality
that currently works in our 3.2 code base should continue to work as
expected in the new 3.4 release. These include various ajax
optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser,
several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API.
Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party
applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure
they continue to function properly.
There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't
listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have
come to expect in 3.2 is possible in the new system.
There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream
3.4 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the
last release, check out the Release Notes page.
The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be
useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly
and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any
performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary
spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify
proper working order.
We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with
testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most
robust and stable release possible.
Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current
Bugzilla system at bugzilla.redhat.com. File them under the Bugzilla
product and relevant component with the version 3.4. With everyone's
help we can make this a great release.
Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team
13 years, 6 months
Final F-10 updates push
by Josh Boyer
Hi All,
Fedora 10 will go EOL on December 17th. The final day for
updates to be submitted will be December 14th. Please make
sure any final updates you want pushed to the F10 repos are
submitted by this date.
Thanks,
josh
13 years, 6 months