Fedora 11 Preview Release announcement
by Seth Vidal
Memorandum of Intent to Release a Distribution of Understanding
Things this email is about:
- Fedora 11 Preview release
- Where to get it
- How to test it
- Where to report problems
Things this email is not about:
- If there are too many sliders on a volume control
- If there are not enough sliders on a volume control
- Grumpiness
Agenda Items:
- Release Fedora 11 Preview Announcement
- Tell everyone how to obtain the Preview Release
- Tell everyone how to file bug reports
Hidden Agenda:
- Joy
- Peace
- Occasional fun-loving snarkiness
Body:
This is the Fedora 11 Preview release, we're just a short time from
releasing the full shebang. Therefore we need the most testing we can
possibly get on this one. On the torrent sites you'll find live images for
testing:
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org and http://spins.fedoraproject.org
Everyone has been focused on fixing and closing their remaining bugs since
the Fedora 11 Beta Release. Please use Bugzilla
( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report ) to report any
problems you find (after making sure that somebody else hasn't already
reported the issues). The Preview release notes which can be found at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11preview/ will help you
with any other details.
Thanks and happy testing!
-sv
14 years, 7 months
Heads-up - rb_libtorrent: soname bump, rebuilds required
by Peter Gordon
I just pushed an update in F12's rawhide (devel branch) to rb_libtorrent
which bumps its soname from "libtorrent-rasterbar.so.2" to
"libtorrent-rasterbar.so.3"
I also made this update in the F-11 branch, but am leaving it in the
dist-f11-updates-candidate tag until all the necessary rebuilds are
complete. (I have filed ticket #1667 asking that the excellent rel-eng
folks to have it tagged into the buildroot override.)
This is merely a bug-fix release, so a simple rebuild should be
sufficient to work with this new version. However, should any problems
arise please don't hesitate to poke me incessantly. ;)
According to repoquery, the list of dependent packages (whose owners are
CC-ed on this message) is as follows:
* springlobby
* qbittorrent
Miro and Deluge also depend on rb_libtorrent, but only through the
Python interface (rb_libtorrent-python), so they should not need such a
rebuild.
Thanks, and Regards.
--
Peter Gordon (codergeek42) <peter(a)thecodergeek.com>
Who am I? :: http://thecodergeek.com/about-me
14 years, 7 months
Frozen for Fedora 11
by Jesse Keating
We've reached the final freeze, as well as mass branched. From this
point on, builds from F-11/ will go to dist-f11-updates-candidate and
builds from devel/ will go to dist-f12. dist-f11 itself is locked.
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 'dist-f11' tag in Koji. This is the tag for
rawhide, and what rawhide will compose from until F11 is done.
koji latest-pkg dist-f11f10-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
14 years, 7 months
Planned CVS Outage - 2009-04-15 0300 UTC
by Jesse Keating
Outage Notification - 2009-04-15 03:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2009-04-15 03:00 UTC, which will last
roughly 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2009-04-15 03:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
CVS / Source Control
Reason for Outage:
Mass branching for F-11
Contact Information:
Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track
the status of this outage.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 7 months
[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway
As usual, the Fedora Packaging Committee has been busy improving the
Fedora Packaging Guidelines.
Specifically:
The Packaging Guidelines now explicitly permit desktop files to be
generated inside a spec file (previously, this was implicitly acceptable):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#.desktop_file_creation
The Packaging Guidelines have a new section covering Explicit Requires.
They should be avoided in Fedora packages except when absolutely necessary.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires
The Packaging Guidelines have a new section covering Symlinks. There are
two types of Symlinks, Absolute and Relative. Neither is required,
packagers should use their own best judgement when determining which to
use in their package.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Symlinks
The Packaging Guidelines have a new section covering the use of %global
over %define. Whenever possible, Fedora packages should use %global.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#.25global_preferred_o...
The Packaging Guidelines have a new section covering the Use of Epochs.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs
The Packaging Guidelines have been updated to clarify the section on
Duplicate Files. A Fedora package must not list a file more than once in
the spec file's %files listings. If you think your package is a valid
exception to this, please bring it to the attention of the Packaging
Committee so they can improve on this Guideline.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplicate_Files
The SourceURL section of the Packaging Guidelines has a new subsection
on handling Troublesome URLs:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Troublesome_URLs
The Packaging Naming Guidelines has added an exception for Documentation
Packages to embed the OS version in the name. Note: Packages wishing to
leverage this exception will need to get explicit approval from the
Fedora Documentation Project.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Documentation_P...
The Scriptlet Snippets page section on Icon Cache handling was updated:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets#Icon_Cache
The Haskell Guidelines were updated:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Haskell
The PHP Guidelines were updated to handle Channel packages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC) and ratified by FESCo.
Many thanks to Remi Collet, Yaakov Nemoy, Lubomir Rintel, and all
of the members of the FPC and FESCo, 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:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
Thanks,
~spot
14 years, 7 months