devel-announce June 2009

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Outage Notification - 2009-06-15 23:00 UTC
by Toshio Kuratomi 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

There will be an outage starting at 2009-06-15 23:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1.5 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-06-15 23:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem Websites specifically, PackageDB, Bodhi, and Fedora Community Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1460 Reason for Outage: Upgrading the PackageDB to version 0.4. This requires an update to the data inside the database which requires an outage. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -Toshio

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Fedora 11 Retrospective Happens Tuesday June 16, 2009 at 14:00 UTC (10 AM EDT)
by John Poelstra 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Have you ever wanted to give your perspective on how well the Fedora development and release process works, but weren't sure where to do it? Now you have the perfect opportunity! For Fedora 11 we are having a project wide conference all to reflect on the good and not so good parts of the Fedora 11 development cycle. There are two ways to get involved: 1) Contact your team lead to see if you can attend as the additional person from your team -or- 2) Add your name to the list of lottery participants for a chance to be one of the five people randomly selected. But wait, there is more! We are extending the cut-off date for the lottery to Sunday. Here's a little tip between you and me... as of the time of this email your chances of wining are 100% (okay, not exactly, but right now nobody else is signed and if that doesn't change, then you are on easy street! ;-) Sign-up details are here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Retrospective#Lottery Hope to see you there, John

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Reminder: no new Fedora 9 CVS branches
by Dennis Gilmore 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hi All, As Fedora 11 is released on Tuesday June 9th there will be no new CVS branches allowed for F-9 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/EOL lists the policy in effect. This means that F-9 is now in a maintenance only cycle, with EOL fast approaching, the exact EOL date will be set at the FESCo meeting this week. Dennis

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Fedora Elections and Release Name Selection - Voting Information
by Nigel Jones 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

Hi Everyone, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora 12 Release Name choice have been created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 7th June 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 22nd June 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/. Fedora Board Election: ---------------------- This election, the Fedora Board is electing three candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are Jesse Keating, Seth Vidal, Tom Callaway, Chris Tyler and Harald Hoyer. John Poelstra was announced as the board's first appointee with the second to be decided after the election. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: David Nalley (ke4qqq) Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore) Josh Boyer (jwb) Mike McGrath (mmcgrath) Tom Callaway (spot) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf12 Town Hall Logs: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_Board_2009-06-04_1400UTC * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_Board_2009-06-05_0200UTC Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- For this election, FESCo will be electing five candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Dennis Gilmore, Brian Pebble and David Woodhouse. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: Adam Miller (maxamillion) Andreas Thienemann (ixs) Bill Nottingham (notting) Christoph Wickert (cwickert) David Woodhouse (dwmw2) Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore) Ian Weller (ianweller) Jens Petersen (juhp) Kevin Fenzi (nirik) Kevin Kofler (Kevin_Kofler) Seth Vidal (skvidal) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of any other group. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof12 Town Hall Logs: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FESCo_2009-06-03_1400 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FESCo_2009-06-04_0200 Fedora 12 Release Name Community Vote: ----------------------------------------------- This community vote has been setup to choose the release name for Fedora 12. The choices for this vote were selected using community suggestions from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12. The options for this vote are in alphabetical order: Chilon Constantine Orville Rugosa Umbria To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef12 *** 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 Matt Domsch and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections. Regards, Nigel Jones Fedora Election Admin

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Rawhide moving on to Fedora 12 content
by Jesse Keating 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

I've made the switch tonight so that rawhide will be Fedora 12 content. This will cause a huge number of updates, if the compose actually finishes, and will finish quite late. For the next few days, attempts to use mirror manager for the Fedora 11 repo will fail. This is something we hope to fix at the Fedora Activity Day next week. Thanks for putting up with the delays as we try to get Fedora 11 out the door! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Action requested: check dist tags and conditionals
by Bill Nottingham 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

(If you've never used a construct like "%if 0%{?fedora}" in your spec file, you can disregard this message.) Many packages in Fedora use release-based conditionals such as: ... %if 0%{?rhel} %endif %if 0%{?fedora} < 10 %endif %{?fedora:%global _with_xfce --with-xfce} ... I'd just like to remind people of the following: - If you're using open ended conditionals such as: %if 0%{?fedora} > 9 make sure you keep in mind what will happen if %{fedora} isn't defined, such as in the case of a derivative distribution. - If you're building for EPEL from a unified Fedora spec file, and have separate %{fedora} and %{rhel} sections, make sure they do the right things for any potential new releases, not just %{rhel} = 4 or %{rhel} = 5. Thanks! Bill

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