devel-announce December 2014

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Planned Outage: koji buildsystem - 2014-12-22 20:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Planned Outage: koji buildsystem - 2014-12-22 20:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2014-12-22 20:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2014-12-22 20:00 UTC' Reason for outage: The blade server hosting the koji buildsystem and it's database server will be having wiring work as well as firmware upgrades performed. The koji hub, it's database and a number of builders will all be down during this outage window. Affected Services: Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ Unaffected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ Badges - https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Blockerbugs - https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ GIT / Source Control - pkgs.fedoraproject.org Darkserver - https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - ns-sb01.fedoraproject.org, ns02.fedoraproject.org, ns04.fedoraproject.org, ns05.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Elections - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting Email system Fedmsg busmon - http://apps.fedoraproject.org/busmon Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Calendar - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora OpenID - https://id.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ QA Services Secondary Architectures Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4628 Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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F22 System Wide Change: wxPython 3
by Jaroslav Reznik 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

= Proposed System Wide Change: wxPython 3 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/wxPython3 Change owner(s): Scott Talbert <swt(a)techie.net> Get wxPython 3 packaged and into Fedora. == Detailed Description == This change proposal aims to get wxPython 3.0 (Python bindings for the wxWidgets GUI library) packaged and into Fedora. Currently Fedora has wxPython 2.8 which has not been updated since 2011. The plan is to make wxPython 3.0 co-installable with wxPython 2.8, similarly to what has been done with the wxWidgets packages (wxGTK and wxGTK3). == Scope == * Proposal owners: ** Update existing wxPython package so that it is co-installable with wxPython 3 (currently in progress [1]). ** Get wxPython 3 through the package review process, built, and ensure it can co-exist with wxPython 2.8 package. ** If all wxPython-dependent packages get moved to wxPython 3.0, consider retiring wxPython 2.8 package. * Other developers: ** For maintainers of packages that depend on wxPython: switch the dependent packages to use wxPython 3.0. This can be done package-by-package as time permits. The API hasn't changed much between wxPython 2.8 and 3.0, but some changes may be required. ** If a package cannot be moved to wxPython 3, after wxPython 3 is packaged, maintainers should verify that their packages continue to use wxPython 2.8 correctly when wxPython 3.0 is co-installed. A small change may be required to some packages to ensure they select wxPython 2.8 specifically. * Release engineering: None * Policies and guidelines: None [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142515

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F22 System Wide Change: Elasticsearch
by Jaroslav Reznik 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

= Proposed System Wide Change: Elasticsearch = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Elasticsearch Change owner(s): Jiri Vanek <jvanek(a)rehat.com> Goal of this change is to pack Elasticsearch into main Fedora repo. == Detailed Description == The Elasticsearch [1] is fully-featured self-standing opensource [2] indexing server. Many people and many tools do use it. And many people do want it in Fedora. Aim of this Change is to make elastic search available by simple yum install elasticsearch, and of course enable it as dependence. To build a custom indexing tool on top of elastic search is more easy than current upstream install and download. == Scope == * Proposal owners: ** pack Elasticsearch - nearly done - see RHBZ#902086 ** make it somehow works ** verify it works ** tune list of crucial dependencies ** enable Elasticsearch as service - something what have to be decided * Other developers: ** '''This is crucial part of this proposal''' ** Elastic search is extremely tuned application, and like it, its dependencies must be strictly kept in correct versions ** Currently known troublemakers: *** lucene *** netty3 *** sigar *** compress-lzf *** guava (currently needed 18, avaiable 17) * Release engineering: ** Nothing I'm aware about. * Policies and guidelines: ** Nothing I'm aware about. ** maybe... fedora is going by way - keep as updated as possible, if it breaks something, that something have to be fixed. This is not best for ES. Maybe ES can et some helping exception? [1] http://www.elasticsearch.com/products/elasticsearch [2] https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/

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F22 System Wide Change: Ruby on Rails 4.2
by Jaroslav Reznik 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

= Proposed System Wide Change: Ruby on Rails 4.2 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ruby_on_Rails_4.2 Change owner(s): Josef Stříbný <jstribrny(a)redhat.com>, Vít Ondruch <vondruch(a)redhat.com>, ruby-sig(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Ruby on Rails 4.2 is the latest version of well know web framework written in Ruby. Note: This change might be changed to Rails 5. == Detailed Description == The Ruby on Rails stack is evolving quickly and Fedora needs to keep pace with it. Therefore the whole Ruby on Rails stack should be updated from 4.1 in Fedora 21 to 4.2 (latest version) in Fedora 22. This will ensure that all the Ruby developers using Fedora have the latest and greatest RPM-packaged Ruby on Rails. == Scope == * Proposal owners: ** The whole Rails stack has to be updated ** Some dependencies of the Rails stack will need update For set of updated packages, see Change page. * Other developers: Update Rails dependent packages to be working with Ruby on Rails 4.2 * Release engineering: Not needed. * Policies and guidelines: Not needed

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F22 System Wide Change: UEFI Secure Boot Blacklist Updates
by Jaroslav Reznik 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

= Proposed System Wide Change: UEFI Secure Boot Blacklist Updates = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UEFISecureBootBlacklistUpdates Change owner(s): Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> Currently our implementation of UEFI Secure Boot does not include a facility to apply blacklist ("dbx") updates enabled by default. We provide a utility, dbxtool, which uses a systemd service to apply updates, and when there are updates we update that package with the new data. dbxtool is currently not installed on UEFI machines by default, and when it is installed, its systemd service does not default to enabled. == Detailed Description == In UEFI Secure Boot, the ability for a pre-boot binary such as a bootloader or hardware maintenance utility to be executed is determined by a whitelist of binaries and cryptographic signing certificates, as well as a blacklist of binaries and signing certificates which are no longer considered valid. When a signed binary is discovered to have vulnerabilities which allow it to be used to circumvent the Secure Boot security model, and thus render the system unable to prevent execution of pre-boot malware, the UEFI CA, in coordination with the UEFI Security Response Team (USRT) and the relevant software vendor, must undertake remedial action. The software vendor must fix their vulnerability and issue a new version of the software, and the old software must be blocked from execution on applicable machines. The first task is up to the vendor in question. Once the new version is ready (or when sufficient time has passed), if a vulnerability is being actively exploited or has a sufficiently high likelihood of being so, the UEFI CA issues a blacklist entry in the form of an update to the UEFI variable "dbx". That update is a cryptographically signed list of binaries and/or signing certificates in a format which may be appended to a specific UEFI variable. Currently Fedora includes the dbxtool [1] utility for updating the UEFI dbx blacklist. The dbxtool package includes the most recent UEFI CA blacklist update (they each include all data, so previous versions are not required) and a systemd service to ensure the update is applied to the system. Currently dbxtool is not installed by default on applicable systems, and when it is installed, its service is not enabled by default. This change principally takes place in three packages: * shim-signed must include a dependency on dbxtool * dbxtool must have systemd %pre and %post scriptlets added * systemd must include dbxtool.service in its 90-default.preset == Scope == * Proposal owners: Implement proposed change * Other developers: potentially the systemd-maint team, though I think I can commit the applicable change there. * Release engineering: N/A * Policies and guidelines: If we're keeping a list somewhere of things allowed to have system preset services, dbxtool should be added. [1] https://github.com/vathpela/dbxtool

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Planned Outage: Updates and Migrations - 2014-12-15, 2014-12-16, 2014-12-17 22UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Planned Outage: Updates and Migrations - 2014-12-15, 2014-12-16, 2014-12-17 22UTC There will be 3 outages, each starting at 22UTC on 2014-12-15, 2014-12-16, and 2014-12-17 which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2014-12-15 22:00 UTC' Reason for outage: 2014-12-15 - We will be updating servers and rebooting them with the latest updates. 2014-12-16 - We will be migrating database servers to RHEL7 and ansible deployed. 2014-12-17 - We will be migrating various other virthosts and instances to RHEL7 and ansible deployed. Affected Services: All services may be affected in the outage window, although we will try and keep downtime for any one service to a minimum. Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ Badges - https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Blockerbugs - https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control - pkgs.fedoraproject.org Darkserver - https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - ns-sb01.fedoraproject.org, ns02.fedoraproject.org, ns04.fedoraproject.org, ns05.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Elections - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting Email system Fedmsg busmon - http://apps.fedoraproject.org/busmon Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Calendar - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora OpenID - https://id.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ QA Services Secondary Architectures Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4614 Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above

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F22 Self Contained Change: Preupgrade Assistant
by Jaroslav Reznik 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

= Proposed Self Contained: Preupgrade Assistant = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Preupgrade_Assistant Change owner(s): Petr Hracek <phracek(a)redhat.com> The Preugrade Assistant is a tool to help people upgrade from one release to another and be sure to track important manual configuration changes they performed. == Detailed Description == The idea behind the The Preupgrade Assistant came from the notion that even during the rather short release cycles in Fedora occasionally there are changes that are incompatible between releases and which are either hard or nearly impossible to cover during a standard package upgrade. Examples would be major version upgrades of applications or services that change configuration file syntax or on-disk date format changes. The Preupgrade Assistant works by analyzing the source system and will generate a report which will offer information and configuration files for typically changed settings and services. It offers a plugin architecture where component or functional area owners can contribute and write their on plugins in python, bash or perl that can generate additional information for the report. == Scope == The Preupgrade Assistant is a standalone tool that doesn't affect any other component in the system. The scope for Fedora 22 is to provide the basic framework and initial plugins for general use. Additional component or functional area plugins rely on component owners to actively help working on them. * Proposal owners: Provide the basic framework and initial plugins for general use * Other developers: Provide additional component or functional area plugins (optional) * Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

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F22 System Wide Change: Perl 5.20
by Jaroslav Reznik 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

= Proposed System Wide Change: Perl 5.20 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/perl5.20 Change owner(s): Jitka Plesníková <jplesnik(a)redhat.com>, Petr Písař <ppisar(a)redhat.com> A new perl 5.20 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. See 5.20.0 perldelta [1] for more details. == Detailed Description == New perl is released every year and updates containing mainly bug fixes follow during the year. The 5.20.0 version is stable release this year. == Scope == Every Perl package will be rebuilt in a dedicated ''f22-perl'' build-root against perl 5.20.0 and then if no major problem emerges the packages will be merged back to ''f22'' build-root. * Proposal owners: New perl and all packages requiring perl or a Perl module will be rebuilt into f22-perl build-root. * Other developers: Owners of packages that fail to rebuild, mainly perl-sig users, will be asked using Bugzilla to fix or remove their packages from the distribution. * Release engineering: Release engineers will be asked for new f22-perl build-root inheriting from f22 build-root. After successful finishing the rebuild, they will be asked to merge f22-perl packages back to f22 build-root. * Policies and guidelines: No policies have to be modified to complete this change. [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.20.0/pod/perldelta.pod

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F22 System Wide Change: Change xorg input stack to use libinput
by Jaroslav Reznik 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

= Proposed System Wide Change: Change xorg input stack to use libinput = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg Change owner(s): Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> Replace the current (low-level) input xorg drivers with libinput using the xorg-x11-drv-libinput wrapper. == Detailed Description == Currently xorg uses different input drivers depending on the device type. This makes it impossible to do things like middle button scrolling on the trackpoint on laptops where the trackpoint buttons are software-emulated buttons on the touchpad. Besides this the xf86-input-synaptics driver was never really designed for multi-touch touchpads and this causes various issues. For Wayland we've been working on a new improved input stack, which is to be shared by all compositors and lives inside libinput. We plan to replace the current (low-level) input xorg drivers with libinput using the xorg-x11-drv- libinput wrapper. == Scope == Besides xorg changes, this will also require changes to the control panel applets for mouse / touchpad configuration in the various desktop environments, as those all are hardcoded to use the xorg-x11-drv-synaptics specific interfaces. * Proposal owners: Package libinput and xorg-drv-input-libinput (done), make sure that xorg-drv- input-libinput has the necessary config interfaces for control panel mouse/touchpad config applets (wip). Write patches for gnome-control-center mouse/touchpad capplet. Coordinate with other desktop environments. * Other developers: GNOME: merge the gnome-control-center patches. KDE: limits itself to standard X11 mouse config interfaces, no changes needed. Other Desktop Environments: adjust control-panel code to deal with xorg-x11-drv-libinput, merge these changes. * Release engineering: N/A * Policies and guidelines: N/A

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Reminder: Fedora 19 end of life on 2015-01-06
by Dennis Gilmore 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings. This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 19. Fedora 19 will reach end of life on 2015-01-06, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 21, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 19 collection. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more information on upgrading from Fedora 19 to a newer release. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUiI5EAAoJEH7ltONmPFDRCEMP/1Gh7JBy2mRQQxuIA+wqTX3u c4eE42Gld1TzH7bqtGXSBdVdgYIykqAF7jl/kHBRcfL9pKUzc0VyrIBKnxxIFl7e LGpFQJXgIg3nKIUSbX6VQohYiZQ9FvAnHp+oU+GdEg46uNViGWZQsL0PiBD1MV0/ 2pZg4GBQw/nHJoppGMEeMYJe2DTaTyRZ0+HL/H4ROfaMeSs6pu1ZtuqZlUSJx8J3 DIPLewfzbLapTITga2FnWU6IB+cYbBr5rP98F7/Hb3A9BCLysZy5NBu81ty4Xlqn hSYEzsxNFXfo1vrG7UcDOno/UVhukmrVNFw/JTf6+fHW2+FeHwXjnD16wD1JQ1KE 3m0nLgEKVSrPgRmeDT3z6jFXTsuhPx53bnoPcz1D5coVZ4zB/O6gt3xgq1phZNUC He/4CfADjIQivanuUfp8Wo2gEVOk+vwsgQ3DcTqWB5B0eXdyfiGepDp1alavpCXr 6Ca2xdiCF0R404ixndjZPG0ns9ezo8eTLBIYUOAga42U8gbKJ3t3BB0mlaawyEWm izd6+u/85OCSFwghoNSAFe0+YjPEVqjluGFzILihC7ROh+KVfkw6fOtW4HFwXMPl TUd5seF8w1eliO5HW1nxVQ3/i6zjMlA4hlF1wre+o2Q/f/J5Qg3xGSe0PjlcAMKd yhl0rdJSesuC/dE+CUzQ =4gwv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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