Fedora Release Engineering meeting summary for 2010-02-01
by Jesse Keating
Minutes:
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Minutes (text):
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Meeting summary
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* roll call (Oxf13, 18:18:02)
* Present were Oxf13 warren notting wwoods poelcat and jwb (Oxf13,
18:22:17)
* old business (Test images for QA) (Oxf13, 18:23:16)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Composing_test_images (Oxf13,
18:24:02)
* action items completed, topic closed out (Oxf13, 18:24:47)
* old business (SOPs) (Oxf13, 18:25:11)
* orphan SOP steps sent to poelcat (Oxf13, 18:25:37)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Purging_orphaned_packages
(poelcat, 18:25:59)
* Orphans SOP reviewed, updated, and completed. (Oxf13, 18:27:23)
* previous SOPs reviewed and updated as well (Oxf13, 18:28:07)
* Standard Operating Proceedures (Oxf13, 18:29:02)
* ACTION: Oxf13 to work on documenting "Sign packages for Alpha" task
(Oxf13, 18:30:05)
* New /mnt/koji storage (Oxf13, 18:31:28)
* no new info on new /mnt/koji storage. (Oxf13, 18:34:54)
* dist-git update (Oxf13, 18:35:10)
* Not much done here this last week, more coding on the build task
(Oxf13, 18:35:32)
* struggling with the build task and the way koji can connect to your
terminal (Oxf13, 18:39:19)
* No Frozen Rawhide (Oxf13, 18:40:48)
* Second releng compose system was setup for testing (Oxf13,
18:41:01)
* ACTION: Oxf13 will test multiple concurrent composes to compare
completion time (Oxf13, 18:41:32)
* people who are using rawhide will continue on rawhide (Oxf13,
18:46:11)
* people who install from the Alpha or any later point of the forked
tree will stay on the forked tree and continue on to the release
(Oxf13, 18:46:23)
* Blocker bug review day (Oxf13, 18:47:08)
* open floor (Oxf13, 18:49:32)
Meeting ended at 18:51:16 UTC.
Action Items
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* Oxf13 to work on documenting "Sign packages for Alpha" task
* Oxf13 will test multiple concurrent composes to compare completion
time
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 2 months
burning an iso with gnome defaults -> confusing
by Rudolf Kastl
Hello
Burning an iso file with gnome is really confusing even for a technical user:
1. i insert a blank
2. i right click on an iso in nautilus and choose burn to cd/dvd
-> so far so good
3. i get a new window stating how much free space the blank has (but
in reality it already substracted the space beeing used by the iso you
want to burn)
-> this leaves the impression that the cd/dvd isnt really a blank
because it doesent tell you that it is the free space _after_ the burn
4. after burning if device polling is disabled (a typical setting for
laptops if you want to save power) it will tell you "burning failed"
while the burning itsself didnt fail at all, all that fails is
actually to poll the device...
-> confusing
there is lots to do on the usability front... like e.g. trying the stuff out ;)
kind regards,
Rudolf Kastl
p.s. this is not a problem for me but for other potential users with
less technical understanding
14 years, 2 months
Orphaning a few packages
by Debarshi Ray
Is any one interested in the following packages:
glade3 -- User Interface Designer for GTK+ and GNOME
ldtp -- Desktop testing framework
pida -- A Python IDE written in Python and GTK
Cheers,
Debarshi
--
One reason that life is complex is that it has a real part and an
imaginary part.
-- Andrew Koenig
14 years, 2 months
Upcoming Fedora 13 Schedule Tasks
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Thu 04-Feb Thu 04-Feb Create Installable Images for QA testing #3
Fri 05-Feb Fri 05-Feb Alpha Blocker Meeting (F13Alpha) #1
Tue 09-Feb Tue 09-Feb Feature Freeze (Testable|Complete)
Tue 09-Feb Tue 09-Feb Spins Freeze
Tue 09-Feb Tue 09-Feb Branch Fedora 13 from Rawhide
Tue 09-Feb Tue 09-Feb Orphan Rawhide Packages
Wed 10-Feb Thu 11-Feb Create Alpha Test Compose (TC)
Thu 11-Feb Wed 17-Feb Test Alpha 'Test Compose' (boot media testing)
Fri 12-Feb Fri 12-Feb Alpha Blocker Meeting (F13Alpha) #2
Mon 15-Feb Mon 15-Feb Package Alpha Wallpaper
Tue 16-Feb Tue 16-Feb Software String Freeze
Tue 16-Feb Tue 16-Feb Development: Start Alpha Freeze
Tue 16-Feb Tue 02-Mar Development: Alpha Freeze
14 years, 2 months
Draft privilege escalation policy for comments
by Adam Williamson
Hi, everyone. Since the big PackageKit brouhaha surrounding Fedora 12,
there's been a discussion surrounding the need for a policy about
privilege escalation in Fedora. Representing the QA group, we would like
for there to be such a policy in order to allow a meaningful review of
privilege escalation issues as part of QA's testing of Fedora releases.
I took this concern to FESco, who basically said they would be willing
to consider any policy that's brought to them, but won't initiate the
creation of one. I have asked the security list (which seems mostly
dormant), some security folks individually, and it's been discussed on
this list, but none of those seem to have been interested in actually
creating a policy. So in the end, QA decided we would propose a draft.
We realize this is entirely out of our area of expertise, but there
appeared to be no alternative. So, here's a draft policy for review.
This has been through three rounds of drafts within the QA group, and
includes content based on very useful feedback from members of Red Hat's
security team, particularly Miloslav Trmac. Thanks to him and to all
others who contributed to the QA group discussion.
Please do provide any and all feedback on the proposed policy. if we can
get it into a shape which most people on the list would find acceptable,
my next step will be to take it back to FESco for them to review.
Thanks.
You can find the draft policy at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_Fedora_privilege_escal...
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 2 months
How about firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12 ?
by Liu Yu Fei Eric
Hi,
I noticed firefox was stuck on 3.5.6 for a rather long time.
What about 3.5.7 and the recently 3.6? They are even not in koji.
14 years, 2 months
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
by Bastien Nocera
Heya,
I just committed and build gstreamer-plugins-bad-free to rawhide. This
package contains the -bad plugins shippable by Fedora.
If you maintain a version of gst-plugins-bad for a 3rd party repository,
or have a package that depends on either:
- gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux
or
- gstreamer-plugins-good's farsight plugins
You should update your package to require gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
instead.
Cheers
14 years, 2 months