[Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Alpha!!
by Jesse Keating
The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the
free operating system that shows off the best new technology of
tomorrow? You can see the future now at:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13a
== What is the Alpha release? ==
The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 in a form that
anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps
us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta
release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very
strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of
Fedora 13 is due in May.
We need your help to make Fedora 13 the best release yet, so please take
a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure
the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug,
please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make
Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the
announcement for more information on how to help.)
== Features ==
Among the top features for end users, we have:
* Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and
PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you
plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install
drivers for it if needed.
* Automatic installation of language packs. Yum language packs
plugin support makes software installation smarter and easier for
everyone worldwide, by automatically downloading language support for
large suites of Fedora software when the user's environment requires
it.
* Redesigned user management interface. The user account tool has
been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice
test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal
information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong
passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system.
* Color management. Color Management allows you to better set and
control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the
gnome-color-manager package.
* NetworkManager improvements include CLI. NetworkManager is now a
one stop shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up,
broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. And now it can all be done in the
command line, if you're into that sort of thing.
* Experimental 3D extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards.
In this release we are one step closer to having 3D supported on
completely free and open source software (FOSS) drivers. In Fedora 12 we
got a lot of ATI chips working, and this time we've added a wide range
of NVidia cards. You can install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
package to try out the work in progress.
For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
* SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities
to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python and Tcl, and
also user space applications starting with PostgreSQL. In the future
Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly
increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application
developers.
* Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows
developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to
get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an
exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development.
* Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable
Python 3 stack will will help programmers write and test code for use in
both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your
applications now using Fedora.
* NetBeans 6.8 first IDE to support entire Java 6 EE spec. NetBeans
IDE 6.8 is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java
EE 6 specification.
And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
* boot.fedoraproject.org. (BFO) allows users to download a single,
tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future
versions of Fedora without having to download additional images.
* System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded
features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline
authentication. This means that, for example, users on laptops can still
login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The
authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to
support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and
functional.
* Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the
NFS protocol for better performance, and in conjunction with recent
kernel modifications includes IPv6 support for NFS as well.
* Zarafa Groupware. Zarafa now makes available a complete Open
Source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Exchange
replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration and tasks.
Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile
phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail
servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look
and feel using modern Ajax technologies.
* Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating
lightweight filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into)
selectively. The created snapshots are copy-on-write snapshots, so there
is no file duplication overhead involved for files that do not change
between snapshots. It allows developers to feel comfortable
experimenting with new software without fear of an unusable install,
since automated snapshots allow them to easily revert to the previous
day's filesystem.
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of each
new cited feature is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?anF13a
We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/?anF13a
== Contributing ==
For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to
report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the
release notes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_release_notes?anF13a
Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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14 years, 3 months
Orpahning some packages
by Matej Cepl
Orphaning couple of packages:
- JSDoc (upstream has moved to competing project
http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/, so unless somebody needs this
package, I think it is ready for retiring from Fedora completely)
- python-urllib2_kerberos -- unsuccessful attempt to use this, lost any
interest in the package just a day after packaging it.
Both packages have released ownership, who wants to tenderly love them
so I don't have to coldly left them in the blizzard?
Matěj
--
http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/, Jabber: mcepl<at>ceplovi.cz
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for
support, rather than illumination.
-- Andrew Lang
14 years, 3 months
[Test-Announce] Bugzappers Meeting Agenda for 2010-03-09
by Adam Williamson
Event: Fedora Bug Triage Meeting
Date: 2010-03-09
Time: 15:00 UTC
Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Additions or corrections to the agenda? Reply to this email.
= Agenda =
* follow ups from last meeting
* your item here! (let us know before the meeting)
* open floor
Please do come out for the meeting - it'd be great to see more faces,
and we don't bite, we promise! It's a great opportunity to raise any
issues you've come across while bugzapping, or ask any questions you
might have.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
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14 years, 3 months
Fedora 13 has been branched!!
by Jesse Keating
That's right folks, we are now branched for Fedora 13. What does this
mean to you? Well that depends on who "you" are, here are some "you"s
that we wrote about:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Use_Cases
The real take away here is explained at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Branch_Freeze_Policy
The upshot is that if you want to get a build into Fedora 13, you gotta
build from F-13/ and you gotta put it in bodhi. The good news is that
if your package isn't critical path, it's just like any other update in
bodhi, you decide when it goes stable. If it's critical path, releng or
QA will have to give it karma, but that means somebody will look at it!
(We're working on ways to make it more visible to the user that your
package is critical path).
There are new paths on the mirrors too:
pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide <-- this is the new home of
rawhide. Builds from devel/ go here. This is now the F-14 development
ground.
pub/fedora/linux/development/13 <-- this is the branched Fedora 13.
Builds from F-13/ that make it through bodhi as stable show up here.
This is what we'll use to make the Alpha, Beta, Final release and all
the snapshots in between and the nightly attempt at instllable images.
pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13 <-- this is where the testing
updates go for the branched 13. Test 'em here before they go to stable.
For a better picture, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Tree.2FRep...
I have disabled the rsync part of the rawhide compose process so that I
can do things by hand tomorrow and ensure we don't screw up the mirrors,
so you'll see a delay in things. We'll also do the branched tree
compose by hand as well and then sync the output at the same time to
preserve hardlinks. It'll be a fun day! Hop by #fedora-devel if you've
got questions and somebody will try to help you.
Welcome to the world of No Frozen Rawhide!!!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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14 years, 3 months
Re: Update question: some user data
by Chris Jones
>>then i seriously think we are following different lists :/
>>as adam's poll is starting to show the majority of fedora users choose
fedora for the fact that it is >>leading the way with the newer software and
that it has constant updates. (ie >>freedom,friends,features,first!) this
argument that most fedora users want a more stable system is not >>what the
fedora users i came across are after. tbh i think this whole identity crisis
is blown of of all >>proportion, you'd think that something like this would
have come with the fedora10 dbus probs or the >>'stabilisation cannot be
detected' not now with a little kde popup window :0
+1 for these comments. I run both Fedora, Ubuntu and Sidux distros and find
that Fedora is the most cutting edge of them all. It's always the first to
introduce new technology whether stable or experimental. And that's one of
the reasons I run different distros, for different reasons. And the
aforementioned being the main reason I ran Fedora. Traditionally, Ubuntu's
(and Debian's) focus has always been more on stability rather than
cutting/bleeding edge. It's good because it gives us, the user, choice.
Which is what Linux is all about after all.
Cheers.
--
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14 years, 3 months
Update question: some user data
by Adam Williamson
I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread
about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and
controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those,
right?
Here it is: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=241710
I tried to present the poll in a very neutral way, and as far as I know,
it hasn't been linked to from anywhere else; only regular forum members
are likely to come across it. So it shouldn't be massively inherently
biased, and has a reasonable shot of giving us a vague idea of what some
Real Fedora Users think.
The numbers do surprise me, to be honest. As I write this, it's 34-8 -
that's over 80% - in favour of 'adventurous' updates. A lot of the
replies make it clear that people really do see being 'bleeding edge' as
being a part of Fedora's nature, and a part of the reason why they run
it. I wouldn't honestly have expected that; I'd have expected much
closer to a 50/50 split if anything. A lot of people explicitly say
things like 'I run Fedora so I can have the latest stuff on my desktop,
if I want a more conservative system I'll run CentOS'.
No, the voting numbers aren't huge, but it's still some kind of data. I
can promote the poll to the forum front page to try and get more input,
if desired.
What do people make of this?
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 3 months
Worthless updates
by Jesse Keating
It took me all of about 2 minutes to find a worthless pending update for
Fedora 11.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon-0.78...
No data in the bodhi ticket.
Rpm changelog says "Upstream update"
If I google for upstream and look for a changelog, I come to this:
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DRTECH/Locale-Maketext-Lexicon-0.79/Changes
in which the grand total of changes between what shipped with F11, and
what is in this update is:
* Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Tie
- Removed a deprecated use of "defined %" for Perl 5.11+
* Locale::Maketext::Lexicon
- Removed a deprecated use of "defined %" for Perl 5.11+
Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but
here is the kicker. The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11. So these
functions aren't actually deprecated in F11. So... why is this update
going out? What possible benefit does the user get from this? Does
anybody see this as a reasonable update to publish on F11?
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 3 months
Draft of maintainer and sponsor responsibility policies
by Toshio Kuratomi
At the last fesco meeting we talked about the ramifications of allowing
any person in the packager grop to commit to packages and decided that
rather than having more accounts and acls on to manage this, that it was
desirable to change the responsibilities of sponsors and maintainers.
The goal is to stop saying that a sponsor is responsible for cleaning up
after their sponsorees should the sponsoree start making bad commits to
a bunch of packages. Instead, the burden of looking for such bad commits
goes to the package maintainers who choose to open their packages to the
packager group. We want to encourage more sponsors to take on people that are
not yet good packagers but have the potential to grow into good packagers with
a little mentoring.
Updated policy drafts are here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_sponsor_responsibilities%28draft%29
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities%28draf...
and will be on the agenda for next weeks FESCo meeting.
-Toshio
14 years, 3 months
howto group push?
by Neal Becker
mercurial and tortoise-hg need (generally) to be pushed in sync. They
are maintained by 2 different people. What are suggested ways to make sure
pushes are synchronized?
14 years, 3 months
F-13 Branched report: 20100308 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Mon Mar 8 09:15:17 UTC 2010
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14 years, 3 months