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Beta Announcement Ready?
by Eric Christensen 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hey folks, just took a look at the Beta Announcement[1] and it looks good to me. Are we ready to let this one fly or is anyone still pondering a few additional changes? Eric [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Beta_Announcement

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Installation guide - another comment
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

Hi http://www.telephone-numbers-uk.com/how-to-install-linux-fedora-on-a-i586-s… Rahul

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FDSCo Meeting 2009-03-19 IRC Log
by Ian Weller 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Sorry it took so long to get out. Log attached. -- Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com> GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36

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Markup on wiki - please read
by Paul W. Frields 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

I've added a few extra templates for use on the wiki. I wish I had time to do more, but these should help get people started. You can add your own if you find other cases where these are useful. There is already a great template for marking up package names: {{package|name}} When you use this template, by adding e.g. {{package|foo}} into your page, you get a specially marked "foo" with a little package picture next to it. It also links to a useful page. Please use it any time you reference a package name in a wiki page. The templates I created are somewhat less useful except when you consider the idea of exporting wiki text out later. I created the following: {{filename|name}} {{command|name}} These are used wherever you'd use the <filename> and <command> elements inline in a paragraph. (You don't use them when the text appears on its own in a <pre> section on the wiki page.) I've updated some text on the [[Fedora 11 Beta release notes]] page, and invite you to take a look at it -- particularly the section on "xguest" usage. There is example usage in this paragraph that will help you get a feel for how to use these templates. I also invite people to create more of these. With standardized usage like this, we might be able to improve the chances of getting useful wiki exports to DocBook through e.g. python-mwlib or the like. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Anaconda woes and release notes
by Paul W. Frields 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi Docs team, As you know, the Beta has been slipped a week to March 31. Jesse Keating outlined the reasons for this in his announcement[1], which include issues in the Anaconda installer, which has had a complete rewrite of its storage backend. We *really* need Beta downloaders to be aware of these issues when they download, so they need to be called out well in the Beta release notes. Also, we want to encourage people *not* to hold off, because without more testing of the Beta, it is less likely issues are going to be found, filed, and fixed. (Hmm, three more "good f-words.") ;-) In particular, a couple things for which I believe Beta testers should have a super-big "heads up": * the storage rewrite, and how it affects their ability to install (problems are currently in RAID and properly picking up some LVM configurations) * ext4 as default -- I think this is still the plan; updates aren't converted, but fresh installs will default to ext4 file systems * BACK UP DATA!!!1!! Yes, we really should impress this on people, especially if they're in the RAID or LVM category (which is most people -- default installations use LVM nowadays). So we're trying to set reasonable expectations, while encouraging people to test, especially installation. I have some information on current Anaconda gaps, which I can include in the [[Common F11 bugs]] page, if that helps. * * * [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00015.h… -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Announcing Transifex 0.5
by Dimitris Glezos 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Indifex and the Transifex Community are proud to announce the newest version of their flagship translation platform, Transifex 0.5. Transifex is a web application written in Python using the Django web framework that gives translators a web interface to various version control systems. Files to be translated can be downloaded, translated files can be uploaded directly to the source repository, and various translation statistics can be read at a glance. Transifex is already in use by the Fedora Project to translate its interfaces to an audience of more than 5 million users. What does it offer? =================== Transifex currently supports the following Version control systems: - Concurrent Version System - Subversion - Bazaar - Mercurial - Git For statistics generation, Transifex supports static gettext message catalogs and intltool-based ones, used by the vast majority of open source software projects. What's new in 0.5? ================== A full list of the features offered in this release can be found in the release notes: http://docs.transifex.org/releases/0.5.html This release represents a significant advance in Transifex development since the Transifex 0.3 release in November 2008. Here’s a 40K-foot view of the release in numbers and most important feature categories. 243 files changed, 14027 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-) - Complete re-write of the source code on top of the Django Web framework - New data model supporting multiple repositories per project (eg. branches or domains of files), and project collections (eg. Fedora, GNOME, etc.) - Calculation of a project’s translation coverage (statistics) - Submission support of files to a variety of version control systems - Support for serving translation files to users for easy access to them - User registrations and authentication (including OpenID) - Simple workflow support What does it look like? ======================= The Fedora Project is currently running an instance of Transifex at: https://translate.fedoraproject.org/tx/ For some eye candy, check out the screenshots on our site, at: http://transifex.org/screenshots How can I get it? ================= Project and community managers who want to deploy Transifex for their own community can get Transifex in a variety of ways. A tarball of Transifex 0.5 is available at: http://transifex.org/files/ For full installation instructions, refer to the documentation section: http://docs.transifex.org/intro/install.html RPM packages for Fedora 9, Fedora 10, and Fedora Rawhide are or will soon be available via yum: yum install transifex transifex-extras RPM packages for RHEL 5, CentOS 5, and Scientific Linux 5 will be available in Fedora EPEL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Regards, The staff of Indifex and the Transifex Community http://transifex.org/ http://www.indifex.com/

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[jkeating@redhat.com: Fedora 11 Beta slip]
by Karsten Wade 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

In case you are not on fedora-devel-announce (and if not, why?) ;-) ----- Forwarded message from Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> ----- From: Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> To: fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com Organization: Red Hat Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:46:50 -0700 Subject: Fedora 11 Beta slip X-BeenThere: fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com Today we have decided to slip the Beta release by 7 days. There are a number of reasons, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=476774&hide_resolved=1 has gory details, but essentially: * Late discovered PPC breakage * LiveCD installation fallout due to anaconda storage rewrite * More time for anaconda storage rewrite to settle This is in no means a pointing of fingers, many factors led to the current state we're in now. Our task now is to determine the best way to get a valuable Beta release out to our users with as little effect to the final release schedule. As such, Release Engineering in coordination with QA and maintainers who are working on the above issue have agreed to enact a 7 day slip. The final release date will not change, we will absorb the lost week into the time between beta and final freeze. Rawhide freeze will remain in effect. Only critical changes will be tagged for the Beta, in order to maximize our changes at fixing the current issues without introducing new ones. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41

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Introduction
by kieran Moore 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

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Kudos to RH Docs people
by David Nalley 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Perhaps there was some announcement that I missed over the past few weeks as I have been pretty busy. I started looking in earnest this afternoon at the Install Guide and saw something caused me a bit of concern. Rudi has been doing a ton of work on the Install Guide and when I looked at the git log I noticed repeated entries like: Merged $foo from RHEL IG. This set off alarms in my head as I 'KNEW' RH docs were OPL + the NC clause. I went to confirm this with the docs and noticed the changelog on the RHEL Install Guide for 1/5/09 noted the following change: revised Legal Notice, removed restrictions See: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installati… Kudos to the RH Docs people for being bold and using a free license.

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Installing guide - comment
by Rahul Sundaram 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi Not a specific comment at all but thought I would pass this along http://linagra.com/2009/03/how-do-i-download-and-install-fedora-11/ Rahul

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