Reminder: RPM Packaging Online Workshop : Today, 7:00 PM
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
I am going to running a workshop via #fedora-india IRC channel in
freenode today at 7:00 PM. You should have a recent Fedora system
running and make sure to install fedora-packager before coming up.
# yum install fedora-packager
Reading material at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/A_Short_RPM_Tutorial
I will be covering the basics of RPM Packaging in Fedora and you can
follow along and build a "hello" package. I can continue the session
for a couple of hours or until everyone gets their package built and
verified, whichever comes first. My nick is mether and I am usually
available in #fedora-india if you have any questions about getting
started.
Rahul
14 years
Fedora Summer Coding 2010 - now with more time!
by Rahul Sundaram
We have pushed back the first part of the Summer Coding 2010 schedule.
There wasn't enough time to find sponsors. Now there is more time for
mentors and students to generate ideas and write up good proposals,
while people like you and me look for more sponsors.
Highlights - note all due items now have an entire month more:
* Ideas page closes 13 May
* Proposals are due 20 May
* Sponsors must pledge by 21 May
Projects are set to start on 01 June, which is only a week after the
original start date. Our goal is to be as flexible as we can be after
that, contact us if you have any questions about how to make the
schedule work for you:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communication_for_Summer_Coding_2010
Here is the updated schedule, reprinted below[1]:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_schedule
For more details:
http://iquaid.org/2010/04/14/more-time-for-fedora-summer-coding-schedule-...
Thanks,
- Summer Coding SIG
[1] Full schedule
* April
7 April - Students can begin submitting applications
* May
Whole month - students, mentors, and sub-projects get to
know each other 13 May - Mentors need to finish idea
pages 20 May - Students applications + proposals need to be in
21 May - Sponsors must pledge funding by this point
24 May - Organizers finalize how many applications will be
accepted 27 May - Mentors + admins finalize
rank-ordered list 28 May - Students informed yes/no about
application
* June
Whole month - code, interact 01 June - Project
begins (depending on proposal) NOTE: Proposals may have a modified
schedule included.
* July
5 July - Midterm evaluations period begins 12 July -
Midterm evaluations due
* August
09 August - Project coding completes 16 August -
Students final report, code snapshot, and
evaluations due 20 August - Mentor evaluations due
for students 23 August - Final evaluations due back to
students 25 August - Mentor, sub-project evaluations due
* September
01 September - Sponsors receive report from organizers
06 September - Sponsors release and deliver funds (proposed
date)
14 years
Co-ment Free / open source software Web-based text annotation system
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Co-ment allows multiple people to work collaboratively on a document and
annotate and comment on specific sections. Useful if you are writing up
a proposal and want comments from the community on it. I think it is
useful to package it and run a instance on Fedora infrastructure for
Fedora related proposals. It is a pretty significant piece of software
since a variant of it was actually used by FSF to collaborate on writing
the GPLv3 license.
Source at http://www.co-ment.org/
If you want to see demos, take a look at some text samples at
http://www.co-ment.net/
Who is volunteering to package this one up?
Rahul
14 years
Fedora Tour : Call for contributors
by Ankur Sinha
hi,
I was just going through the FAD Pune page[1] and I noticed that there
are people who are interested in contributing to the tour project.
Would you folks like to start now? Instead of at the FAD that is in the
end of May? Please let me know and we can have a short irc session and
get started.
Please join us at #fedora-tour on freenode if you have any queries.
As far as the meet is concerned, how's Wednesday the 14th, at 1930 IST @
#fedora-tour? Interested parties please respond to this mail with a time
that suits you.
/me looks at Rangeen, Kishan, Hiemanshu
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2010#Agenda
--
regards,
Ankur
- FAS : ankursinha ; franciscod @ Freenode
- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5E9BF638
14 years
Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Beta!!
by Rahul Sundaram
The countdown is on: Fedora 13, "Goddard," is set to launch in mid-May.
Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that
continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new
release every six months.
But wait! What's that? You can't wait a whole month to try out the
latest and greatest in Fedora's leading-edge technologies? You want to
be the first to see what's new? Well, you're in luck. The Fedora 13 Beta
release is available NOW. Hop on board and take a tour of the rocking
new features.
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13b
What is the Beta Release? The beta release is the last important
milestone of Fedora 13. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as
updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 13, scheduled to be
released in the middle of May. We invite you to join us and participate
in making Fedora 13 a solid release by downloading, testing, and
providing your valuable feedback.
Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A
list of the problems we already know about is found at the Common F13
bugs page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs
If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed
before release by reporting your discovery at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. Thank you!
A universe of new features for end users:
* Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and
PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so
when you plug in a printer, Fedora will automatically offer to
install drivers for it if needed.
* Desktop enhancements. The Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup
backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client, and Simple Scan
scanning utility are all delivered by default to provide a
enhanced desktop experience out of the box.
* NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband,
Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager is now a
one-stop-shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it
dial-up, broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. Mobile broadband
enhancements now show signal strength. Old-style dial-up
networking (DUN) over Bluetooth has also been added. And now,
you can even use NetworkManager from the command line in
addition to the improved graphical user interface. Getting a
connection when you need it has never been easier to figure out,
whether you're at home, at work, at the local coffee shop, or
riding your city's wi-fi enabled public transport.
* Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as
they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as
what you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set
and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners,
through the gnome-color-manager package.
* Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and
iPhone models are supported by some of your favorite photo
management software, and music library applications such as
Rhythmbox. The devices are automatically attached using the
libimobiledevice library, so you can work with your content more
easily.
* Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver
for NVidia cards. In this release we are one step closer to
having 3D graphics supported on completely free and open source
software (FOSS) drivers. Fedora 12 saw the enabling of a number
of ATI cards; this time around, we've added a wide range of
NVidia cards to our list of liberated video capabilities. You
can install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package to try out
the work in progress.
* DisplayPort support improvements - Fedora 12 added initial
support for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel
graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems have now have
added in this release.
* Experimental 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. 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 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 Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated
development environment 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). 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. How does this help the sysadmin? This
means, 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 - Alternative to Microsoft Exchange. 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 -- automated snapshots allow them to
easily revert to the previous day's filesystem.
* Dogtag Certificate System It is an enterprise-class open source
Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate
lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smartcard
management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat
acquisition of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is
fully free and open source and now included in Fedora.
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all
the new features onboard Fedora 13 is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList
We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
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://docs.fedoraproject.org
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of
promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of
Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
--
Rahul
14 years
Fedora Graphics Test Week : This Week
by Rahul Sundaram
The Fedora project announces that this week is Graphics Test Week.
This is the highlight of the Fedora 13 Test Day cycle, with Test Days
for NVIDIA, ATI/AMD and Intel graphics all falling this week. Tuesday
April
13th is NVIDIA Test Day [1], Wednesday April 14th is ATI/AMD Test Day
[2], and Thursday April 15th is Intel graphics Test Day [3].
Although these are Fedora events, the results will ultimately benefit
almost all distributions: Fedora tends to use the latest versions of
graphics-related components and sends all its changes upstream, so the
fixes that result from these events will end up in all major
distributions. Even if you're not a Fedora user, you can help Linux as
a whole by contributing your test results.
The testing can be done using a live image, so there's no need to
install Fedora onto your system to contribute to the testing: just
download a live image, write it to a CD or USB stick, boot it, and run
through the tests. Comprehensive test instructions are available on
the Wiki pages, and you
enter your results into a table on the Wiki page; there's no need to
have a Fedora wiki account to do this.
QA team members and developers will be available on the IRC channels
throughout each event to help with testing and triage, and to work on
some of the problems immediately. The more results we get and the more
bugs we expose, the better it is for everyone, so if you have time,
please check out the Wiki pages and join the IRC channel -
#fedora-test-day on the Freenode network - to help out!
You can use WebIRC [4] if you're not a regular IRC user - just click
that link and you're in the chat.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-13_Nouveau
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-14_Radeon
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-15_Intel
[4] http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day
14 years
RPM Packaging Online Workshop : 16th Apr 2010, 7:00 PM
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
This is esp for FAD Pune 2010 participants but it is open to everyone.
I am going to running a workshop via #fedora-india IRC channel in
freenode coming Friday. You should have a recent Fedora system running
and make sure to install fedora-packager before coming up.
# yum install fedora-packager
Reading material at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/A_Short_RPM_Tutorial
I will be covering the basics of RPM Packaging in Fedora and you can
follow along and build a "hello" package. I can continue the session
for a couple of hours or until everyone gets their package built and
verified, whichever comes first. My nick is mether and I am usually
available in #fedora-india if you have any questions about getting
started.
Rahul
14 years