mentors June 2006

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self - introduction
by Chitlesh GOORAH 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hello there, I'm Chitlesh GOORAH. Most of you already know me for some reason or another. I have been fairly around the Fedora Project for a while. Here is my wikipage: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah I would like to join in the Fedora Mentors Team: - Ambassadors, since several times I've guided new ambassadors with the procedures - On the wiki, I feel at ease with MoinMoin. I will update my wikipage accordingly if there are no objection about my participation in the Fedora Mentors Regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Fwd: Want to help with fedora porject]
by Máirín Duffy 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hey, Does anybody have time this or next Friday to help Shivakar out with a Fedora bug day? (I'm going to be at GUADEC) ~m -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Want to help with fedora porject Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:33:16 -0500 From: Vulli, Srinivasa Shivakar (UMR-Student) <ssvh27(a)umr.edu> To: <duffy(a)redhat.com> Hi Ms.duffy, My name is Shivakar. I have been Redhat and now Fedora for almost 7 years now. I use fedora at my work, and home for programming and desktop use. I would now like help fedora project and contribute something back to the community. I would like you to point me in the right direction. Coming to me. I am currently doing my MS in Mechanical Engineering at Univ of Missouri Rolla. I have good programming experience and can program in C, C++, Perl and Java. As a part of my work as a Graduate Research Assitant with the Dept. of Elec. Engg I administer a 4 node cluster running Fedora core 4. I currently work with PVM and MPI for programming parallel image processing applications. I am interested in helping out with the fedora-triage (bugzapper) project. Kindly tell me how I can start. I have looked at the triage guidelines page and will participate with the group next friday. If there is something I should know. Kindly mail me. Thanks, Shivakar P.S.: This is the same mail I sent to Rahul Sundaram, and got no reply. Maybe he is busy. The thing is I believe that when someones hands are itching for work, you gotta give him some work before the itching stops for high productivity (just kidding!!). I was just hoping someone would put me in the right track asap. thats all. -- Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)redhat.com> Interaction Designer Red Hat Network :: Red Hat, Inc. Westford, MA 978.392.3908

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I would like to join the Fedora Project (fwd)
by David Eisenstein 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi folks, I received this message yesterday or so. I have not yet responded. Am not sure how to respond to this query. Normally I respond to queries with a plug for the project I work with and specifically mentor for (Fedora Legacy) but somehow I don't think that appropriate for this particular person. Sounds like this fellow wants to help *develop* software, not maintain existing software for security vulnerabilities. Do any of you have suggestions, or would any of you like to respond to this fellow? I'd appreciate hearing from you either way. Thank you. Warm regards, David Eisenstein ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mashuq Rahman <mashuq(a)hotmail.com> To: deisenst(a)gtw.net Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:11:00 +1100 Subject: I would like to join the Fedora Project Hello, A bit abt me - I am a 3rd year comp scie student and would like to help/contribute to Fedora as much as I can with my programming knowledge./ I personally use fedora core 5 on my laptop. I have good knowledge of Java and working knowledge on C. I dont have any previous experience of working on a large software development project consisting many people. I hope u can help and guide me to join the Fedora community and contribute. hope to hear from you soon Mashuq _________________________________________________________________ <<snip of blurb advertising MSN Messenger>>

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Intro-time
by Bart Couvreur 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi everyone, I'm Bart Couvreur, a member of the Fedora community for quite some time now (since fc2). I'm active in Translation, Documentation, Websites and Kadischi. Recently I started an effort to get a Dutch trans-team in place, to which I got a lot of response and a few pointers to this project. So here I am, willing to mentor translators (software, docs, wiki). Bart aka couf Key fingerprint = 6AAB 544D 3432 D013 776D 3602 ADB6 6B2A D93F 0F93 PS: I've been reading the list archives and I've seen a banner for this project, but it never made it to the wiki, maybe we should get it in place now? Link: http://people.redhat.com/duffy/misc/mentorbanner.png

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error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found
by Marc Wiriadisastra 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hi All, My first discussion re packaging. I get this error now a bit of googling and finding that on the mailing list it relates to an error where the files installed are not listed in the files section. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If thats the case that all files installed have to be listed in the files section how do people go about installing python packages. My direct example which I'll list here for completeness of the question is because in my circumstance there is not a build for this python package using the standard tools. rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name} install -m 644 *.py ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name} mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/BitTorrent install -m 644 BitTorrent/* ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/BitTorrent mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/images/flags install -m 644 images/flags/* ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/images/flags install -m 644 images/*.png ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/images/flags install -m 644 images/*.ico ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/images/flags mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES install -m 644 locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/* ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/locale/h4/LC_MESSAGES install -m 644 locale/h4/LC_MESSAGES/* ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/%{name}/locale/h4/LC_MESSAGES Its basically a script to install all the necessary files into the respective locations. The actual running of the program is a bash script file that runs it using the python -OO /usr/share/rufus/rufus.py Am I going about this the completely wrong way? Regards, Marc

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[Legacy] Mentoring for vulnerability bug tracking -- kernel, and general
by David Eisenstein 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Hi, (Please forgive me for cross-posting, but I thought I'd post this question to all the relevant groups I could think of. Please let me know if I am committing a cross-posting felony here. :) ) I am in the process of mentoring someone to help them learn how to do vulnerability tracking for Fedora Legacy. This evening, we were looking at doing that for the kernels. We quickly got confused, though, because we weren't sure how to go about making sure we only report issues into Bugzilla that would be relevant kernel issues for Fedora Legacy at this time. One complicating factor here is that we in Legacy don't necessarily release kernels in any kind of lock-step with what either Fedora Core or Red Hat Enterprise Linux does, so the issues we have to fix are a different subset of issues than what is reported in any given RHSA or FEDORA release announcement. And even if we did release kernels in lockstep, no doubt there would still be differing CVE's per distro. (For those of you not familiar with Legacy processes: we normally put multiple CVE issues [maybe as many as dozens of CVE's] into a single bugzilla report for a given .src.rpm component; and we also put multiple distros in a given bugzilla ticket as well, using a "Version" tag of "unspecified" and tracking what distros are being worked on and their statuses via the use of Status Whiteboard entries. For more information about this, you can refer to <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/StatusWhiteboard>, and the most recent completed Legacy kernel bug is here in case you're interested: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157459>.) I started to suggest to my mentee this method: Have a look at the latest release announcements from Fedora Legacy for the kernels that we maintain, and then look for issues in the usual places (e.g., those resources listed in <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/VulnerabilityTracking>) that have come up since we released our latest security-fixed kernels. That would provide a list of CVE's to then put in a new Bugzilla ticket or add to an already-existing ticket that would likely be relevant. But is this enough? Does this method sound workable to you? Are we missing something? Do you have you have some better ideas how to track kernel vulnerabilities to get those vulnerabilities properly listed in a Bugzilla ticket to be worked on? A more general question is this: How do we in Fedora Legacy track vulnerabilities and make sure that we are aware of all the relevant vulnerabilities for the packages that we maintain, and haven't missed something? The fedora-security-list and Josh Bressers are using audit files to track all relevant security vulnerabilities for their sets of packages, which are kept in CVS here, <http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/fedora-security/audit/?root=fedora> but we here in Fedora Legacy haven't started using this kind of tool yet. Is it time for us to start doing so? If so, are any of you interested in forming some kind of vulnerability tracking team and getting started on such list(s) for the products we maintain? Thanks much in advance! Regards, David Eisenstein

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