Fedora Weekly News Issue 96
by Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 96 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 96[1] for the week of July 8th
through July 14th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2]
and RSS Feed can be found here[3].
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue96
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue
[3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed
1. Announcements
1. The "new" Fedora Board
2. FESCo Elections -- voting open
2. Planet Fedora
1. Attn: Content Management Geeks
2. Fedora 8 themes - Round 1
3. RMLL07 : Alan Cox on fedora-fr booth
3. Marketing
1. How's Fedora 7 Faring?
2. Fedora 7 KDE spin and Akademy
4. Developments
1. Video and Keymap Quirks
2. OLPC software: our first release and beyond
5. Maintainers
1. The Weekly EPEL Report
2. Fever Hits Fedora
6. Documentation
1. Current Status of Man/Info GSoC Project
2. Help Define Docs Workflow
7. Translation
1. Translation Website
8. Infrastructure
1. Fedorapeople.org
2. Outage Info
3. DB Upgrade
4. Common Problems Solved?
9. Artwork
1. More Theme Proposals
2. Nodoka Theme Engine
10. Security Week
1. Flash Player Security Update
2. Security and Accountability
11. Daily Package
1. Paquet Fedora du jour
2. ooo2txt - OpenOffice.org documents to Text
3. Ardour - Digital Audio Workstation
4. Menus
5. System-config-lvm - LVM GUI tool
6. Stellarium - Software planetarium
12. Advisories and Updates
1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories
2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories
13. Events and Meetings
1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-07-10
2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD
3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-07-12
4. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-11
5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-MM-DD
6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-10
7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-09
8. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-10
14. Feedback
== Announcements ==
In this section, we cover announcements from various projects.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== The "new" Fedora Board ===
MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1]
"We've just completed the first Fedora Board[2] succession process,
and I wanted to take a moment to share the results with everyone.
Staying on for another release cycle are SethVidal, BillNottingham,
ChristopherBlizzard, and MattDomsch."
"Joining them are 5 new Board members: KarstenWade, DennisGilmore,
ChristopherAillon, JefSpaleta, SteveDickson"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00005.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board
=== FESCo Elections -- voting open ===
BrianPepple announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"Voting is now open for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee
elections. All 13 seats are up for election. The candidates are (in
alphabetical order):"
(See the announcement for a list of candidates.)
"For details and some future plans of these fine people see:[2]"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00006.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
== Planet Fedora ==
In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet
Contributing Writers: ThomasChung
=== Attn: Content Management Geeks ===
KarstenWade points out in his blog[1],
"Now is the time to weigh in on the next generation of the Fedora
Documentation Publishing Platform. JonathanSteffan is running this as
his Summer of Code project."
"Our goal is to enable 10x the current number of people to be active
publishers of formal Fedora content. Out goal is to make writing,
editing, translating, and publishing content for Fedora fun, easy, and
profitable. If you have any insights in to how we should define our
custom workflow and how we might want to tweak the default workflow in
Plone, please join the discussion[2]."
[1] http://iquaid.livejournal.com/21006.html
[2] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
=== Fedora 8 themes - Round 1 ===
NicuBuculei points out in his blog[1],
"Later today, 11 July, is the end date of the Round 1 in the 3 round
process to create a new theme[2] for the next release, Fedora 8. The
focus in the first round was to gather ideas, concepts, metaphors,
which would be refined in the next two rounds. Here is what we got so
far:"
(See a list of proposed themes in his blog)
[1] http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2007/07/fedora-8-themes-round-1.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes
=== RMLL07 : Alan Cox on fedora-fr booth ===
MaximeCarron points out in his blog[1],
"First and little post from RMLL[2] (Free Software World Meetings).
It's a really great pleasure to have AlanCox on our booth."
(See two event photo from his blog)
[1] http://blog.fedora-fr.org/pingoomax/post/RMLL07-%3A-Alan-Cox-on-fedora-fr...
[2] http://www.rmll.info/
Editor's Note: More complete event photos are available at[1].
[1] http://carron.maxime.free.fr/fedora/photos/rmll07/
== Marketing ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== How's Fedora 7 Faring? ===
RahulSundaram reports in fedora-marketing-list[1],
"It's been about one month since the release of Fedora 7 and we
thought it was time to give you a few updates."
"We've had over 300,000 installations of Fedora 7 in the first month
since its release on May 31. That number is thus far pretty in-line
with expectations, given that Fedora Core 6 received close to 400,000
installations in its first month, and we expect that people will wait
a little while to upgrade their systems. Fedora keeps a statistics
page[2] with information about the newest releases if you'd like to
learn more."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00019....
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics
=== Fedora 7 KDE spin and Akademy ===
RahulSundaram reports in fedora-marketing-list[1],
"Rex Dieter from the KDE SIG in Fedora gave a talk[2] about the Fedora
7 KDE spin Akademy, the KDE conference. Apparently, Fedora is the only
major distribution planning to include KDE 4 by default in the next
version."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00017....
[2] http://akademy.kde.org/conference/talks/07.php
Editor's Note: Here is corrected link of the video[1] of his talk.
[1] http://home.kde.org/~akademy07/videos/1-20-Fedora_7_KDE_spin.ogg
== Developments ==
In this section, we cover the problems/solutions,
people/personalities, and ups/downs of the endless discussions on
Fedora Developments.
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
Contributing Writer: RahulSundaram
(Our regular contributor OisinFeeley is not available for this week.
RahulSundaram is contributing for this week. If you follow
fedora-devel-list closely and would like to contribute for next week,
please contact ThomasChung. )
=== Video and Keymap Quirks ===
RichardHughes reports in fedora-devel-list[0],
"You might have heard about the HAL quirk site [1] for suspend and resume
quirks before, but now we are collecting keymap quirks to make the
special buttons such as multimedia keys and Fn function keys do the
right thing."
"I've blogged about this yesterday[2], but I am asking for patches from
the fedora development community. In this way we can make laptop special
keys "just work" for Fedora 8."
"With a little help, we can make F8 on a laptop seriously rock [3]."
[0] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00541.html
[1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
[2] http://hughsient.livejournal.com/29730.html
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureLaptopImprovements
=== OLPC software: our first release and beyond ===
WalterBender reports in LWN[1],
"OLPC[2] software efforts have been, from Day 1, a community effort. The
extent to which the community has risen to the occasion at every
level—from firmware to application and content development—is an
inspiration. As we approach our final series of trial software
releases this summer and our first release this fall, it is
appropriate to reflect on what we have achieved and where we are
heading."
"Our choice of Fedora—we are almost transitioned to the newly-released
Fedora Core 7—as our distribution has also contributed to controversy
within the Linux community. There are any number of small-footprint
distributions that may well have served our purposes, but Fedora met
and continues to meet our needs; and the dedication of the Red Hat
team at every level has been extraordinary. Without the likes of
MarceloTosatti and DavidWoodhouse, we would be far short of our
goals. Red Hat shares our uncompromising dedication to free and
open-source solutions and continues to go the extra mile to ensure
that neither quality or principles are sacrificed."
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/240536/
[2] http://laptop.org/
== Maintainers ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Maintainers, the group of people who
maintain the software packages in Fedora.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers
Contributing Writer: MichaelLarabel
=== The Weekly EPEL Report ===
With this past week's EPEL report[1], the most important happenings
has been enacting a policy for branching packages for EPEL if the
Fedora maintainer doesn't react and a target date for an official EPEL
announcement. On July 19 is the date for the EPEL announcement and all
broken dependencies need to be fixed before hand. This announcement
was later delayed to July 26 [2].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00075.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00141.html
=== Fever Hits Fedora ===
Fever, a way to check upstream version changes, was previously for
Fedora Extras, but thanks to Koji and work done by Michael Bentkowski,
it can now be used against all Fedora packages[1].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00080.html
== Documentation ==
In this section, we cover the Fedora Documentation Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts
=== Current Status of Man/Info GSoC Project ===
RiaDas writes to the list to provide an update on the current status
of his Google Summer of Code project[1]. The current status is
regularly updated on his SoC wiki page[2]; the total project plan can
also be found on the wiki[3].
As it stands, man pages are being converted to HTML using man2html,
but he is struggling to find a similar tool for info pages. The other
question currently being struggled with is whether to display the diff
for man pages across releases based on HTML files, or on the ROFF
files.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00034.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RiaDas/SoC
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/RiaDas
=== Help Define Docs Workflow ===
KarstenWade posted[1] to the list following a conversation with
JonathanSteffan about his current development work, creating the next
generation publishing system for the DocsProject. It is intended that
this new system will make it much easier to write, edit and publish
using everyone's favorite tools. Included in the mail is a number of
questions JonathanSteffan had, and would like feedback from anybody
who has experience with the workflow fo the DocsProject; as always, if
you can help drop a note to the fedora-docs-list[2].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00052.html
[2] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
== Translation ==
This section, we cover the news surrounding the Fedora Translation
(L10n) Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
Contributing Writer: JasonMatthewTaylor
=== Translation Website ===
The http://translate.fedoraproject.org website is nearly ready after a
lot of work from Dimitris Glezos and others. This should be a big help
in the future with organization of the group and tracking of tasks and
progress.
== Infrastructure ==
In this section, we cover the Fedora Infrastructure Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure
Contributing Writer: JasonMatthewTaylor
=== Fedorapeople.org ===
SethVidal and MikeMcGrath attempted to clear up[1] how
fedorapeople.org can be access and/or used by developers and the
Fedora users.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg0...
=== Outage Info ===
MikeMcGrath posted[1] about the new outage information page which can
be used by the admins or just information for the curious user(s). The
page can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/SOP/Outage
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg0...
=== DB Upgrade ===
This week saw the DB upgrade/migration completed[1], both Postgres and
MySQL were upgraded and multiple DB's were migrated to a new box (at
least for the short term).
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg0...
=== Common Problems Solved? ===
The Infrastructure group has a page,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CommonProblems that
addresses some frequently seen issues that users/volunteers can/will
be faced with. The initial post can be seen here[1].
[1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/ms...
== Artwork ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts
=== More Theme Proposals ===
MartinSourada sent a message[1] to the list announcing his new theme
proposal, Floating Cubes[2], using ideas taken from linear algebra.
MolaPahnadayan also sent a message[3] to the list, announcing another
proposed theme, entitled Thunder[4].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00081.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes/FloatingCubes
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00083.html
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00083.html
=== Nodoka Theme Engine ===
Work on the Nodoka GTK+ and Metacity theme is now progressing rapidly,
with a modified version of the Murrine theme engine having been
created to allow greater flexibility and to make it easier to achieve
the final look the team desire[1]. The theme engine has now been
packaged, along with the Metacity theme, and are available on the
wiki[2]. These packages are set to be sent for review, with the hope
that they will make an appearance in the repositories of Fedora 8 Test
1 or Test 2; on the advice of MatthiasClasen they were repackaged to
reflect new standards for artwork packaging[3].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00095.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/NodokaTheme
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00109.html
== Security Week ==
In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.
Contributing Writer: JoshBressers
=== Flash Player Security Update ===
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-12.html
Adobe released a new version of flash player last week. The update in
itself isn't terribly significant, but this brings up a great
opportunity to stress the importance of not running Flash Player as a
standalone plugin. Firefox currently has the ability to magically
install Flash Player if you visit a site that requires it, and you
don't have it installed. The problem with this installation method is
that you will never get security updates for your local copy. Fedora
users should install flash from mplug.org here:
http://macromedia.mplug.org/
This is a great service WarrenTogami provides. As long as you rely on
this yum repository for Flash Player, you should receive the necessary
updates to keep your browser secure.
=== Security and Accountability ===
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/07/10/security-issue-in-url-protoco...
Last week a security flaw was found in the way Internet Explorer
passes a URL to Firefox. This done via a special protocol handler
that Firefox registers when installed on a windows system. Microsoft
claims this isn't their problem, Mozilla claims it is. Luckily this
flaw is going to be fixed in Firefox. It's admirable that the Firefox
developers are willing to do what's best for their users.
The moral of this story is that there are significant advantages to
the current Linux distribution model. If a similar flaw was found in
Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, there is nobody to bicker with.
It's not uncommon for vendors to spend more time pointing fingers at
each other when something goes wrong. There can certainly be an
advantage to getting all your bits from one place.
== Daily Package ==
In this section, we recap the packages that have been highlighted as a
Fedora Daily Package.
http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/
Contributing Writer: ChrisTyler
=== Paquet Fedora du jour ===
The Fedora Daily Package is now being translated into French at Paquet
Fedora du jour[1], thanks to the efforts of Jean-François Martin
(Lokthare).
[1] http://blog.fedora-fr.org/paquet-fedora-du-jour/
=== ooo2txt - OpenOffice.org documents to Text ===
''Productive Mondays'' highlight a timesaving tool. This Monday[1] we
covered ooo2txt[2]:
"Sometimes it's desirable to deal with the contents of OpenOffice.org
text documents as plain text. The ooo2txt program makes this easy:
give it an .odt filename and it will send the text to standard output.
You can redirect the output to a file or pipe it into other tools
(such as grep or sed)."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/91-Productive-Mond...
[2] http://ooo2txt.fr.st/
=== Ardour - Digital Audio Workstation ===
''Artsy Tuesdays'' highlight a graphics, video, or sound application.
This Tuesday[1] Ardour[2] was featured:
"Ardour is a digital audio workstation with a long list of features.
You can use it as a multichannel hard disk recorder or a mixer with
unlimited busses, tracks, and plugins, and you can control it from
your keyboard/mouse or a MIDI Machine Control board."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/93-Artsy-Tuesday-A...
[2] http://ardour.org/
=== Menus ===
The ''Wednesday Why'' article[1] was on the Fedora desktop application menus:
"Fedora's application menus include many different programs from
different packages. Fedora supports multiple desktop environments,
including GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, and each of these has a different menu
structure, which may include or exclude certain proograms, such as the
control panels for each environment. Each menu title and menu entry
can be be presented in multiple languages. Furthermore, the menu
layout has changed between Fedora releases, even though some of the
packages have not changed. How does this all work?"
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/94-Wednesday-Why-M...
=== System-config-lvm - LVM GUI tool ===
''GUI Thursdays'' highlight a software that provides, enhances, or
effectively uses a GUI interface. This Thursday[1], system-config-lvm[2] was
discussed:
"System-config-lvm provides a graphical interface to the LVM tools
(and related utilities, including fsck and resize2fs) which is good
for non-emergency storage administration."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/92-GUI-Thursday-Sy...
[2] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Gu...
=== Stellarium - Software planetarium ===
''Friday Fun'' highlights fun, interesting, and amusing programs. This
Friday[1], we took a look Stellarium[2]:
"Stellarium provides an amazing, interactive planetarium experience on
your Fedora system. Combining a catalog of more than 100,000 stars
with landscape imagery, atmospheric effects, a lot of math, and
OpenGL, Stellarium renders the sky in real time, with sufficient
quality that it is used in some planetariums."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/95-Friday-Fun-Stel...
[2] http://stellarium.org/
== Advisories and Updates ==
In this section, we cover Secuirity Advisories and Package Updates
from fedora-package-announce.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora 7 Security Advisories ===
* [SECURITY] flac123-0.0.11-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-1045
* [SECURITY] gimp-2.2.16-2.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-1044
* [SECURITY] phpPgAdmin-4.1.3-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-1013
* [SECURITY] wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0982
=== Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories ===
* [SECURITY] httpd-2.2.4-2.1.fc6 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-615
* [SECURITY] wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc6 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-628
== Events and Meetings ==
In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from
various projects.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-07-10 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-July/msg00004....
=== Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD ===
* Not Reported
=== Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-07-12 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00774.html
=== Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-11 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00087.html
=== Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-MM-DD ===
* Not Reported
=== Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-10 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00127.html
=== Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-09 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00530.html
=== Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-10 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-July/msg00033.html
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16 years, 10 months
Fedora Weekly News Issue 95
by Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 95 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 95[1] for the week of July 1st
through July 7th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2]
and RSS Feed can be found here[3].
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue95
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue
[3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed
1. Announcements
1. New Infrastructure Ticketing System
2. Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election
3. Fedora Core 5 Retirement (EOL)
2. Planet Fedora
1. Red Hat High
2. Fedora Free Media Program
3. The Tone of Fedora
3. Marketing
1. Fedora 7 Review - Technetra
2. Fedora 7 Review - Shift Backspace
3. Fedora 7 Review - PC Advisor
4. Developments
1. Like This Content?
5. Documentation
1. Fedora Documentation Project Steering Committee Elections
2. Mailing List Owners
3. Translation Quickstart Guide
4. Samba Plus LDAP Tutorial
6. Translation
1. Translations, Damned Lies and Transifex
2. Fedora Translation Project Mailing List
7. Infrastructure
1. fedorapeople.org
2. Using Trac for Task Requests and Management
3. Infra Chooses Git for Self
8. Artwork
1. Sound Theme?
2. Round 1 Deadline Approaching
3. Theme Proposals
4. Stickers
9. Security Week
1. Why an ATM PIN Has Four Digits
2. Vulnerability for sale
10. Daily Package
1. Nedit - Programmer's notepad editor
2. Optipng - PNG Optimizer
3. The login prompt
4. gTweakUI - Tweak the GNOME User Interface
5. Friday Fun: Ball: Buster - Breakthrough game
11. Advisories and Updates
1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories
2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories
12. Events and Meetings
1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD
2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD
3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD
4. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-05
5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-05
6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-03
7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-02
8. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-03
13. Feedback
== Announcements ==
In this section, we cover announcements from various projects.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== New Infrastructure Ticketing System ===
MikeMcGrath announces in fedora-devel-announce[1],
"The Infrastructure Team has decided to change ticketing systems. The
new system is available at [2]. We'll be continuing to set that site
up but tickets can now be filed there. The previous ticketing system
at [3] turned out to be a bit to heavy for our teams needs. Using a
Trac system feels more natural to us and we suspect it will feel more
natural to the community as well."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-July/msg00003....
[2] https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/report
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/
=== Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election ===
MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"I would like to remind everyone to vote in the Fedora Board
elections[2], which are currently ongoing..."
"The Fedora Board's membership changes on a rotating basis. This
election is for 3 of the 9 Fedora Board seats. The Fedora Board is the
Fedora Project's "executive committee" and is ultimately accountable
for everything that happens within Fedora, and delegates
responsibillity to various sub-projects accordingly"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00002.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections
=== Fedora Core 5 Retirement (EOL) ===
WarrenTogami announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"As of Monday, July 2nd 2007, Fedora Core 5 has gone into retirement.
No further updates will be issued for FC5 or FE5 as we refocus our
developer attention to development of F8 and maintenance of our most
recent stable Fedora 7."
"By the current Fedora 8 development schedule[2], the supported
lifetime of FC6 is to continue to a minimum of early December 2007."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00001.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule
== Planet Fedora ==
In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet
Contributing Writers: ThomasChung, KarstenWade
=== Red Hat High ===
MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1]
"Red Hat High[2] is a week-long summer camp for rising 8th and 9th
graders. This is the second year that Red Hat has done the program.
Last year my contribution was giving a talk about the collaborative
power of wikis to the campers. This year, GregDeKoenigsberg is the
primary organizer of Red Hat High, and I'm spending most of my day
today reverting to my QA roots and helping out by testing the Red Hat
High LiveCD (based on Fedora 7 with some software from the Planet
CCRMA repos) in the various computer labs on NCSU's campus that will
be home to the different tracks."
[1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/22916.html
[2] http://www.redhat.com/redhathigh/
=== Fedora Free Media Program ===
MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1]
"Some of you, I'm sure, are quite familiar with the Fedora Free Media
Program[2]. For those of you who aren't, it's our community-run
distribution engine. Fedora only produces enough DVDs and CDs to ship
mass quantities out to various events or groups that need them in
quantities of several hundred each. We simply don't have the people
power to ship out media on a one-off basis. That's where the Free
Media program comes in -- they harness volunteers who are willing to
burn any number of Fedora discs and mail them out all over the world.
Each month, they do about 100. We'd love to increase the capacity, but
that requires more volunteers."
[1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/22319.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia
=== The Tone of Fedora ===
On a somber note, ThorstenLeemhuis had some thoughts[1] on the
evolution of the Fedora community:
"I started to contribute to Fedora(.us) years ago; Fedora has grown a
lot since then -- especially now with the merge we are lot more people
that have to interact with each other.
What really disappoints me about that: the tone on the mailing lists
afaics got and constantly gets worse and unfriendlier. Sure, there
were flamewars in the past (and I were part of them as well), but
people showed more respect to each other.
I'm not sure if I would start contributing to Fedora today if I would
be searching for a project to contribute to."
[1] http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/07/evolution-or-growth-of-fedora.html
== Marketing ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora 7 Review - Technetra ===
ThomasChung reports in in fedora-marketing-list[1],
"As their "Flying High" theme promises, Fedora 7 is indeed a great
plane to fly. It is a first class distro that demonstrates solid
progress in improving the user experience, easing the move to
virtualization and enabling the user to create their own flying
machine through custom build tools. So grab your flight gear and take
Fedora 7 for a spin. See you onboard![2]"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00010....
[2] http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/01/review-fedora-7
=== Fedora 7 Review - Shift Backspace ===
RahulSundaram reports in fedora-marketing-list[1],
"After writing this entire review while using Fedora 7, I feel much
better about it. I am thoroughly impressed by the offering supported
in part by Red Hat and the community involved. Unfortunately, the
choice to use only non-proprietary software makes this distribution
more difficult to use "out-of-the-box". However, I whole-heartedly
commend the Fedora team on ensuring that every aspect involved is
within the free and open-source boundaries and any user who wants
additional functions can easily get them using the yum installer.[2]"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00007....
[2] http://shiftbackspace.com/2007/06/10/fedora-7-a-review/
=== Fedora 7 Review - PC Advisor ===
RahulSundaram reports in fedora-marketing-list[1],
"Like everything else, this arrangement is a result of Fedora's focus:
Fedora is very Free Software-centric - far more so than Ubuntu, which
ships with some proprietary components (including 3D graphics drivers)
that Fedora steadfastly eschews on principle.[2]"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00003....
[2] http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=1003&pn=1
== Developments ==
In this section, we cover the problems/solutions,
people/personalities, and ups/downs of the endless discussions on
Fedora Developments.
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
=== Like This Content? ===
FWN is sorry we are falling short on coverage for this important area
of the Fedora Project. Unfortunately, the regular writer is on
vacation, and we do not have enough resources to cover.
In the future, watch this area for more information on how you can
help cover the happenings with Fedora development. If you are
interested in contributing regularly, visit this page to learn how:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
== Documentation ==
In this section, we cover the Fedora Documentation Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts
=== Fedora Documentation Project Steering Committee Elections ===
Planning has begun for the next FDSCo election, specifically which
date to hold the election on[1]. The plan is for nominations to take
place between 20th July to 2nd August, and voting to take place
between 3rd August and 13th August, including two weekends.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00004.html
=== Mailing List Owners ===
KarstenWade informs the list that he has made all FDSCo members admins
for the fedora-docs-list and fedora-docs-commits mailing lists[1].
Hopefully this will reduce the work load on individuals, by spreading
spam management between a number of people.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00006.html
=== Translation Quickstart Guide ===
The translation quickstart guide is set to be updated, in line with
the ongoing efforts of the L10N team to make contribution easier for
new and existing translators[1]. If you have any thoughts on how this
guide can be improved, add your thoughts to the appropriate wiki
page[2].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00007.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/TQSG
=== Samba Plus LDAP Tutorial ===
Deependra Singh Shekhawat wrote to the docs-list to inform readers
that he has begun work on updating a tutorial on the use of Samba plus
LDAP on Fedora 7[1]. While the guide is still a work in progress, it
has a lot of useful information and is set to be ported to DocBook XML
in the DocsProject's CVS repository. This will help to make the
information accessible to a lot more people, allowing easier
translation.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00012.html
== Translation ==
This section, we cover the news surrounding the Fedora Translation
(L10n) Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
(The regular contributor JasonMatthewTaylor is not available for this
week. ThomasChung is covering for him.)
=== Translations, Damned Lies and Transifex ===
DimitrisGlezos reports in gnome-i18n[1],
"For a while now, along with contributing to the Greek GNOME team, I've been
working on Fedora's L10n infrastructure. We're moving it from RH to Fedora
systems, so some work was needed to be done."
"Firstly, we needed a new web frontend for statistics. Damned Lies (DL), and the
whole GNOME i18n infrastructure[2] rocks, so it was a no-brainer to
base off these
approaches. We quickly got a system up and running using DL[3]."
[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2007-July/msg00003.html
[2] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/
[3] http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
=== Fedora Translation Project Mailing List ===
DimitrisGlezos reports in fedora-trans-list[1],
"So for 1. there's an idea to create a fedora-trans-announce list, which will be
moderated and kept only for interesting announcements. *Every* translator will
be requested to be subscribed to this list."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-July/msg00019.html
== Infrastructure ==
In this section, we cover the Fedora Infrastructure Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure
Contributing Writer: KarstenWade
(The regular contributor JasonMatthewTaylor is not available for this
week. KarstenWade is covering for him.)
=== fedorapeople.org ===
SethVidal reports[1] that the new Fedora community lightweight web
hosting is nearing completion. A discussion ensued about what not to
have on the server, to keep it secure and focused on a simple job --
receiving files via rsync, scp, and sftp, and delivering those files
via HTTP. JesseKeating provided[2] a different viewpoint, that
providing too limited of a solution is no fun for anyone; at the
minimum, he suggests support for git:// access. SethVidal replied
with some clarification, pointing out his understanding that http://
provided all the access git and hg need.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00...
[2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00...
[3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00...
=== Using Trac for Task Requests and Management ===
After continued evaluation, MikeMcGrath announced[1] that the
Infrastructure team had switched to using an instance of Trac for
systems administration task requests and tracking. This function is
also commonly called a ''ticket system'', a role previously filled by
OTRS.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00...
=== Infra Chooses Git for Self ===
After several rounds of deliberations and an eventual vote[1],
MikeMcGrath mentioned[2] that the Infrastructure team had chosen to use
git as the SCM for their own source control needs. As was repeated
throughout the thread, this discussion has nothing to do with
project-wide SCM changes, and pertains only to code maintained by the
Infrastructure team for it's own missions.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00...
[2] http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/6018.html
== Artwork ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts
=== Sound Theme? ===
DanielGeiger sent a message to the art-list proposing a number of
ideas for Fedora 8 and 9 themes, including better integration between
Firefox and OpenOffice with GTK+, and also a sound theme for
Fedora[1]. The discussion reached agreement that it would not be
necessary for a sound theme to have a lot of electronic effects, but
could be purely instrumental, potentially lowering the barrier for
entry to anyone considering helping with the project[2]. It was,
however, eventually decided that the best place for this discussion is
on the fedora-music-list[3].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00010.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00022.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00025.html
=== Round 1 Deadline Approaching ===
MáirínDuffy contacted the list to remind everyone that the deadline
for submitting theme ideas for consideration in the first round of
competition is quickly approaching[1]. The deadline is Wednesday 11th
July. If you have any proposals for Fedora 8 artwork, contacted the
art-list and create a wiki page[2].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00042.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes
=== Theme Proposals ===
JohnBaer contacted the list[1] with his idea for a theme based around
the idea of Feng Shui[2].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00030.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes/FengShui
MartinSourada informed the list[1] of his proposal for a GTK+ and
Metacity theme, Nodoka[2]. An RPM is available to install and try this
theme[3].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00038.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DanielGeiger/F8ThemeNodoka
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00049.html
=== Stickers ===
GeroldKassube contacted the list, inquiring about official Fedora
Project stickers[1], after discovering one for sale on a website. It
was concluded that this is likely a breach of the Fedora trademark
guidelines, and the website was contacted about this[2]. The post did,
however, raise the interesting question of whether there should be an
official Fedora Project sticker[3].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00058.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00059.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00060.html
== Security Week ==
In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.
Contributing Writer: JoshBressers
=== Why an ATM PIN Has Four Digits ===
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/07/why_an_atm_pin.html
Bruce Schneier has an interesting blog entry that explains why our ATM
PIN is four digits. A four digit password is laughable, but in the
same respect, so is writing your password down and sticking it to your
monitor. A big reason a four digit PIN works for an ATM is that you
also need the ATM card in order to use the PIN. That's known as two
factor authentication, what you know (PIN) and what you have (card).
Any group that wishes to keep their users secure will rely on a
multi-factor authentication system. It's a lot harder to steal my ATM
card and my PIN than it is to find just one of them. From a user
perspective it makes more sense to let them choose a crappy password
they can remember, then secure their crappy password with something
like a smart card or token.
=== Vulnerability for sale ===
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=128411&WT.svl=news1_1
Another vulnerability auction site has arisen. This isn't the first
site to attempt this and surely won't be the last. Most of these
sites are really just marketing scams that attract a great deal of
attention to the group conducting the auction. It's very possible
that these flaws are real, but it's far more likely they are extremely
lame flaws, or are just plain fakes. Even if these flaws prove to be
real, one of the significant advantages to open source software is the
speed that flaws can be fixed. There are few companies that can claim
to have a large group of well qualified people able to help develop a
fix for a flaw. Rather than fret over a site such as this, it makes
far more sense to just keep doing the things that make open source
great, and deal with bumps as they appear.
== Daily Package ==
In this section, we recap the packages that have been highlighted as a
Fedora Daily Package.
http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com
Contributing Writer: ChrisTyler
=== Nedit - Programmer's notepad editor ===
''Productive Mondays'' highlight a timesaving tool. This Monday[1] we
covered Nedit[2]:
"Nedit is a venerable programmer's editor. It uses the older
Motif/Lesstif toolkit, so it doesn't offer antialiased text, and the
Motif widgets (user interface controls) seem clunky at times. But it
offers a streamlined user interface with almost all of the window
dedicated to editing text, and it has a lot of features useful to
programmers..."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/83-Productive-Mond...
[2] http://nedit.org/
=== Optipng - PNG Optimizer ===
''Artsy Tuesdays'' highlight a graphics, video, or sound application.
This Tuesday[1] Optipng[2] was featured:
"Optipng is a command-line tool for optimizing PNG file sizes. The
screenshot shows a sample run which produced a 13% reduction in file
size, which is typical and can represent a significant savings in disk
(and backup) space as well as transfer requirements for online work if
repeated across a library of images. Considering how easy it is to run
the optipng, that's a pretty good return on your investment of time."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/84-Artsy-Tuesday-O...
[2] http://optipng.sourceforge.net/
=== The login prompt ===
The ''Wednesday Why'' article[1] was on the Fedora character-mode login prompt:
"Most Fedora users realize that there are two ways to locally log in
to a Fedora system: using a character-mode display, or through the
graphical user interface. ... The login prompt presented on the
character-mode screens is taken from the file /etc/issue. In some old
versions of Fedora the /etc/issue file was overwritten at each boot by
the startup scripts, but this is no longer the case."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/88-Wednesday-Why-T...
=== gTweakUI - Tweak the GNOME User Interface ===
''GUI Thursdays'' highlight a software that provides, enhances, or
effectively uses a GUI interface. This Thursday[1], gTweakUI[2] was
discussed:
"The gTweakUI package provides four tiny tools that enable additional
customization of the GNOME2 desktop. Once the package is installed,
your System > Preferences menu will have options to adjust the
behaviour of the GNOME menus, session manager, file manager
(Nautilus), and web browser (Galeon -- though most Fedora GNOME users
use Firefox)."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/87-GUI-Thursday-gT...
[2] http://gtweakui.sourceforge.net/
=== Friday Fun: Ball: Buster - Breakthrough game ===
''Friday Fun'' highlights fun, interesting, and amusing programs. This
Friday[1], our young reviewer r.k.ryale took a look at the game
Ball:Buster[2]:
"Ball: Buster is a game where the goal is to keep a ball bouncing off
a paddle while trying to hit coloured blocks of varying strength. By
varying strength, it means some blocks require numerous hits to make
them fall."
[1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/89-Friday-Fun-Ball...
[2] http://www.patrickavella.com/ballbuster.shtml
== Advisories and Updates ==
In this section, we cover Secuirity Advisories and Package Updates
from fedora-package-announce.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora 7 Security Advisories ===
* [SECURITY] dar-2.3.4-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0904
* [SECURITY] ekg-1.7-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0791
* [SECURITY] file-4.21-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0836
* [SECURITY] php-pear-Structures-DataGrid-DataSource-MDB2-0.1.10-1.fc7
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0847
* [SECURITY] quagga-0.99.7-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0838
* [SECURITY] wordpress-2.2.1-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0894
=== Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories ===
* [SECURITY] perl-Net-DNS-0.60-1.fc6 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-609
== Events and Meetings ==
In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from
various projects.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD ===
* No report in this week
=== Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD ===
* No report in this week
=== Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD ===
* No report in this week
=== Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-05 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00075.html
=== Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-05 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg0...
=== Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-03 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00043.html
=== Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-02 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00184.html
=== Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-03 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-July/msg00018.html
== Feedback ==
This document is maintained by the Fedora News Team[1]. Please feel
free to contact us to give your feedback. If you'd like to contribute
to a future issue of the Fedora Weekly News, please see the Join[2]
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16 years, 10 months
Fedora Weekly News Issue 94
by Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 94 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 94[1] for the week of June 24th
through July 1st, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2]
and RSS Feed can be found here[3].
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue94
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue
[3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed
1. Announcements
2. Fedora Board elections - Voting Open
1. Fedora 8's FUDCon Cancelled
3. Planet Fedora
1. Fedora Translation Project
2. Max Talks to the Children 2.0
3. Smolt passes the 50k mark
4. Creating Re-Spins with Revisor
4. Developments
1. Fedora Features Process
2. Changing the Default Syslog Package
5. Maintainers
1. A Mass Rebuild For Fedora 8
2. Package Name Change
6. Documentation
1. Status Update
7. Translation
1. More Bugzilla
2. Wiki Localization
8. Infrastructure
1. New Test Server
2. Streamlining Account Signups
9. Artwork
1. Fedora 8 Deadlines
2. Community Artwork
3. Nodoka Metacity Theme
4. Theme Proposals
10. Security Week
1. Red Hat Linux Gets Top Government Security Rating
2. Third-Party Severity Ratings
3. Fedora Security Response Team
11. Advisories and Updates
1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories
2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories
12. Events and Meetings
1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-06-26
2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD
3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-06-28
4. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) (Log) 2007-06-27
5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-06-28
6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-06-26
7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-06-25
8. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-06-26
13. Feedback
== Announcements ==
In this section, we cover announcements from various projects.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
== Fedora Board elections - Voting Open ==
MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"Voting is now open for the Fedora Board elections. As a reminder, we
are electing 3 of the 9 seats during this election."
"Voting will end at Jul 8 23:59:59 UTC Please go to [2]."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-June/msg00009.html
[2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/
=== Fedora 8's FUDCon Cancelled ===
MaxSpevack announces in fedora-devel-announce[1],
"Yesterday the Fedora Board made the decision not to hold an in-person
FUDCon for F8. Like you, I'm a disappointed, but I'm also excited for
us to try out an organized, weekend-long virtual hackfest (more
below)."
"The feature list for Fedora 8 is coming together very well, and we're
planning over the next few weeks how we can do a virtual hackfest for
F8. The idea is to pick some days, probably the same weekend (4, 5
August), and organize energy around people having an IRC-based
hackfest that weekend."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-June/msg00011....
== Planet Fedora ==
In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet
Contributing Writers: ThomasChung
=== Fedora Translation Project ===
FabianAffolter points out in his blog[1],
"The Fedora Translation Project has now a logo. If you want to help
translate applications, documentation, and websites check out this web
page for futher information. We are still looking for fellows for ther
german team (for the other teams of course, too)."
[1] http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2007/06/fedora-translation-project.html
[2] http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
=== Max Talks to the Children 2.0 ===
MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1]
"I spent 45 minutes the other day at Shodor Education Foundation[2].
They were having a career day, and they invited 4 people from
companies in the Raleigh/Durham area to talk to a group of kids. I
would say there were about 30 kids total, ranging from probably 7th
grade through early college-age, with most of them in the 8th-11th
grade group."
[1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/22033.html
[2] http://www.shodor.org/
=== Smolt passes the 50k mark ===
RolandWolters points out in his blog[1],
"Smolt[2], Fedora's tool of choice to collect information about uses
hardware, showed once again that it has a healthy growth: in the night
from Thursday to Friday last week the 50k-users line was crossed."
[1] http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/smolt-passes-the-50k-mark-and-en...
[2] http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/
=== Creating Re-Spins with Revisor ===
JeroenVanMeeuwen points out in his blog[1]
"Creating re-spins has never been this easy. Of course we had pungi
and livecd-tools to which we had added this GUI thing in Revisor[2],
but since I've re-enabled the CLI mode in Revisor, re-spins go even
easier and quicker by just copying these lines..."
[1] http://kanarip.blogspot.com/2007/06/creating-re-spins-with-revisor.html
[2] http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/
== Developments ==
In this section, we cover the problems/solutions,
people/personalities, and ups/downs of the endless discussions on
Fedora Developments.
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
Contributing Writer: KarstenWade
(This week's Developments section is being covered by KarstenWade
while OisinFeeley is on vacation.)
=== Fedora Features Process ===
For the first time, Fedora is working on a feature tracking
process. JohnPoelstra presented an initial proposal[1], which did not
get much on-list discussion. ChristopherAillon wondered[2] what exactly
a feature is, but his major point was around feature-driven versus
time-driven release scheduling. His concern was that tracking
features in this fashion is orthogonal to the Fedora time-driven
release schedule. JeremyKatz[3] replied with a list of reasons to
track featurs in a time-driven schedule.
1. You have an idea of things that people are working on. This can
help in getting feedback or suggestions that could improve it;
1. You get people interested in it. And perhaps even helping out;
1. You get some idea of areas that are going to need testing so that
testers can build up experience and knowledge about the area;
1. You generate some excitement around what's being worked on."
This list was identified in the discussion on this topic during the
FESCo meeting[4] as being essential to understanding the reason for
the new process. The result from that meeting[5] was to have John
work on the next version of the draft based on the in-meeting
discussion.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02382.html
[2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02567.html
[3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02587.html
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20070628
[5] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00025.html
=== Changing the Default Syslog Package ===
In response to an apparently dead upstream for sysklogd, SteveGrubb
proposed[1] a change to the default syslog package. The reason is to
gain an active upstream that has, or is working on, features that are
generally desired. Steve's team reviewed a number of choices and
settled on rsyslog, a fork of the current default daemon with many new
features[2]. JasonLTibbets wondered[3] what happened to syslog-ng as
the choice for a syslog replacement in Fedora. Steve's reply[4]
mentioned licensing concerns and compatibility issues; one advantage
he sees for rsyslog is backwards compatibility so no changes to
existing installations should be needed.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02375.html
[2] http://www.rsyslog.com/module-Static_Docs-view-f-features.html.phtml
[3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02381.html
[4] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02385.html
NicolasMailhot expressed the view that syslog_ng's log format is much
nicer to look at, compared to traditional syslog format. He was also
sure that people who are not running default configurations would not
have any issues with syslog-ng's format. JeremyKatz asked for
specific use cases that switching supports, and he pointed Steve at
the release feature template in order to fill out a full feature
description for the wiki.
[5] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02401.html
[6] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02383.html
== Maintainers ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Maintainers, the group of people who
maintain the software packages in Fedora.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers
Contributing Writer: MichaelLarabel
=== A Mass Rebuild For Fedora 8 ===
RahulSundaram asked on the fedora-maintainers-list[1] whether there
will be a mass package rebuild for Fedora 8 or if it was already done.
JesseKeating replied that the rebuild should be coordinated with the
glibc, gcc, and tools packagers, while David Woodhouse added that any
new secondary architectures (Alpha or SPARC) should be merged before
the rebuild as well.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-June/msg00763.html
=== Package Name Change ===
QuentinSpencer asked the Fedora Maintainers[1] what to do when a
package name changes. JasonTibbitts responded with a link to the
Fedora Project Wiki[2] that details the Fedora CVS Admin Procedure for
handling package changes.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-June/msg00806.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure
== Documentation ==
In this section, we cover the Fedora Documentation Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts
=== Status Update ===
The FDSCo meeting was canceled this week, for a number of reasons[1],
and in lieu of this KarstenWade posted a status update of various
DocsProject activities to the docs-list[2]. He points out that the
task of porting content from the Software Management Guide to the User
Guide and Administration Guide is now complete, and the focus is now
on getting the User Guide in shape for a new release. Also talked
about was the new publication system, which is being held up as we
wait for a new Plone release before deploying; the new translation
system which went live this week[3]; the project to create a web
interface to reading and editing man/info pages is also making
progress[4].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-June/msg00173.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-June/msg00180.html
[3] http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/VillePekkaVainio
== Translation ==
This section, we cover the news surrounding the Fedora Translation
(L10n) Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
Contributing Writer: JasonMatthewTaylor
=== More Bugzilla ===
DimitrisGlezos[1] had more this week on fine tuning Bugzilla for the
Translation team. Specifically concerning bug reports and which
mailing lists they are sent to.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-June/msg00163.html
=== Wiki Localization ===
SamuelBizien[1] has started some discussion about how to localize the
wiki pages for various browser locales. With the international nature
of Fedora it would be a nice feature to have. The Infrastructure team
has also been involved[2], and we look forward to seeing what they
come up with.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-June/msg00178.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-June/msg0...
== Infrastructure ==
In this section, we cover the Fedora Infrastructure Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure
Contributing Writer: JasonMatthewTaylor
=== New Test Server ===
MikeMcGrath, working feverishly as always, got a new test server,
publictest1.fedora.redhat.com, up and running this week[1]. A public
test group[2] has also been added.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-June/msg0...
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-June/msg0...
=== Streamlining Account Signups ===
RayVanDolson had this[1] post about observations of the current
account creation and CLA procedure. The various teams are aware that
this process is slightly archaic and a new process which is much more
intuitive has been designed and will be implemented shortly[2].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-June/msg0...
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-June/msg0...
== Artwork ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts
=== Fedora 8 Deadlines ===
NicuBuculei writes to the art-list to remind everyone that, due to the
short release schedule of Fedora 8, the deadline for the first round
of theme submissions is fast approaching[1]. He also points out that
the first round of submissions are just concept ideas, so polish is
not required[2]. Seeing this post, MairinDuffy updated the schedule
and slipped the date for this deadline to the 11th July[3].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-June/msg00211.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-June/msg00241.html
=== Community Artwork ===
In response to questions about whether the art work will end up being
created by Red Hat, as in the previous release schedule[1], it was
pointed out that Red Hat no longer has an employee focused on Desktop
Artwork, and so the artwork for Fedora 8 will be down to the Art
team[2].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-June/msg00216.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-June/msg00220.html
=== Nodoka Metacity Theme ===
MartinSourada, who has been developing the Nodoka metacity theme in
correspondence with the art-list, has posted the 0.2 release of his
metacity theme[1]. Testers will be appreciated and feedback welcome.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-June/msg00232.html
=== Theme Proposals ===
MairinDuffy sent a theme proposal to the list[1], entitled Fedora
Infinity. MolaPahnadayan also sent a message to the list linking to
two backgrounds he'd created[2], along with a theme proposal for
Fedora 8[3].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-June/msg00242.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-June/msg00246.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-June/msg00252.html
== Security Week ==
In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.
Contributing Writer: JoshBressers
=== Red Hat Linux Gets Top Government Security Rating ===
* http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132978-c,redhat/article.html
The news of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 attaining EAL4 + LSPP is
important to the entire Linux community. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
now holds the highest possible government security rating that can be
acquired by an off-the-shelf operating system. A great deal of work
has gone into this certification, but it speaks volumes about the
maturity of Linux. It is unlikely that any other operating system in
history has progressed so quickly in so many directions. No doubt this
is a great example of how impressive the open source development model
can be.
This particular certification is due to the progress made with
SELinux. SELinux is still a relatively young addition to the Linux
kernel. No doubt great things will be accomplished with SELinux in
the future.
=== Third-Party Severity Ratings ===
* http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/06/27/third-party-severity-ratings/
The above story compares how Red Hat rated the severity of a number of
security flaws compared to how The National Vulnerability Database
(NVD) rated the same flaws. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux ratings are
comparable to how the same flaws are rated for Fedora. The one
sentence summary is that the way Red Hat rates flaws and the way NVD
rates flaws is different. The analysis in the article does a nice job
of explaining why this likely is.
=== Fedora Security Response Team ===
The Fedora Security Response Team is still moving along. Things
aren't moving terribly fast, but they are moving. The team is still
primarily slogging through the list of old CVE ids to ensure that
we've not missed anything in Fedora 7. I hope to use this article to
keep the community in general up to date on the progress of security
issues in Fedora.
== Advisories and Updates ==
In this section, we cover Secuirity Advisories and Package Updates
from fedora-package-announce.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora 7 Security Advisories ===
* [SECURITY] c-ares-1.4.0-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0724
* [SECURITY] firestarter-1.0.3-16.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0700
* [SECURITY] gimp-2.2.15-3.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0725
* [SECURITY] HelixPlayer-1.0.7-6.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0756
* [SECURITY] httpd-2.2.4-4.1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0704
* [SECURITY] krb5-1.6.1-2.1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0740
* [SECURITY] perl-Net-DNS-0.60-1.fc7 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0668
=== Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories ===
* [SECURITY] evolution-data-server-1.8.3-7.fc6 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-594
* [SECURITY] gimp-2.2.15-3.fc6 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-619
* [SECURITY] kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-600
* [SECURITY] krb5-1.5-21.1 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-621
* [SECURITY] libexif-0.6.15-2.fc6 -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-614
== Events and Meetings ==
In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from
various projects.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-06-26 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-June/msg00152....
=== Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD ===
* No report
=== Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-06-28 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00025.html
=== Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting (EPEL) (log)
2007-06-27 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week26
=== Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-06-28 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-June/msg0...
=== Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-06-26 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-June/msg00790.html
=== Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-06-25 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02589.html
=== Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-06-26 ===
* https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-June/msg00192.html
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by Karsten Wade
Forgot to finish and send this; all edits are final. I highlighted a
few items for the Developments beat, but it's weak. Maybe better next
time? :)
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