No Ambassadors beat this week
by Larry Cafiero
Hi, Pascal --
I thought there was an event report this week, but I can't seem to find it.
Therefore, no Ambassadors report this week (at least from me).
Has anyone approached you about taking over the beat?
Larry Cafiero
13 years, 10 months
Fedora Weekly News 233
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 233
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 Fedora Board IRC Meeting 1800 UTC 2010-07-02
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Outage: PHX2 outage - 2010-07-05 01:00 UTC
* 1.1.2.1.1 Reason for outage:
* 1.1.2.1.2 Affected Services:
* 1.1.2.1.3 Unaffected Services:
# 1.1.2.2 Fedora 14 Feature Submission Deadline is One Week Away (2010-07-13)
# 1.1.2.3 Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read
* 1.1.2.3.1 FAQ
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 2010)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Fedora In the News
+ 1.2.1 Fedora Gets New Leader (PC World)
o 1.3 QualityAssurance
+ 1.3.1 Proven testers
+ 1.3.2 AutoQA
+ 1.3.3 Triage metrics
+ 1.3.4 Request for old DeltaISOs
+ 1.3.5 VERIFIED Bugzilla status
o 1.4 Translation
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Schedule
+ 1.4.2 Translation File Archives Now Available
+ 1.4.3 New Wiki Translation Policy
+ 1.4.4 Links for Untranslated Fedora Documents
+ 1.4.5 New Members in FLP
o 1.5 Artwork
+ 1.5.1 Custom GTK+ Theme
+ 1.5.2 Better Hackergotchis
+ 1.5.3 Fedora Branding Fonts
+ 1.5.4 Fedora 14 Concept Decision
o 1.6 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 233 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 233[1] for the week ending July 7, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
Issue 232 begins with announcements from the Fedora Project, including notice of this past week's Fedora Board IRC meeting, details of a PHX2 outage on 7/5/2010 and changes on Red Hat's Licensing Guidelines, as well as a listing of Fedora Events globally. Fedora In the News brings one new story in PC World on Jared Smith' appointment as Fedora Project Leader. Quality Assurance is up next, with details on the Proven Testers project that they have been working on recently, updates on AutoQA work, triage metrics amongst other activity. In Translation news, an update on the Fedora 14 schedule for translation related work, a new wiki translation policy and more. In Artwork/Design Team news, details on a custom GTK+ theme, better hackergotchis, Fedora branding fonts, and decisions on Fedora 14 graphic concept. This week's issue wraps up with security-related packages for Fedora 12 and 13 from the past week. Enjoy FWN 233!
The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue232
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcement News ---
---- Fedora Board IRC Meeting 1800 UTC 2010-07-02 ----
Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1]:
"The Board is holding a public IRC meeting on Friday, July 2, 2010 at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following:
* Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation.
* Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post
questions. This channel is read/write for everyone.
This meeting will last approximately 60 minutes. The Board has reserved some time at the top of the hour to cover agenda items as appropriate. Following that we'll take questions from the community.
The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. We look forwardto seeing you at the meeting!"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-July/002835.html
--- Fedora Development News ---
---- Outage: PHX2 outage - 2010-07-05 01:00 UTC ----
Mike McGrath announced[1]:
"There is an ongoing outage at this time in PHX2. The exact start time is not yet known and the ETA to be fixed is not yet known.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run:
date -d '2010-07-05 01:00'
----- Reason for outage: -----
Several people are experiencing issues connecting to various Fedora services (see below). The cause for these issues seems to be network related and it is impacting different people differently. Some see packet loss, other see complete connectivity loss and other still aren't having any issues at all.
Some services listed as unaffected would have been impacted previously to this announcement but as we became aware of the issue have made some changes to bring those services back online. Those services include bodhi, the account system, pkgdb, main website/wiki, community and mirrormanager.
----- Affected Services: -----
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ CVS / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Email system
----- Unaffected Services: -----
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Ticket Link[3]
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-July/000629....
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2255
---- Fedora 14 Feature Submission Deadline is One Week Away (2010-07-13) ----
John Poelstra reminded[1] the community of the upcoming Fedora 14 feature submission deadline:
"This email serves as the last reminder for the Fedora 14 Feature Submission Deadline--Tuesday, July 13, 2010. After this date newly submitted features will be targeted for Fedora 15 unless an exception is granted by FESCo.
Accepted Fedora 14 features so far[2]
If you are a current feature page owner, thank you for submitting your feature for Fedora 14 and contributing to the next release of Fedora. If you haven't updated your feature page in the last month it would be a great help to every one if you would do so now.
As we start to reach deadlines and test releases for Fedora 14, more and more people will query the feature pages. We'd love to know that what they find is current and correct.
Thank you, John
More information:
Fedora 14 Schedule[3]
Fedora Feature Process[4]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-July/000630....
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy
---- Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read ----
Tom "spot" Callaway announced[1] a revised Red Hat licensing guidelines:
"Hello Fedora!
Please take a moment and read this email. There's cake in it for you.
Upon the advice of Red Hat Legal, we have slightly amended the Fedora Licensing Guidelines[2]. The following section has been added:
Subpackage Licensing
If a subpackage is dependent (either implicitly or explicitly) upon a
base package (where a base package is defined as a resulting binary
package from the same source RPM which contains the appropriate
license texts as %doc), it is not necessary for that subpackage to
also include those license texts as %doc.
However, if a subpackage is independent of any base package (it does
not require it, either implicitly or explicitly), it must include
copies of any license texts (as present in the source) which are
applicable to the files contained within the subpackage.
Basically, what this means is this: If you maintain a package, and that package generates subpackages, then each subpackage must either include a copy of the appropriate licensing texts (as available in the source), or it must Require (either implicitly or explicitly) another subpackage which does include the appropriate licensing texts.
Unfortunately, there is no good way for us to determine which packages are out of compliance with this new guideline and will need to be fixed. (If http://rpm.org/ticket/116 was ever implemented, it would be possible...) However, we can identify packages which are likely candidates to be affected by this change. Thanks to Seth Vidal, I was able to generate a list of packages and subpackages, sorted by maintainer. The list was generated by querying rawhide for a list of source packages where:
* At least one subpackage was generated that did not have an exact name match to the source package name AND
* That subpackage did not depend on any other source packages.
Maintainers should look at the bottom of this email for the list.
-- FAQ
Q. Why are we doing this? A. The intent is to ensure that the appropriate license texts (as available in the source) are installed on the running system for all binary packages.
Q. Should I add explicit Requires: to another subpackage for the sole reason of complying with this new guideline? A. No. You should not add Requires simply for this licensing requirement. Instead, you should include duplicate copies of the relevant license texts (as available in the source).
Q. I thought duplicating files in a spec was forbidden? A. This is a permitted exception to that.
Q. You keep saying "as available in the source", what does that mean? A. It means you do not need to manually add license texts if they are not included by the upstream in the source tarball. However, if they are missing, you should ask upstream to add them.
Q. My package generates a -docs (or -javadocs) subpackage, which doesn't depend on any of the other subpackages, but the docs are under a different license from the code in the other subpackage(s), what should I do? A. You should make sure that the -docs/-javadocs subpackage has the correct License: tag, matching the files included, and be sure that the appropriate license texts are included as %doc in the -docs/-javadocs.
Q. My package generates a foo and foo-libs package. foo has the license files, and foo depends on foo-libs, but foo-libs doesn't have any license files in it. What should I do? A. You have two options here. You can either move the license texts from foo to foo-libs or duplicate the license texts in both packages. Moving the license texts is an acceptable option in this case because it ensures that if foo-libs is installed, the license texts are present, and if foo is installed, it will pull in foo-libs, thus, the license texts are present.
Q. What is the capital of the Republic of Ghana? A. Accra.
Q. What happens if I don't do this? A. Well, eventually, I'll go through and make the change myself. You will also suffer a horrible horrible curse.
Q. Do I need to make this change in stable branches? A. No, but you can if you want to. Rawhide is the only place that is a MUST fix.
Q. Do I need to push an update for this change? A. No, please don't. If you're already working on an update for other reasons and you want to do this (say, to keep the spec in sync with rawhide), you can.
Q. Do I need to build (not just commit) this change in rawhide? A. Please do. Don't forget to bump the release and add a changelog entry.
Q. Why can't we just have a "fedora-licenses" package which has copies of all the licenses in Fedora and just always install it? A. Maintaining that package would be a huge pain. We have a LOT of licenses in Fedora and they change all the time, often without notice. However, if you'd like to write some code to help us minimize duplicate license files on the filesystem with a "common-licenses" package, then you should look at<re>http://rpm.org/ticket/116</ref>. Have I mentioned that I'd like that functionality added to rpm?
Q. Why don't you add that functionality to rpm? A. Everytime I look at the rpm source code, blood starts dripping from my eyes, and it scares my newborn son, Jimmy. It also makes it hard to see the code.
Q. Some of the packages on your list don't need any changes to meet this guideline, what should I do? A. I'm sure there are some false positives here. Heck, _most_ of my packages which were flagged by this script did not need any changes, but some of them did. The only way to be sure was to have an informed human check. Just let me know that you checked them and they're okay. Please do this by sending me email, either by replying to this email on the list or emailing me directly. Telling me via IRC/AIM/Twitter/Facebook/Identi.ca/LinkedIn/MySpace/ICQ/CarrierPigeon just means I will forget about it.
Q. Hey, one of my packages didn't end up on your list, but it needed to be fixed to meet this guideline, why wasn't it on the list? A. There are plenty of other situations that we couldn't account for where a package would need to be changed to meet this guideline. If you think about it for a while, I'm sure you can come up with some. The case that Seth scripted was simply the most common one I could think of.
Q. I fixed my packages! Now what? A. Please email me (either in reply to this email on the mailing list, or in private) and let me know which packages you fixed.
Q. What about the packages owned by "orphan"? A. Well, it sure would be nice if a provenpackager could check these packages and fix them as appropriate, then let me know (via email). Thats the sort of thing that makes me feel like buying you a drink the next time our paths cross. But hey, if no one does it, I'll get to it eventually.
Q. What about new packages? A. All packages from this moment onward must meet this requirement. New packages, old packages, red packages, blue packages.
Q. I have another question which you did not answer here? A. Ask me, I'll do my best to answer.
Q. I'm confused by all of this? A. Sorry. Let me know what you don't understand and I'll try to make it clearer.
Q. Why are you always making me do things? A. Because I can! No, really, this is one of those "things we should have been doing all along", so we need to just bite the bullet and get it done.
Q. Hey you promised me cake, I read all this way! Where is my cake? A.
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Okay. Here's the list of packages that I think might be affected by this. Reminder: You need to check these packages and fix any which need fixing, then email me and let me know which ones you checked/fixed. Thanks!
Ed.: please see the original posting[3] for the list of packages, as it is quite long.
~spot"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-July/000631....
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-July/000631....
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 2010) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_2
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_3
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_4
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
Continuing from the recent announcement of new Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, this past week saw one more story in the trade press on this. from PC World.
--- Fedora Gets New Leader (PC World) ---
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a brief posting about Jared Smith's appointment in PC World:
"The Fedora Project will be getting a new leader next month, as Jared Smith takes over the helm from current head Paul Frields, Frields announced[2] Tuesday on the Fedora mailing list.
Smith[3], who will become a Red Hat employee next month, has participated in the Fedora community since 2007, primarily devoting time to the project's infrastructure and documentation teams. He also helped build a free Voice Over IP-based audio conference system for Fedora developers, called Fedora Talk[4], and participated in Fedora-themed conferences."
The full post is available[5]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-July/013206.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002832.html
3. http://www.jaredsmith.net
4. http://talk.fedoraproject.org
5. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/200210/fedora_gets_new_lead...
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Proven testers ---
At the QA weekly meeting of 2010-06-28[1], John Dulaney offered to work on combining the two proven testers pages (concerning joining the proven testers, and how to conduct testing) into a single page and provide a draft to the list for review. John subsequently submitted[2] his draft[3]. Adam Miller liked it[4].
Meanwhile, Adam Williamson proposed[5] activating the proven testers group before Bodhi was changed to activate the requirement for proven tester feedback, as a way to make sure the process worked smoothly and get in some 'practice'. The response was generally positive. The proposal was, however, overtaken by events. Luke Macken announced the next day[6] that a new version of Bodhi had been put in place which enabled the proven tester feedback requirement, so Adam quickly announced[7] the activation of the proven testers group and asked members to start testing immediately.
He also promised to start the ball rolling on the mentoring process, and sent out a proposal[8] the next day for a rough plan for proven tester mentoring. He suggested existing proven testers take sponsorship requests, ask the applicants to read the appropriate instructions, and then confirm that they are familiar with enabling updates-testing and posting feedback on updates, before sponsoring them into the proven testers group. Jesse Keating suggested[9] asking applicants in general to take the initiative and start reading instructions and providing feedback, and link to some of their feedback on their application ticket, so their membership could be quickly approved as soon as a mentor got around to looking at the ticket. Adam thought[10] this was a good idea, but felt that in practice it should be possible to personally pick up every current mentor request very quickly, given the number of requests and the number of existing proven testers.
Bob Lightfoot wrote about his proven tester testing process[11], in case it was of use to others, or anyone could suggest improvements for him. Till Maas suggested a simplication[12].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100628
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091746.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jdulaney/Proven_Tester
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-July/091820.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091745.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-June/138008.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091781.html
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091793.html
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091794.html
10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091800.html
11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-July/091815.html
12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-July/091845.html
--- AutoQA ---
At the QA meeting, Will Woods reported that the AutoQA team was working on a helloworld test (a test test), which would exist to check that watchers and hooks - particularly the bodhi watcher and hook - work correctly. This is a prerequisite for the dependency check test, one of the major AutoQA priorities. Josef Skladanka said he had a test instance of the ResultsDB up and running on one of AutoQA's infrastructure machines, and had rewritten the initscripts and rpmlint tests to store their results in the database. He would continue to work on converting other tests. Kamil Paral announced that he had patched autoqa to use autotest labels correctly, which allows us to configure the actual running of tests in several ways - ensuring they are run on particular machine configurations. He pointed to a mailing list post[1] with a more detailed explanation.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-June/000742.html
--- Triage metrics ---
At the Bugzappers weekly meeting of 2010-06-29[1], Jeff Raber updated his progress with triage metrics. He had created a wiki page[2] to track his goals and progress, and had discussed some modifications to python-bugzilla with Will Woods. The group discussed the specific metrics Jeff was targeting, and made a few adjustments.
1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-06-29/bugzappers.201...
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Talk:Jraber
--- Request for old DeltaISOs ---
Andre Robatino asked[1] for anyone who had old DeltaISO files he had provided for various releases to seed the corresponding torrents so he could retrieve them, for the purpose of creating an archive of all previous DeltaISOs, making it easier to reconstruct particular test releases from the past whenever this might prove useful.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091775.html
--- VERIFIED Bugzilla status ---
Aaron Farnes proposed an update[1] to the bug workflow wiki page[2] regarding the VERIFIED state. James Laska reviewed and approved his changes, which were also discussed at the weekly meeting. Aaron made it clear that triagers and reporters should manually set the status when they checked that a pending update would resolve an issue, leaving the Bodhi update system or the maintainer to close the bug.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/91
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow#VERIFIED
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Fedora 14 Schedule ---
John Poelstra has updated the Fedora 14 schedule as per the changes suggested by Noriko Mizumoto[1]. Presently, translation and updation of the documentation in the earlier released branch is scheduled[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-July/007796.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-July/007798.html
--- Translation File Archives Now Available ---
The complete set of translation files for a language can now be downloaded as an archive from translate.fedoraproject.org[1][2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-July/007791.html
2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2135
--- New Wiki Translation Policy ---
After gathering feedback from the Translation team, the newly drafted wiki translation process has been established as a policy by Ian Weller[1]. Further, Tetsuya Morimoto suggested[2] that for new pages marked for translation, the English content be copied automatically over when a new page link is clicked.
The new policy has also been added in the Translation Quick Start Guide[3].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-June/007765.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-June/007772.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-June/007784.html
--- Links for Untranslated Fedora Documents ---
As a result of an earlier discussion[1], the publican source has been modified to include a feature to display the list of the untranslated documents for a particular language in the respective language page on docs.fedoraproject.org. Ruediger Landmann has rebuilt the Fedora Documentation site to reflect this new feature[2].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue228#Links_for_Untranslated_Books_M...
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-July/007797.html
--- New Members in FLP ---
?ukasz Jerna? (Polish)[1], Dirgita (Indonesian)[2] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-June/007769.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-June/007773.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Custom GTK+ Theme ---
Marcus Moeller shared[1] with the Design Team a custom GTK theme he is working on "I tried to make it look visually unique and eye friendly. It fits with the current GNOME icon set" about which Nelson Marques was very enthusiastic[2] "My personal position is that any brand (such as fedora) should have a strong visual identity, which eventually brings up the theming" and also pointed to Martin Sourada's work on theming Fedora with Nodoka[3]. Martin joined[4] the opinion about a visual identity "I also think Fedora should have its own visual identity" while Nicu Buculei remained bitter and skeptical[5] about such a possibility "In fact we go the other way, rejecting icon themes, GTK themes, notification themes or any other visual identity produced by the Design Team."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002702.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002703.html
3. http://fedorahosted.org/nodoka/
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002706.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002710.html
--- Better Hackergotchis ---
As an action item following the past week team IRC meeting, Jef van Schendel posted[1] the development for hackergotchi ribbons and also wrote[2] a blog post with a tutorial for using them. Also as an action point, Nicu Buculei wrote[3] a long blog post with good practices for hackergotchi creation, examples and instructions, intended to make Planet Fedora[4] a better looking place. Papadeas Pierros informed[5] about his work in identifying and improving bad images "After compiling the lists (the ugly and the missing) I will make an generic email for each list and send to all owners.. thus we will provide assistance, point to guidelines or simple clear up."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002716.html
2. http://jefsblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/introducing-hackergotchi-ribbons/
3. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-hackergotchis-for-everyone.html
4. http://planet.fedoraproject.org/
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002756.html
--- Fedora Branding Fonts ---
M?ir?n Duffy assembled[1] a wiki page[2] collecting info for the intended change in Fedora branding fonts for character coverage "MgOpen Modata doesn't support accent marks very well. For example, I (M?ir?n) can't write my own name in MgOpen Modata" and move to consistence. After the weekly IRC meeting she announced[3] the team's decision "At our team meeting today we decided to trial Comfortaa as the headline/titling font and Droid Sans as the body text font" which is going to be tested.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002726.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/Fedora_Branding_Fonts
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002775.html
--- Fedora 14 Concept Decision ---
With the deadline reached, at the weekly IRC meeting the Design Team decided on the graphic concept for Fedora 14[1], which was announced[2] by M?ir?n Duffy on the Design Team mailing list "I double- and triple-counted our votes today - each voter picked their top 3 concepts - and the winner is Kyle Baker's concept for Fedora 14 with 9 votes." The next step is turning this concept in an usable wallpaper image and including in into the Fedora 14 Alpha release to gather feedback.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Theme_Concepts
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-July/002772.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* avahi-0.6.25-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04382...
* mediawiki-1.15.4-54.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04380...
* mingw32-libtiff-3.9.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04376...
* gcc-4.4.4-10.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04372...
* cups-1.4.4-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04366...
* libtiff-3.9.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04366...
* libpng-1.2.44-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04363...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* mediawiki-1.15.4-54.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04385...
* mingw32-libtiff-3.9.4-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04383...
* avahi-0.6.25-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04380...
* mediawiki-1.15.3-53.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04379...
* libtool-2.2.6-18.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04378...
* gcc-4.4.4-10.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04378...
* rpm-4.7.2-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04374...
* libpng-1.2.44-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04373...
* python-2.6.2-8.fc12 -http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043726.html
* bugzilla-3.4.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04371...
* libtiff-3.9.4-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/04371...
-- end FWN 233 --
13 years, 10 months
Turning over the Ambassadors beat
by Larry Cafiero
Hey, all --
I'm finding that my schedule is filling up with life-related things -- none
of them bad, thankfully, but most (if not all) incredibly time-consuming --
so I'm going to have to turn over my Ambassador beat duties to someone else.
I have put up a notice on the Ambassadors mailing list as well as discussing
it on the #fedora-ambassadors IRC channel.
I'll continue on the beat until there's a replacement and I'll work with the
replacement to get him/her up to speed.
I'd like to continue, but as I mentioned before, time constraints are not
allowing me to do so.
Thanks.
Larry Cafiero
13 years, 10 months
Fedora Weekly News 232
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 232
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 Fedora 11 End of Life
# 1.1.1.2 Deadline for T-Shirt Registration FUDCon Zurich 2010
# 1.1.1.3 Passing the baton
# 1.1.1.4 FPL travel to LATAM events!
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Bodhi 0.7.5 release
# 1.1.2.2 Fedora 14 Feature Submission Deadline in Two Weeks
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 2010)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 Marketing
o 1.4 Fedora In the News
+ 1.4.1 New Fedora Project Leader appointed (The H Online)
+ 1.4.2 New project leader wears the Fedora (The Register UK)
+ 1.4.3 Red Hat names new Fedora Project Leader (Internetnews.com)
o 1.5 Ambassadors
+ 1.5.1 Fedora Release Party in Quebec
+ 1.5.2 Let us know about your Fedora 13 activities
o 1.6 QualityAssurance
+ 1.6.1 Test Day process improvements
+ 1.6.2 Proven testers
+ 1.6.3 New desktop release criteria
+ 1.6.4 Fedora 14 recommendations
o 1.7 Artwork
+ 1.7.1 Weekly Design Team IRC Meeting
+ 1.7.2 The Design Team Story
o 1.8 Security Advisories
+ 1.8.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.8.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
+ 1.8.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 232 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 232[1] for the week ending June 30,
2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
Issue 232 begins with announcements from the Fedora Project, including
notice of end of life for Fedora 11, details on the next Fedora Project
leader, Jared Smith, and a remainder on the upcoming Fedora 14 feature
submission deadline, amongst other news and upcoming events. From the
Planet Fedora, details on how to use Adobe Flash on 64-bit systems now
that packages have been pulled, analysis of the performance of Cairo
with a number of different graphics chipset and driver configurations,
and other posts. The Marketing team reports on their work on SWOT
analysis, a printable version of the Fedora 13 feature profiles, and a
new SOP for doing focus groups. Fedora In the News follows with coverage
from the trade press on this past week's announcement of the new Fedora
Project leader. In Ambassador news, a Fedora 13 event report from Quebec
City, Canada. FWN is also looking for a new writer to take over the
Ambassador beat, see below if you are interested! In Quality Assurance
news, details on Test Day process improvements, a move to the proven
testers instruction page, and updates on new Fedora 14 Trac tickets,
amongst other news. In news from the Artwork Team, coverage of the
weekly IRC team meeting, and a request for stories from the Design Team.
This week's issue wraps up with security-related packages from the past
week.
The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing
issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping
spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue232
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project,
including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and
Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcement News ---
---- Fedora 11 End of Life ----
Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1], "This announcement
is a reminder that as of 2010-06-25, Fedora 11 has reached its end of
life for updates. As planned, last update pushes to Fedora 11 were made
in advance[2] of this date. No further updates, including security
updates, will be available for Fedora 11.
Fedora 12 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month
after the release of Fedora 14. The maintenance schedule of Fedora
releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki[3]."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002830.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-June/137849.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Sche...
---- Deadline for T-Shirt Registration FUDCon Zurich 2010 ----
Joerg Simon announced[1]:
"Dear Fellows,
If you plan to attend the FUDCon EMEA in Zurich September 17 - 19, 2010
- and want to pick up a pretty FUDCon-Shirt - designed by Maria (tatica)
Leandro - do not forget to register it[2]
The Deadline for ordering a FUDCon-Shirt is 2010-June-30 12:00 UTC!!!
After this you can still register yourself for FUDCon but we can not
assure you a Shirt matching your Size."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002831.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010_Pre-registration
---- Passing the baton ----
Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1]:
"A leadership change is always momentous, and the Fedora Project is no
exception to this rule. I wanted to share some thoughts about being the
Fedora Project Leader, tell the community about the person who will be
taking over that role soon, and to let you know what to expect over the
next few weeks and months.
* * *
I joined the Fedora Project in 2003 so I could give something back to a
free software community from whose work I had benefited for a long time.
Fedora gave me the chance to bring my skills and experience and use them
to help people I'd never get a chance to meet personally. I had no
inkling at the time that one day I'd have the opportunity to serve the
community beyond helping write some documentation.
When Max Spevack called me in late 2007 to let me know he was
considering stepping down, and was interested in having me succeed him
as the Fedora Project Leader, I was surprised and humbled. It was a once
in a lifetime opportunity to both serve the community and to contribute
as an employee at Red Hat, where I had already made many friends while
working on Fedora -- an opportunity I was happy to take. Over the past
two and a half years, through many challenges and changes, not once have
I regretted that decision.
* * *
One of the hallmarks of Fedora leadership is that it's open to change.
The FPL is not a semi-benevolent dictator for life, but rather a
position to which new people can regularly bring their passion for
making Fedora better. And so, just as previous FPLs announced their
readiness to search for the next leader, I did so a few months ago, in
the spirit of openness and transparency that's a hallmark of the Fedora
community.
The FPL job is a salaried position at Red Hat, and the Fedora Board
members as well as many other stakeholders have been informed and
involved with the process of selecting a new FPL. The job posting
brought in numerous applicants from throughout the community. Through
the hiring process we identified a few best qualified candidates. From
them the next FPL was selected, based on the qualifications and
experience our entire community expects. At every juncture during that
process, the panels were focused on the needs of the Fedora Project, to
ensure the next FPL would be a good listener, speaker, and writer;
thoughtfully consider solutions to difficult problems; and most
importantly, lead effectively.
So it's with great pleasure that I announce Jared Smith will be joining
Red Hat in a few weeks as the new Fedora Project Leader.
* * *
Some of our community already knows Jared, but I want to take a moment
to tell everyone a little more about his background. He doesn't like to
trumpet his own qualifications, but since he happens to be away on
personal business this week, I'll just do that for him. :-)
Jared's been a long-time user of both Red Hat and Fedora, and an active
participant in the the Fedora community since 2007. He's primarily spent
his time working with the infrastructure and documentation teams. He's
helped with the development of Fedora Talk, our community VoIP telephony
system. Fedora Talk allows various Fedora developers and contributors to
communicate verbally for free across the internet.
Jared has also participated in community events such as various FUDCons
and Fedora Activity Days. In addition, he has assisted with toolchain
development, release materials, and steering duties as a member of the
Fedora Docs team.
Jared also brings a wealth of of both technical and community relations
expertise from his prior job history. His previous employer is Digium,
the commercial sponsor of the open source Asterisk software. While at
Digium, Jared worked as Community Relations Manager, as well as an
instructor, lecturer, and training department manager.
Before working for Digium, Jared was a Network Operations Manager for
the web analytics company Omniture (since acquired by Adobe Systems),
where he managed a network of over 6,500 Linux machines. These
experiences as a speaker, evangelist, practitioner, and collaborator
make Jared exceptionally well suited for the position of FPL.
On a more personal note, I've come to know Jared well over the past
several years. He cares deeply about community and family, not the least
part of which is the Fedora community and family. His honesty,
integrity, good humor, patience, intelligence, and good old-fashioned
common sense will serve him and our growing community well, as we try to
take Fedora to the next level.
* * *
Although Jared is away on personal travel right now, Max and I have
already started including him in some important conversations, and the
community can expect additional exciting news shortly. Over the next few
months, part of my changing responsibilities in Red Hat will be to
ensure a smooth runway for Jared, as he takes over the duties of the FPL
job. Max Spevack will also continue to assist, especially where his role
as the manager of Red Hat's Community Architecture team brings strategic
benefits to the Fedora Project.
Over time, I expect to spend more time on work that's internal to Red
Hat, but I will continue to be involved in Fedora to some extent as an
individual contributor. That transition will allow Jared to effectively
bring his own vision and energy to Fedora, and I look forward to helping
him in whatever ways I can.
I hope the entire community will join me in welcoming Jared to Red Hat
as the FPL, and that you'll gift him with the support and friendship
I've enjoyed and treasured over the past two and a half years."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002832.html
---- FPL travel to LATAM events! ----
Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1]:
"In just a few weeks, the Fedora community in Latin America will hold a
major FUDCon event in Santiago, Chile, from July 15-17, 2010. You can
find all the details on our wiki[2]
Encouraging the growth of Fedora community around the world is important
to our project. That's why the responsibilities of the Fedora Project
Leader include lowering barriers and advocating for involvement and
participation. One of the ways the FPL does this is by travelling to
different community events and talking about the way that Fedora works,
and our dedication to sustainable community and free software development.
So I'm very pleased and excited to announce that our new Fedora Project
Leader Jared Smith's first appearance at a community event will be at
the FUDCon in Santiago, Chile. In addition, just a few days afterward
Jared will attend the FISL 11 conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Both events represent a unique opportunity for the Fedora Project to
support our friends and extend our community in Latin America. As
always, the FUDCon event in Santiago is free and open to everyone to
register and attend. We look forward to seeing the community at these
events!
You can find more information about Jared[3]"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002833.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Santiago_2010
3.
http://press.redhat.com/2010/06/29/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jare...
--- Fedora Development News ---
---- Bodhi 0.7.5 release ----
Luke Macken announced[1]:
"I just pushed a version 0.7.5 of bodhi into production. This release
contains the following notable changes:
proventesters & strict critical path update handling
For critical path[2] updates to be approved for pushing to the stable
repository, they now require a minimum karma of 2, consisting of a +1
from a single proventester[3], and a +1 from another authenticated user.
You can get a list of critical path updates using the bodhi web interface[4]
You can optionally pass in a specific 'release' or an 'untested' flag,
which will return a list of critical path updates that have yet to be
approved. I have not added these links to the main interface yet,
because at the moment they are fairly expensive calls. This will be
addressed in an upcoming release.
The latest command-line client also supports these options as well:
$ bodhi --critpath --untested --release F13
Auto-obsoletion re-enabled
I re-enabled the auto-obsoletion code in bodhi. This means that new
updates will automatically obsolete older testing updates containing the
same packages. The new update will also inherit all of the old updates
bugs and notes. This code had been disabled for a while now, due to some
nasty edge cases, but those have since been resolved.
If you experience any problems, please file tickets here[5]"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-June/000626....
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinProvenTesters
4.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/critpath?release=F13&untested=True
5. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket
---- Fedora 14 Feature Submission Deadline in Two Weeks ----
John Poelstra reminded[1] the community of the upcoming Fedora 14
feature submission deadline:
"Another friendly and brief reminder that the deadline for new features
for Fedora 14 is July 13, 2010.
A list of features accepted so far[2]
Wiki pages explaining the feature process[3]
Please send any other questions about the feature process or this
deadline by replying to this message on the list."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-June/000625....
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and
meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your
agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering
near you!
---- Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 2010) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_2
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_3
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_4
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community
members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
Jonathan Dieter mentioned[1] that deltarpms should be working again now
for Fedora 13.
Benjamin Otte analyzed[2] the performance of Cairo with a number of
different graphics chipset and driver configurations. The results may
surprise you.
Máirín Duffy found[3] a bunch of amusing geeky comic strips. But more
seriously, Máirín identified[4] the first "Fedora Design Bounty Ninja".
"Jef responded to our first Fedora Design Bi-Weekly Bounty just a couple
of hours after it was posted, and he did an amazing job putting together
a 6-page layout for the Fedora 13 feature profiles, carefully adhering
to all of the Fedora branding guidelines and providing all of his source
work!"
Adam Williamson reminded[5] Flash users running 64-bit systems how they
can use Flash Player, now that the 64-bit downloads have been pulled.
Andrew Vermilya Jamison outled[6] a few of the exciting new features of
Fedora 13.
Lennart Poettering suggested[7] a number of sources of data that could
be used under Linux to help generate unique identifiers. "When
programming software that cooperates with software running on behalf of
other users, other sessions or other computers it is often necessary to
work with unique identifiers. These can be bound to various hardware and
software objects as well as lifetimes. Often, when people look for such
an ID to use they pick the wrong one because semantics and lifetime or
the IDs are not clear."
Lennart also wrote[8] a[9] pair of articles on handling locking under
Linux (and the sad state of locking under Linux in general).
Luis Villa dissected[10] the US Supreme Court Bilski ruling. "I'm afraid
that at the end of this brief train ride, my only firm conclusion can be
that the real winners here are patent lawyers - this decision creates no
new certainties, only uncertainties, which will encourage patenters to
spend more money patenting things, and the rest of us to waste time and
energy worrying about the problem - time and energy that should have
been spent on innovating..."
The Red Hat Press Office announced[11] that Jared Smith will become the
new Fedora Project Leader. Paul W. Frields posted[12] a few words about
passing on the baton to Jared.
1.
http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/deltarpms-mostly-fixed-in...
2. http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2010/06/26/fun-with-benchmarks/
3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/some-geeky-comics/
4.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/first-fedora-design-ninja-identified/
5. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/06/26/a-quick-reminder-on-64-bit-flash/
6.
http://blogs.andyjamison.com/andy/2010/06/26/fedora-13-way-more-then-hype...
7. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/ids.html
8. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking.html
9. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking2.html
10. http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/06/28/first-thoughts-on-bilski/
11.
http://press.redhat.com/2010/06/29/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jare...
12. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=3259
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project
from 2010-06-23 to 2010-06-29.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross
Nelson Marques[1] continues his effort to complete a SWOT analysis.
Jef van Schendel[2] started to work stetical details of the Fedora's
Twitter account. Gerard Braad[3] proposed to extend this to identi.ca
account
Jef van Schendel[4] shared the printable version of the feature profiles
Robyn Bergeron[5] is trying to make a list of interview topics that we
can tackle to have content flowing in between releases.
Nelson Marques[6] contribute with a useful SOP (Standar Operational
Procedure) for doing focus group, which can be handy for anyone in the
project. He also picked up on having a slide deck[7] which ultimately
ended in a ticket for desing team for creating a full template with
official fonts, background and predefined colors
Finally we have MMM – Marketing Meeting Minutes[8].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013140.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013143.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013167.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013146.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013148.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013154.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013158.html
8.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-29/fedora_marke...
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that
is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
This past week's press focused on the appointment of Jared Smith as the
new Fedora Project leader. Several postings follow.
--- New Fedora Project Leader appointed (The H Online) ---
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a brief posting about Jared Smith's appointment:
"Jared Smith will be the new Project Leader of the Fedora Project. This
is the second non-Red Hat employee Red Hat has hired and appointed as
Fedora Project Leader, after previous Project Leader Paul W. Frields."
The full post is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013200.html
2.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/New-Fedora-Project-Leader-appointe...
--- New project leader wears the Fedora (The Register UK) ---
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a posting covering Fedora 13 from a blog from
2010-06-16:
"Paul Frields, who has been getting his paycheck from Red Hat to run the
Fedora development Linux variant since 2008, is moving back inside the
company to work on Enterprise Linux, and an outsider named Jared Smith
is being brought in as the new Fedora Project Leader.
Frields joined Red Hat in February 2008, replacing Max Spevack, another
Red Hat employee who ran the open source Linux development product from
February 2006 until Frields took over. Smith will take over the FPL
position (which is a full-time job with a Red Hat paycheck) to steer the
development of Fedora 14, something that Frields already got the ball
rolling on."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013199.html
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/29/new_fedora_project_leader/
--- Red Hat names new Fedora Project Leader (Internetnews.com) ---
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a posting from Internetnews.com:
"I'm a huge fan of the work and the leadership that current Fedora
Project Leader Paul Frields has done since 2008. Frields has always been
one of the most articulate, honest and insightful Linux community
leaders that I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
. . .
The process of how Fedora's leadership is chosen is different than other
distributions. It's not a totally democratic process like the one that
Debian has. On the other hand it's not totally autocratic like Ubuntu.
In a mailing list posting announcing the transition, Frields explained
the process. "One of the hallmarks of Fedora leadership is that it's
open to change," Frields wrote. "The FPL is not a semi-benevolent
dictator for life, but rather a position to which new people can
regularly bring their passion for making Fedora better...The FPL job is
a salaried position at Red Hat, and the Fedora Board members as well as
many other stakeholders have been informed and involved with the process
of selecting a new FPL."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013193.html
2.
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/06/red-hat-names-new-fedora-pro...
-- Ambassadors --
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Fedora Release Party in Quebec ---
Rene Purcell reports that Fedora Ambassadors in Quebec held a Fedora 13
release party in Québec city earlier this month. Many people attended to
learn new features and discuss about the new release.
Jean-Francois Saucier and Rene gave a presentation about new features in
Goddard, and attendees were offered live media, as well as setting up a
usb stick station where we offered to create live usb sticks.
A report on the event can be found here.
--- Let us know about your Fedora 13 activities ---
Fedora 13 has now launched and Ambassadors are encouraged to hold
release events. If you are planning to hold an event, let Fedora Weekly
News know. Drop a line to lcafiero=at=fedoraproject-dot-org with the
details and we'll get it in FWN.
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more
information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see
the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Test Day process improvements ---
A message[1] from James Laska prompted a wide discussion of possible
improvements to the Test Day process to improve participation. James
asked[2] if the group was trying to run too many events and not
dedicating sufficient time to each, but Adam Williamson did not think so[3].
Jóhann Guðmundsson suggested[4] extending the test period to a week and
broadening the coverage of each event. Adam felt the concurrency aspect
of a single day to bring testers and developers together in real-time
was valuable, but thought Jóhann had a valuable point in that the group
could do a better job of making it clear to potential testers that
testing performed outside of the Test Day is still valuable. Jeff Raber
made some concrete suggestions[5] as to how this could be achieved, and
Adam implemented them[6].
Jeff also suggested changing the name of the events, though Adam
mentioned in his reply that he had not been able to think of anything
that improved on 'Test Day'. Eric Blake suggsted[7] 'Test Blitz', James
contributed[8] 'Bug Day' and Jóhann favored[9]'Test Sprint'. Adam
jokingly proposed a poll[10], and added some wider-ranging thoughts
about how the process could be re-organized to provide greater
opportunities for participation and publicity while not losing the
aspect of concurrency.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091564.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091567.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091571.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091566.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091575.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091576.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091585.html
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091590.html
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091592.html
10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091593.html
--- Proven testers ---
After several more revisions following the work mentioned in last week's
issue, Aaron Farnes announced[1] that the proven testers instruction
page had been moved to the main wiki space[2]. Several people replied to
congratulate Aaron on the clarity of the page.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091625.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester
--- New desktop release criteria ---
Adam Williamson proposed[1] several new release criteria, as a result of
his discussions with the various desktop SIGs. These would cover session
management tasks, update notification, and keyring functionality.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091702.html
--- Fedora 14 recommendations ---
James Laska announced[1] that he had filed a group of trac tickets
covering the recommendations for the Fedora 14 cycle which had derived
from the Fedora 13 retrospective discussed in previous issues.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091663.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Weekly Design Team IRC Meeting ---
A new weekly Design Team IRC Meeting happened, the notes[1] are
available, and it covered Fedora 14 Artwork Schedule, the Trac tickets
queue, the Design Team Bi-Weekly Bounty, the fedora official font and
marketing the design team.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002692.html
--- The Design Team Story ---
Robyn Bergeron from the Marketing team asked[1] for stories from the
Design Team "it would be super cool to do a piece on what the Design
team is up to - particularly since we're really at the start of the
cycle here, and it's a great time for people to get involved and come up
to speed without it being crunch time. :)", the topic was discussed at
the weekly IRC meeting where Robyn was invited, and Máirín Duffy
summed[2] the conclusions, as 6 possible interviews with members of the
team on various projects they are working on.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002659.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002694.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* kvirc-4.0.0-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04360...
* moin-1.9.3-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04358...
* python-paste-1.7.4-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04355...
* seamonkey-2.0.5-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04341...
* galeon-2.0.7-29.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04340...
* gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-19.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04340...
* perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04340...
* gnome-web-photo-0.9-9.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04340...
* mozvoikko-1.0-11.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04340...
* firefox-3.6.4-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04340...
* xulrunner-1.9.2.4-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04340...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* kvirc-4.0.0-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04362...
* lftp-4.0.8-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04359...
* python-paste-1.7.4-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04354...
* gnutls-2.8.6-2.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04344...
* dhcp-4.1.1-17.P1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04338...
* firefox-3.5.10-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04336...
* galeon-2.0.7-23.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04337...
* perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc12.13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04337...
* gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-18.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04337...
* gnome-web-photo-0.9-7.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04337...
* mozvoikko-1.0-10.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04337...
* xulrunner-1.9.1.10-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04337...
* seamonkey-2.0.5-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04335...
--- Fedora 11 Security Advisories ---
* python-paste-1.7.4-1.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04345...
* cups-1.4.4-4.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/04343...
- end FWN 232 -
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