Hello, I'm interested in the happennings around Xen and virtualization on Fedora, and was considering trying my hand at rounding up info and trying to write something for FWN.
I won't promise right this second, but what beat would I put this in if I did? Developments?
Also, Linuxworld is in San Francisco next week. I'll be there. Is there going to be any Fedora presence there? Is it going to be announced?
I see no mention in issue 136. I checked the beats in progress and didn't see mention either. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats
-- Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis GPG: 0xB098A0F3 0D5A 9AEB 43F4 F84C 7EFD 1753 064D 2583 B098 A0F3
Hi Dale --
Thanks for volunteering! From my perspective, it would be nice to have a Features section where we can highlight occasional longer contributions like this on an occasional basis. Certainly it could go in as a Fedora Planet posting that gets covered in FWN, but it might be nice to try to develop longer contributions as part of FWN to move it into this space as well. It is really great to be able to highlight the user community's involvement in pieces like this!
Others may have some other ideas, I am but one voice.
- pascal
Dale Bewley wrote:
Hello, I'm interested in the happennings around Xen and virtualization on Fedora, and was considering trying my hand at rounding up info and trying to write something for FWN.
I won't promise right this second, but what beat would I put this in if I did? Developments?
Also, Linuxworld is in San Francisco next week. I'll be there. Is there going to be any Fedora presence there? Is it going to be announced?
I see no mention in issue 136. I checked the beats in progress and didn't see mention either. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats
-- Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis GPG: 0xB098A0F3 0D5A 9AEB 43F4 F84C 7EFD 1753 064D 2583 B098 A0F3
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:36:32 -0700, "Pascal Calarco" pcalarco@nd.edu said:
Hi Dale --
Thanks for volunteering! From my perspective, it would be nice to have a Features section where we can highlight occasional longer contributions like this on an occasional basis.
I think that's the cleanest solution and if there are no strong objections we should just go ahead and add it. The only possible objections that I can see would be if we increased the length of the bulletin too much, or if we diluted the current feel, which is roughly "stuff that happened on public lists and blogs of the Fedora Project during the past week." I'm not bothered by either of those though and am thrilled that Dale is thinking of doing this.
----- "Oisin Feeley" oisinfeeley@imapmail.org wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:36:32 -0700, "Pascal Calarco" pcalarco@nd.edu said:
Hi Dale --
Thanks for volunteering! From my perspective, it would be nice to
have
a Features section where we can highlight occasional longer contributions like this on an occasional basis.
I think that's the cleanest solution and if there are no strong objections we should just go ahead and add it. The only possible objections that I can see would be if we increased the length of the bulletin too much, or if we diluted the current feel, which is roughly "stuff that happened on public lists and blogs of the Fedora Project during the past week." I'm not bothered by either of those though and am thrilled that Dale is thinking of doing this.
Well, that was kind of my thought process. I've always enjoyed being able to read summaries of what took place on the various Fedora lists to get a feel for what's happening in the project overall.
So, I thought I could maybe take a whack at summarizing some of the posts to the fedora-xen list to help me grok the status and hopefully others as well.
Fedora support for Xen dom0 is in flux to say the least. It's possible it won't be in F10, and there are some out there like me who require it given the hardware (without HVM) we are using.
It's a pretty low traffic list. I'm interested in oVirt too, but have yet to get involved with it. Virtualization is a pretty hot topic. I don't know if it could be it's own beat, but it is a multifaceted feature.
I could always blog about it and go the planet route. I have yet to get added to a group in FAS, so I don't yet have shell to hold a .planetrc. I should look into that first, I suppose.
-- Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis GPG: 0xB098A0F3 0D5A 9AEB 43F4 F84C 7EFD 1753 064D 2583 B098 A0F3
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:01:58 -0700 (PDT), "Dale Bewley" dlbewley@lib.ucdavis.edu said:
Well, that was kind of my thought process. I've always enjoyed being able to read summaries of what took place on the various Fedora lists to get a feel for what's happening in the project overall.
Yes, I see that as the main focus. It's what drew me in to FWN. There's just too much going on to keep track of otherwise. I'm glad you feel the same.
So, I thought I could maybe take a whack at summarizing some of the posts to the fedora-xen list to help me grok the status and hopefully others as well.
Awesome! It just gets better and better. We could definitely do with an === Xen === beat or something more general, like === Virtualization ===. I've only dipped in and out occasionally and would love to be kept up to date on it with a weekly summary.
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:08:22 -0700 (PDT), "Dale Bewley" dlbewley@lib.ucdavis.edu said:
Hello, I'm interested in the happennings around Xen and virtualization on Fedora, and was considering trying my hand at rounding up info and trying to write something for FWN.
Great!
I won't promise right this second, but what beat would I put this in if I did? Developments?
In general the beats are structured to reflect aspects of the public-facing lists of the Fedora Project. Currently the "Development" beat reports solely on the doings of the @fedora-devel list. I think it would be best to keep our current structure consistent, but I don't really object if others have strong opinions.
I think Pascal's recommendation of making this a Fedora Planet item may be the best way. But we could also do a special Guest beat if needed. What length and audience are you considering? Red Hat Magazine[1] is another option if you're considering something longer.
Also, Linuxworld is in San Francisco next week. I'll be there. Is there going to be any Fedora presence there? Is it going to be announced?
I'm not sure. Ambassadors and/or Marketing[2] would be more likely to have answers. If you do go then it'd be nice to have a brief FWN write up ;)
I hope you go ahead and write up the virtualization stuff. Apart from Xen there are some nice things happening with oVirt[3] which are pretty exciting.
[1] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/
[2] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list
[3] http://ovirt.org/about.html