gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.core.announce

Re: The Future of release names

Toshio Kuratomi — 2012-05-09T17:57:45

Hmm... That would help wouldn't it? ;-)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Future_Release_Naming

-Toshio

Fedora Weekly News (FWN): Issue 295

Rashadul Islam — 2012-05-11T18:43:12

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 Contents

   - 1 Fedora Weekly News : Issue
295<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue295#Fedora_Weekly_News_:_Issue_295>
      - 1.1 Announcements<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue295#Announcements>
         - 1.1.1 Breaking News of the
Week<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue295#Breaking_News_of_the_Week>
            - 1.1.1.1 Fedora 18 release name by Robyn Bergeron published on
            Mon Apr 30 13:51:00 UTC
2012<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue295#Fedora_18_release_name_by_Robyn_Bergeron_published_on_Mon_Apr_30_13:51:00_UTC_2012>
            - 1.1.1.2 Formally announcing FUDCon: Paris and FUDCon:
            Lawrence by Robyn Bergeron published on Tue May 8 14:06:41
UTC 2012<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue295#Formally_announcing_FUDCon:_Paris_and_FUDCon:_Lawrence_by_Robyn_Bergeron_published_on_Tue_May_8_14:06:41_UTC_2012>
            - 1.1.1.3 Appointment to the Fedora Board, and Elections

The Future of release names

Toshio Kuratomi — 2012-05-09T08:39:18

At the last Board Meeting, the Board looked at the poll results asking
whether people felt like continuing to name releases.  The results seemed
to show that many people do like having a name associated with Fedora
releases.  However, the discussion before and after has shown there is
a desire to improve upon the current method of selecting the names.

The Board decided that it would be worthwhile to come up with a new
procedure for selecting the name for the Fedora 19 release and beyond to
attempt to solve some of the issues that have been brought up.  The Board
is looking for volunteers who would like to do two things:

(1) Answer the following questions:

* What benefits does the Project get from the current release naming
  process?
* What changes do people want to see in a revised process?

(2) Come up with at least one proposal and analyze it according to the
    answers to the previous questions.

If anyone is interested in coming to a weekly meeting to work on this,
please feel free to contact me.  I

Appointment to the Fedora Board, and Elections Reminder

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-05-08T17:29:41

I'm pleased to announce the appointment of Garrett Holmstrom to the 
Fedora Board.  In this election cycle, three Board seats are open for 
election, and two Board appointee seats are open; the first appointee, 
Garrett, is being appointed prior to nominations opening, and the second 
will be appointed after elections are completed.

Garrett (aka: gholms) has been involved in the Cloud SIG since the 
"early days" (early 2010, to be more precise), as the maintainer of the 
euca2ools package.  As the group has progressed, he's taken on a number 
of tasks, doled out much advice and opinion, and has shown himself to be 
an excellent leader and communicator.  He's also a regular in the 
#fedora-devel channel, willing to help out and answer questions as he 
can. I'm delighted that he has agreed to serve on the Board; I believe 
that, as a community, we should constantly strive to nurture and grow 
new leadership, and I think that Garrett's communication skills and 
positive attitude will be a fantastic asset to th

Formally announcing FUDCon: Paris and FUDCon: Lawrence.

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-05-08T14:06:41

As many of you know, FUDCon is the abbreviation for Fedora Users and 
Developers Conference, an event we typically hold 4 times per year in 
various regions of the world.  These events are proposed and arranged 
largely by Fedora contributors, and are designed to be events where 
contributors and those new to Fedora can learn, share, hack, and 
participate in various aspects of the Fedora Project.

It is with great pleasure that I am formally announcing two upcoming 
FUDCons:

FUDCon for the EMEA region in 2012 will be held in Paris, France, 
October 13-15, 2012 [1].  This particular event will be held over those 
days in two locations; the first day, Saturday the 13th, will be held at 
the Eurosites Georges V facility, in conjunction with the Open World 
Forum (OWF) [2], and on the 14th and 15th at Universcience. I'd like to 
thank Kevin Raymond and the rest of the FUDCon Paris team for putting 
together this bid, and for working with OWF to procure space during that 
event for the first day of FUDCon; I th

Fedora 18 release name

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-04-30T13:51:00

Thank you to everyone who participated in voting for the Fedora 18
release name. The name for Fedora 18, the follow-up to Beefy Miracle,
is:

      Spherical Cow

Voting period:  Friday 2012-04-20 00:00:00 to Friday 2012-04-27 00:00:00
Number of valid ballots cast:  429

Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum
of (429*8) = 3,432

Results:

Votes :: Name
-------------------------------
1359 :: Spherical Cow
1087 :: Halva
1072 :: Chamoy
1035 :: Pamukkale
964 :: Tandoori Chicken
930 :: Frankfurter
821 :: Pop Soda
536 :: Ketchy Ketchup


-Robyn

Fedora Weekly News: Issue 294

Rashadul Islam — 2012-04-29T13:07:34

[image: FWN Header.png]Contents

   - 1 Fedora Weekly News : Issue
294<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Weekly_News_:_Issue_294>
      - 1.1 Announcements<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Announcements>
         - 1.1.1 Breaking News of the
Week<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Breaking_News_of_the_Week>
            - 1.1.1.1 New FAmSCo election
guidelines<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#New_FAmSCo_election_guidelines>
               - 1.1.1.1.1 More
continuity<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#More_continuity>
               - 1.1.1.1.2 Easier filling of vacant
seats<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Easier_filling_of_vacant_seats>
               - 1.1.1.1.3 Wider
electorate<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Wider_electorate>
            - 1.1.1.2 Fedora Elections: General information, and
            questionnaire
opening.<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Elections:_General_information.2C_and_questionnaire_o

Fedora Elections: General information, and questionnaire opening.

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-04-27T11:52:50

GREETINGS!

It is once again time for election season to begin.  As noted in the 
elections schedule[1], the elections questionnaire is now open to 
populate with questions for candidates, and will close on May 8th.  The 
elections nomination period will begin AFTER the questionnaire period 
has closed.

You may add your burning questions for candidates to answer here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_elections_questionnaire

The following seats are available in this election:

* Fedora Project Board: 3 seats
* FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee):  5 seats
* FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee): 7 seats

Please take note of the following changes for this election:

* All questions for the questionnaire must be submitted by May 8th, 
prior to the beginning of nominations. As seen in the schedule above, 
the nomination period does not start until May 9th.
* As noted on announce-list[2], FAmSCo is electing all 7 seats this 
cycle, with the goal of having staggered elections similar to the B

Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-27 02:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi — 2012-04-26T22:37:22

There will be another outage of fedorahosted.org at 
2012-04-27 02:00 UTC that could last around 2 hours. 

We will be backing out to our previous hosts until we can work out some
issues with group handling on the new cluster. 

Please follow: 
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3263

For up to date status and information. 

Thanks for your patience. 

kevin

New FAmSCo election guidelines

Christoph Wickert — 2012-04-26T11:19:10

Hi there,

after months of - sometimes controversial - discussion I am am happy to
announce the new FAmSCo election guidelines [1]. For those of you, who
did not follow the discussion, here is a brief summary of the three most
important changes:

More continuity
Instead of electing all seats once a year, we follow the example of the
Fedora Board and FESCo and elect half of the committee every 6 months or
with every release of Fedora.  FAmSCo will not change over sudden and
new members can easily catch up with their new duties by learning from
others.

Easier filling of vacant seats
Every committee is in danger of members becoming inactive.  This can
happen to all of us for various reasons such as our dayjobs or personal
problems.  Under the old guidelines [2], we had to wait until only 3
members left - even with 2 left the committee is hardly operational -
and then call a supplementary election - which never happened even
though we had only 4 active members.  Now we are filling vacant seat
when necessary, ei

Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi — 2012-04-23T16:50:26

Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC

There will be an outage starting at 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 2 hours.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run:

date -d ' 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

We are finally ready to move fedorahosted to a new pair of machines.
This should balance load out over 2 nodes instead of the current single
node, and allow smooth reboots of nodes. Data will be replicated with
the help of glusterfs.

Affected Services:

Fedora Hosted -  https://fedorahosted.org/

Unaffected Services:

Ask Fedora -  http://ask.fedoraproject.org/

BFO -  http://boot.fedoraproject.org/

Bodhi -  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/

Buildsystem -  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/

GIT / Source Control

DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org

Docs -  http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Email system

Fedora Account System -  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

Fedo

Fedora Weekly News: Issue 293

Rashadul Islam — 2012-04-20T18:46:18

Contents

   - 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue
293<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue293#Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_293>
      - 1.1 Announcements<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue293#Announcements>
         - 1.1.1 Breaking News of the
Week<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue293#Breaking_News_of_the_Week>
            - 1.1.1.1 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging
            Guidelines<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue293#.5BGuidelines_Change.5D_Changes_to_the_Packaging_Guidelines>
            - 1.1.1.2 Announcing the release of Fedora 18
Beta!<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue293#Announcing_the_release_of_Fedora_18_Beta.21>
               - 1.1.1.2.1 What is the Beta
Release?<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue293#What_is_the_Beta_Release.3F>
               - 1.1.1.2.2
Features<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue293#Features>
               - 1.1.1.2.3 Contributing to
Fedora<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue293#Contributing_to_Fedora>
            - 1.1.1.3

Fedora 18 Release name voting and Poll for whether to continuenaming releases

Toshio Kuratomi — 2012-04-20T00:04:15

Voting for the Fedora 18 release names has begun.  You can find the
potential names in the voting application:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/

If you are a Fedora contributor (defined as having signed the FPCA and being
in one other Fedora group in the account system) then you are eligilbe to
vote.

This cycle, the Board is also asking contributors to let us know if we
should continue to have release names for future Fedora releases.  Even
though the interface is the same, this portion is intended to be a poll
rather than a straight up vote.  The Fedora Board will look at the answers
to determine if enough contributors value continuing to create release names
to make it worthwhile in the future.  If it does seem desirable, the Board
will likely look into forming a working group to come up with a new method
for creating release names for future releases.

The poll for keeping release names is also found in the voting application:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/

Eligibility to answer the

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 17 Beta!

Dennis Gilmore — 2012-04-17T14:24:26

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Lets try again.  its really Fedora 17 Beta, we have not yet entered a
time vortex and skipped ahead,  But now is a great time to work on or
see what will be coming next in Fedora 18 :)

El Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:17:02 -0500
Dennis Gilmore <dennis< at >ausil.us> escribió:

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Announcing the release of Fedora 18 Beta!

Dennis Gilmore — 2012-04-17T14:17:02

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Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Beta
release of Beefy Miracle! Flying 'round the world at the speed of the 
intertubes, delivering progress, mustard, and freedom to the masses.

We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release of 
Fedora 17.  Want to get a taste of the future?  Download it now:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

== What is the Beta Release? ==

The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17.  Only 
critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general 
release of Fedora 17 in May. We invite you to join us in making Fedora 
17 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable 
feedback.

Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may still 
be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at
the Common F17 bugs page, seen here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs

== Features

[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Tom Callaway — 2012-04-12T20:57:29

Here is the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:

---

A bundling exception for boost within Passenger was granted, due to the
intrusive nature of the forked changes, the efforts of the maintainer to
merge as many of them as possible into the upstream boost source tree,
and the visible efforts of the upstream to keep the bundled copy of
boost in sync with the current boost releases.

The package must also include a Requires: bundled(boost) = $VERSION
where $VERSION is the boost version being bundled.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_granted_exceptions

---

Packages which have SysV initscripts that contain 'non-standard service
commands' (commands besides start, stop, reload, restart, or
try-restart) must convert those commands into standalone helper scripts.
Systemd does not support non-standard unit commands.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Unit_Files

---

A section was added to the systemd Packaging Guidelines page with a link

Re: Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-09 21:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi — 2012-04-09T21:17:49

We are going to re-schedule this outage for a later date.

We would like to finish additional testing to make sure our new setup
is robust and ready for service.

Probibly later this week or early next week.

Sorry for any inconvenience. 

kevin
--
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 10:29:46 -0600
Kevin Fenzi <kevin< at >scrye.com> wrote:

Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-09 21:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi — 2012-04-05T16:29:46

Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-09 21:00 UTC

There will be an outage starting at 2012-04-09 UTC, which will last
approximately 2 hours.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run:

date -d '2012-04-09 21:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

We are moving fedorahosted services to a new cluster backed by
glusterfs. This should allow us to distribute load easier across nodes
and provide better response time, as well as allowing us to reboot
servers without downtime moving forward.

Affected Services:

Fedora Hosted -  https://fedorahosted.org/

Unaffected Services:

Ask Fedora -  http://ask.fedoraproject.org/

BFO -  http://boot.fedoraproject.org/

Bodhi -  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/

Buildsystem -  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/

GIT / Source Control

DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org

Docs -  http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Email system

Fedora Account System -  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

Fed

Fedora Weekly News: Issue 291

Rashadul Islam — 2012-03-30T08:08:18

Contents1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 291

   -
   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue291#Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_291>
      - 1.1 Announcements<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue291#Announcements>
         - 1.1.1 Breaking News of the
Week<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue291#Breaking_News_of_the_Week>
            - 1.1.1.1 GSoC : Students application period
started<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue291#GSoC_:_Students_application_period_started>
         - 1.1.2 Fedora Development
News<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue291#Fedora_Development_News>
            - 1.1.2.1 Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Wednesday, March 28,
            < at >17:00
Eastern<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue291#Fedora_17_Beta_Go.2FNo-Go_Meeting.2C_Wednesday.2C_March_28.2C_.4017:00_Eastern>
         - 1.1.3 Fedora
Events<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue291#Fedora_Events>
            - 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (December 2011 - May
2012)<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue291#Upcoming_Eve

GSoC : Students application period started

Buddhike Kurera — 2012-03-26T17:53:07

Dear Students,

The students application period will be open[1] from today, 26th March 1900
UTC.
Interested students can start submitting their applications (proposals) to
the Fedora project and
google-melange.

Please make sure you complete following on or before the deadline, 06th
April, 1900 UTC.
Do not wait till the last minute, no late proposals will be entertained by
gsoc program admins or
Fedora project.

Complete how-to guide on submitting proposals[2] to the Fedora project can
be found at wiki [3] and
each and every proposal should be submitted via the google-melange.com as
well. (get registered with the
program if you dont) You should create your proposal on the wiki[4] and
send the link to the summer-coding
mailing list. One student can submit more than one proposal[5] but bare
mind the quality matters than
the quantity.

A template of the application[6] should be followed. Every question should
be answered on the application
template. Feel free to add anything important and related except the
que

Fedora Weekly News: Issue 290

Rashadul Islam — 2012-03-23T07:24:07

Contents

   - 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue
290<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_290>
      - 1.1 Announcements<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#Announcements>
         - 1.1.1 Breaking News of the
Week<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#Breaking_News_of_the_Week>
            - 1.1.1.1 FUDCon APAC 2012 will be in lovely Kuala Lumpur,
            Malaysia!<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#FUDCon_APAC_2012_will_be_in_lovely_Kuala_Lumpur.2C_Malaysia.21>
            - 1.1.1.2 FUDCon Kuala Lumpur travel subsidy requests are now
            open<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#FUDCon_Kuala_Lumpur_travel_subsidy_requests_are_now_open>
            - 1.1.1.3 Fedora is featuring on GSoC
2012<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#Fedora_is_featuring_on_GSoC_2012>
            - 1.1.1.4 It is time for another episode of: NAME THAT FEDORA
            RELEASE<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#It_is_time_for_another_ep