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Fedora 17 Final is declared GOLD!

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-05-24T19:17:15

At the Fedora 17 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the F17 Final Release 
(RC4) was declared GOLD and ready for GA on May 29, 2012.

Thanks to everyone who came today, and to everyone who helped get the 
Beefy Miracle ready for public devouring. :) Links to meeting minutes 
and logs follow below.

Cheers,

-Robyn




Meeting Minutes: 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-05-24/fedora_17_final_go_nogo_meeting_round_2.2012-05-24-17.01.html
Log: 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-05-24/fedora_17_final_go_nogo_meeting_round_2.2012-05-24-17.01.log.html


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#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora 17 Final Go NoGo Meeting Round 2
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 17:01:09 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-05-24/fedora_17_final_go_nogo_meeting_round_2.2012-05-24-17.01.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Why are we

Fedora 17 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting (#2), Thursday, May 24,< at >13:00 Eastern

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-05-23T12:16:21

Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this 
important meeting, wherein we shall determine the shipment readiness of 
F17 Final.

Thursday, May 24, 2012 < at > 17:00 UTC (13:00 EDT/10:00 PDT)

"Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet 
to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. 
This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of 
the QA Team."

For more details about this meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting

In the meantime: Keep an eye on the blocker list here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers

Let's ship the beefy miracle, folks! :)

-Robyn
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Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo elections: Town hall meeting schedule

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-05-23T11:43:56

As you have (hopefully) heard by now, elections for the Fedora Board, 
FESCo, and FAmSCo are quickly approaching.

In each election cycle, a series of town hall meetings is held to give 
community members and opportunity to ask candidates questions - and hear 
their answers - via IRC.

The town hall schedule for the upcoming election is as follows:

Fedora Project Board:
* Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 17:00 UTC
* Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 20:00 UTC

FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee):
* Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 17:00 UTC
* Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 20:00 UTC

FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee):
* Sunday, May 27, 2012 at 16:00 UTC
* Monday, May 28 at 17:00 UTC

Not sure what time that is? Use a handy-dandy time zone calculator to 
find out when to show up:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Important information about how you can participate in the town halls 
via IRC, as well as the details of each town hall meeting, can be seen 
on the wiki here:

http://fedoraprojec

F17 GA to slip by one week.

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-05-17T18:55:46

At the Go/No-Go meeting today, it was decided to slip the GA of Fedora 
17 by one week[1]. There are currently 4 remaining release blockers[2], 
necessitating the creation of RC2. Minutes follow below.

GA for F17 is now scheduled for 2012-05-29.  Adjustments to the 
schedule[3] and wiki will be completed later today.

We will be meeting again next Thursday, 2012-05-24, for another Go/No-Go 
meeting.

Thanks for your patience!

-Robyn

[1] 
Minutes:http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-05-17/f17_final_go_no_go_meeting.2012-05-17-17.03.html
     Log: 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-05-17/f17_final_go_no_go_meeting.2012-05-17-17.03.log.html

[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers

[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule

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#fedora-meeting-1: F17 Final Go No Go Meeting
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 17:03:17 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbo

Fedora 17 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, May 17, < at >13:00 Eastern

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-05-16T12:00:46

Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this 
important meeting, wherein we shall determine the shipment readiness of 
F17 Final.

Thursday, May 17, 2012 < at > 17:00 UTC (13:00 EDT/10:00 PDT)

"Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet 
to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. 
This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of 
the QA Team."

For more details about this meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting

Note that we have historically had Go/No-go on Wednesdays, and Tuesdays 
for Final; we have been pushing the final call consistently to 
Thursdays, and thus (by popular demand) we are going to attempt having 
the meeting on Thursday itself, rather than dragging it out.  The 
release readiness meeting will still follow this meeting, on Thursday.

-Robyn
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Fedora 17 for Power Beta Available

David Aquilina — 2012-05-11T20:56:15

For all of those who like their Beefy Miracles with a little more Power,
I'm pleased to announce that the Fedora 17 Beta for Power is now
available from your friendly local mirror: 

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/17-Beta/ppc64/ 

Please see the release announcement for additional details and new
features / known issues in the beta: 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Beta_PPC_Announcement

If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please feel
free to join the Fedora for Power team in #fedora-ppc on Freenode or
drop us an e-mail on the ppc mailing list. As always, we are actively
welcoming code contributions from the community for install and runtime
support of 32-bit Mac PPC hardware. 

For the Fedora for Power team, 
David

Fedora Weekly News (FWN): Issue 295

Rashadul Islam — 2012-05-11T18:43:12

 [image: FWN Header.png] <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:FWN_Header.png>

 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

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 17 Change Freeze

Dennis Gilmore — 2012-05-01T18:30:02

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Hi all,

the fedora 17 schedule
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/Schedule lists the final
change freeze as 2012-05-07 this means that you need to make sure that
any changes you want in Fedora 17 final must be submited for stable in
Bodhi before 2012-05-07 there will be a small window on monday where
you can get your build in still but it is not assured. after this time
only blocker bugs will be accepted to be pushed for stable.  please
work on testing and ensuring anything you want in final has the
appropriate karma. If you have questions please drop by #fedora-releng
on freenode

Thanks

Dennis
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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
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Announcing easyfix

Pierre-Yves Chibon — 2012-04-26T09:12:28

Good news everyone (© Farnsworth),

The easyfix project is now live:
http://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/


As a new-comers, you will be able to find a list of projects which have
bugs/requests considered to be easy to work on (ie: you do not need a
deep understanding of the project to fix/implement it).
The projects are divers and the tickets broad : from fixing typo, add a
link in a template (dev) to add a node to nagios monitoring (sysadmin)
via making the fedoraproject.org page w3c valid (websites).
So everyone should be able to find for his taste.


As upstream, you will have a way to attract new-comers to your project
and fixing easier tasks while you focus on the harder/more complex
one ;-)


Easyfix gathers the tickets from fedorahosted and bugzilla.
If your project hosted on fedorahosted.org and you would like to have it
included, the instruction are on the wiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Easyfix
If you have bugzilla ticket which you consider easy to fix (remember,
easy for a new-comer != easy fo

exiv2-0.23 coming soon

Rex Dieter — 2012-04-25T13:07:31

I plan on importing exiv2-0.23 into rawhide soon'ish.  It includes an 
ABI bump, so dependent packages will require rebuilding, including:
calligra
darktable
entangle
geeqie
gipfel
gnome-color-manager
gnome-commander
gpscorrelate
gthumb
gwenview
hugin
immix
kde-runtime
krename
libextractor
libgexiv2
libkexiv2
luminance-hdr
merkaartor
oyranos
pyexiv2
rawstudio
strigi
ufraw

I'll take care of kicking off a round of rebuilds for these.

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 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
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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

Fedora 17 Beta is declared GOLD.

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-04-12T05:11:27

At today's F17 Beta Go/No-Go meeting, the Fedora 17 Beta release was 
declared gold. F17 Beta will be released Tuesday, April 17, 2012.

Thanks to everyone involved for pulling this one together and 
participating in the meetings, things came together well this week. :)

For those interested in the details:

Minutes: 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-04-11/f17_beta_go_no_go_meeting.2012-04-11-21.00.html
Logs: 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-04-11/f17_beta_go_no_go_meeting.2012-04-11-21.00.log.html

Full minutes follow below.

Cheers,

-Robyn

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Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:32 UTC. The full logs are
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Meeting summary
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* welcome, again  (rbergeron, 21:06:00)
   * need clean bill of

Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Round 3, Wednesday, April 11, < at >17:00Eastern

Robyn Bergeron — 2012-04-11T03:23:31

Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this 
important meeting. This will be Round 3 of this meeting for the Beta 
release of F17.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 < at >21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)

"Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet 
to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. 
This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of 
the QA Team."

For more details about this meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting

In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 17 Beta Blocker list:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers

Ongoing Beta RC test results can be seen here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_17_Beta_RC_Test_Results

See you there, Wednesday, in #fedora-meeting-1.

-Robyn, fingers and toes crossed thoroughly

-Robyn
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Fedora 17 for Power Alpha Announcement

David Aquilina — 2012-04-10T19:51:42

Time flies like the wind...

As it's already time again for another Fedora release on Power, this
time for Fedora 17 Alpha.

We've hit a couple of bumps along the road to the Alpha, but at long
last we're finally at a state where we're ready to release it to the
public.

Due to lack of developer time and hardware, Apple hardware support is at
this point completely untested. Especially with the switch to grub2 we
rely on community feedback and participation to make this work for this
release. So if you have the hardware and want it to work, patches
welcome! :)

The bits are available from your closest mirror:

https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/17-Alpha/ppc64/

More details about this Alpha release can be found here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Alpha_PPC_release_notes

One of our focuses in the lead up to the beta of Fedora 17 for Power
will be addressing architecture-specific packaging issues in as many
packages as possible. If you own a package in Fedora which has
ExclusiveArc