Fedora Weekly News Issue 213

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 213^[1] for the week ending February 14, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive^[2] and have a listen!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page^[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list@redhat.com

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

Planet Fedora

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora^[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks.

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

↑ http://planet.fedoraproject.org

General

Dave Malcolm extended^[1] GDB to handle debugging of Python internals by using the embedded Python interpreter to pretty-print python innards.

Máirín Duffy continued^[2] with Day 7 of an Inkscape class at a Boston-area middle school.

Richard W.M. Jones shared^[3] a tip for using mock to build Rawhide packages under RHEL 5 if they work fine locally but mysteriously fail when built by Koji.

Red Hat has announced^[4] a beta for RHEL 5.5. Enhancements include new hardware support, improved virtualization and better Windows interoperability.

Daniel Berrange showed^[5] how to control "guest CPU & NUMA affinity in libvirt with QEMU, KVM & Xen". In a later post, Daniel explained^[6] how to manage some low-level hardware configuration in libvirt.

Steven Moix installed^[7],^[8] the Nokia N900 (Maemo 5) SDK on Fedora, though there were a few minor hiccups.

A common task when writing DocBook is turning a comma-separated list into an <itemizedlist>. Joshua Wulf wrote^[9] a set of macros for both TextMate and gedit to automate the task.

Ambassadors

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project^[1].

Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

FOSDEM a success for Fedora

Luca Foppiano reports from FOSDEM, held Feb. 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium. "What it will remains impress in my mind, from this FOSDEM, it will be the friendly spirit and the coperation we had." Luca writes. "It was impressing how we managed the booth and the organization, in particular was terrific the cooperations cross-distribution we have with other guys from Debian, Centos . . . I believe the decision of the FOSDEM organization to mix the distributions rooms was a good choice . . . It was worthy for my coming to this event, I went home with a lot of new ideas and motivations."

Luca's report can be found here: http://blog.foppiano.org/2010/02/14/fosdem-2010/

Photos from FOSDEM can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lfoppiano/sets/72157623426101136/

SCALE starts this week in Los Angeles

The Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 8x starts Friday, Feb. 19 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel and runs through Sunday, Feb. 21.

Karsten Wade will be giving the Saturday keynote, and Fedora will be hosting a Fedora Activity Day on Friday. Over the weekend, Fedora will host a booth on the event floor.

Watch next week for a report on the event.

Fedora 12 is here

With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well.

QualityAssurance

In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team^[1].

Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson

↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA

Test Days

There was no Test Day last week. Next week's Test Day^[1] will be on color management^[2]. This significant new feature for Fedora 13 makes it easy to set up color profiles for monitors, scanners and printers, meaning you can rely on seeing the true colors of images from production all the way through to final printing. This is particularly significant for photographers and designers, but a correct color profile can improve anyone's desktop experience, so please come along to make sure the new color management tools get tested on a wide range of hardware. We would particularly appreciate testing from anyone with access to a colorimeter. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-02-18 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel.

If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac^[3].

Weekly meetings

The QA group weekly meeting^[1] was held on 2010-02-08. The full logs are available^[2]. James Laska and Kevin Fenzi arranged to update the list of RSS feeds tracked by the QA IRC bot, zodbot.

James Laska reported that Will Woods and Kamil Paral had arranged a meeting the next day to discuss plans for the AutoQA results database. James also mentioned he had not had time to discuss updating the QA calendar with John Poelstra.

James Laska, Jesse Keating and Adam Williamson discussed the planned Wiki page for 'last known good' Rawhide builds. Jesse clarified the process from the release engineering side, and James planned to document everything in a trac ticket to track the creation of the Wiki page.

James Laska noted that the third automated Rawhide acceptance test point had passed the previous week, and had been marked as a failure due to a bug^[3] resulting in high memory requirements for installation.

Will Woods was not around to provide an AutoQA project update, but had provided a blog post with some information^[4]. Kamil Paral reported that he had not made any progress on rpmguard this week. James Laska passed on a report on installation automation from Liam Li, who had been discussing the best approach for booting with custom kernel parameters with the virtualization team^[5]. On gwt packaging, James reported that he had had feedback from upstream developers about the bundled JARs^[6]. He was aiming to have one package in progress during the week.

Adam Williamson briefly outlined upcoming events, noting the first Alpha test compose was due in the coming week, with installation and desktop validation testing planned. The second Alpha blocker bug meeting was also on the calendar.

The Bugzappers group weekly meeting^[7] was held on 2010-02-09. The full log is available^[8]. Adam Williamson reported that he had sent a draft stock response text for bugs filed against orphaned packages to the mailing list for review^[9]. The group agreed that the draft looked good.

Chris Campbell reported that he was looking into implementing multi-row button capability for the triage Jetpack script, as having a button for each stock response would result in more buttons than it is currently capable of handling. He said he would give another update next week.

Adam Williamson highlighted the upcoming second blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Alpha, and asked group members to elevate any bugs they thought might constitute Alpha blockers. Chris Campbell said he wasn't aware of any really serious nouveau bugs at present. Adam said he would check on intel and radeon bugs.

Edward Kirk reported that he had not yet been able to send out the email to discuss rearranging the weekly meeting time.

Edward Kirk reported for Juan P. Daza on his update of the active triager list^[10]. He had emailed all known triagers and found 23 did not respond (while 56 did). None of those 23 were listed on the active triagers page, so no adjustment would be necessary.

Edward Kirk noted that he was still working on updating the housekeeping procedures for closing blocker tracking bugs for Fedora releases that have already gone out. He expected it would only need some Wiki page updates, and will report next week.

During the open floor period, it became clear that almost all components on the components list^[11] were listed as not requiring help. The group thought this was probably not desired, so Adam Williamson and Edward Kirk promised to look into it.

The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-15 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-16 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Fedora 13 Alpha test compose

Rui He outlined^[1] the upcoming Fedora 13 Alpha test compose validation testing schedule, with the release due 2010-02-11 and desktop and installation validation testing due to run through 2010-02-17. She linked to the installation^[2] and desktop^[3] results matrices, and asked group members to contribute results if they could.

Automated live image testing

Jon Jaroker kindly explained^[1] some work he has been doing on implemented ongoing automated testing of the Fedora live desktop image. His goal is to have an automated testing system which tests both the boot process and some basic desktop functionality using automated scripts, and flags up regressions. Adam Williamson thanked Jon for his work^[2] and suggested he co-ordinate with Adam Miller on live image automation, and consider integrating his work into the AutoQA framework^[3].

Translation

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project^[1].

Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee

↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N

Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks

The software string freeze for Fedora 13 is scheduled for 16th February 2010. Subsequently, the final software translation period starts from 16ht February 2010 and would end on 23rd March 2010^[1].

↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006948.html

Outage on translate.fedoraproject.org

translate.fedoraproject.org underwent an outage of about 15 hours last week, due to a problem with an update that was run on the servers. The problem was fixed with the help of the Fedora Infrastructure team^[1].

↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006961.html

Translators Invited for FreeIPA

On behalf of the FreeIPA team, John Dennis has invited translators to contribute to the FreeIPA project localization^[1]. The project is currently hosted on transifex.net and the team is preparing for an alpha release of version 2. At present there are 120 strings, but the string count is expected to go up in the near future.

↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006963.html

Sponsorship Queue Cleared

Noriko Mizumoto cleared the membership queue for the 'cvsl10n' group, by removing the unapproved requests which did not have a corresponding 'Self Introduction' mail as required by the FLP^[1].

↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006966.html

New Members/Sponsors in FLP

Hajime Taira^[1] returned to the Japanese Translation team and Ben Seo^[2] joined the Korean Translation team. Teguh DC^[3] has been upgraded to a 'Sponsor' role for the Indonesian Translation team.

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team^[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Single-Window Mode GIMP

Valent Turkovic forwarded^[1] to the Design and Desktop list a preview "Can't wait to get my hands on single-windows GIMP!" and a lot of contributors, like Máirín Duffy, showed their interest in this feature^[2] "I want that so bad!" A lot of persuasion^[3] from Valent, started to work^[4] for the package maintainer, Nils Philippsen: "I'm thinking about it, but prefer to wait for a 'real' 2.7.1 release if it won't take too long."

Theming Progress

With only a few days before the deadline, the design concepts for Fedora 13^[1] continued with a number of submissions from Máirín Duffy^[2], Mola Pahnadayan^[3], Hristo Petkov^[4] and Kanza Aman^[5]. Also, Stephen J Smoogen delighted everyone with a beautiful NASA photo^[6]

Fedora Cheat Cube

Juan Rodriguez created^[1] a 'cheat cube' for Fedora^[2] "No longer does using the terminal have to involve memorizing obscure commands, you can always have a fun cube around to remember the important things, like yum commands and navigating with the terminal" which was instantly liked so Kris Thomsen announced a Danish translation^[3] and Konstantinos Antonakoglou a Greek one^[4]

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 12 Security Advisories

gnash-0.8.6-13.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035080.html
gnome-screensaver-2.28.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034904.html

Fedora 11 Security Advisories

gnash-0.8.6-13.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035093.html
kernel-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035070.html
bugzilla-3.2.6-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034977.html

[1] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue213

[2] ttp://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22

[3] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

[4] ttp://planet.fedoraproject.org

[5] ttp://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/4545.html

[6] ttp://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/inkscape-class-day-7/

[7] ttp://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/tip-mock-build-rawhide-packages-on-rhel-5/

[8] ttp://press.redhat.com/2010/02/11/red-hat-enterprise-linux-5-5-beta-released/

[9] ttp://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/12/controlling-guest-cpu-numa-affinity-in-libvirt-with-qemu-kvm-xen/

[10] ttp://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/15/stable-guest-machine-abi-pci-addressing-and-disk-controllers-in-libvirt/

[11] ttp://www.alphatek.info/2010/02/13/install-the-nokia-n900-maemo-5-sdk-on-fedora/

[12] ttp://www.alphatek.info/2010/02/14/maemo-5-sdk-add-repositories-install-qt-and-deploy-our-first-app-in-the-emulator/

[13] ttp://fossdocs.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/turning-a-comma-seperated-list-into-an-itemizedlist/

[14] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

[15] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA

[16] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-02-18_Color_management

[17] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ColorManagement

[18] ttp://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/

[19] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings

[20] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100208

[21] ttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559290

[22] ttp://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/9234.html

[23] ttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2010-February/001809.html

[24] ttp://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit-contributors/browse_thread/thread/fc5713c023919618/f423351722bc7afe

[25] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings

[26] ttp://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-09/fedora-meeting.2010-02-09-15.06.log.html

[27] ttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088369.html

[28] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers

[29] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers

[30] ttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088396.html

[31] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Install_Test_Results

[32] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Desktop_Test_Results

[33] ttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088436.html

[34] ttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088437.html

[35] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA

[36] ttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N

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