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Fedora Weekly News Issue 290

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 290[1] for the week ending January 11, 2012. What follows are some highlights from this issue.


Recent issues of FWN are now being published to Fedora Insight[2]. Insight offers RSS features, multimedia capabilities and more, beyond the mailshot/wiki FWN you have come to know and love. Try it out, and we'd love to hear your feedback!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news@lists.fedoraproject.org

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue290
  2. ↑ http://insight.fedoraproject.org/
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

Announcements

Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from the Fedora Project including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Fedora Events[3].

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Sri Lanka Community and Mailing list

Buddhika Kurera announced[4]:

"Dear Sri Lanka Contributors at the Fedora Project,

I am happy to announce that lk.fc.o[5] is active now. Please contact us so that we can create an account for you and you can start posting. Please join with the Sri Lankan community group[6] so that any request can be made and ideas can be discussed.

Thanks

Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-January/003035.html
  5. ↑ http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/lk-users
  6. ↑ http://lk.fedoracommunity.org

GPG keysigning event at FUDCon Blacksburg 2012 (and CAcert Assurance Event)

Nick Bebout announced[1]:

"We are planning a GPG Key Signing event at FUDCon Blacksburg, which will be held on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 1600 (4pm). If you are interested in participating, please add your info[2] so we can compile a list of participants and keys. So far we have 22 keys signed up and we hope to have even more. That wiki page also has more information about how we will conduct the event.

I intend to print copies of the GPG key list on either Monday or Tuesday, I will probably be waiting until Tuesday, but please sign up as early as you can. I will also publish on my fedorapeople site a gpg signed copy of the key list. The current version[3] and the signature[4] will both be updated after the final list is generated.

If you don't get signed up in time, you can still participate, just bring printed slips with the output of 'gpg --fingerprint YOURKEYID' printed on them to hand out at the event.

We will also be hosting a CAcert assurance event immediately following/in conjunction with the GPG keysigning event. Please see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012_CAcert_Assurance_Event for more information and a place to sign up for that. We will have enough assurers present for you to receive well over the 100 points that you need in order to qualify to become an assurer yourself. Please note that if you intend to participate in the CAcert event, the name in your government issued photo ID must match the name recorded in your CAcert account.

For more information on either event, feel free to contact me at nb at fedoraproject.org or nb at cacert.org

Thanks and see you at FUDCon!

Nick"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-January/003034.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012_GPG_Key_Signing_Event
  3. ↑ http://nb.fedorapeople.org/keys.pdf
  4. ↑ http://nb.fedorapeople.org/keys.pdf.asc

Wireless Access at FUDCon Blacksburg

Robyn Bergeron announced[1]:

"If you are attending FUDCon:Blacksburg next week (January 13-15), you need to request a guest internet access account in order to use the guest wireless access on the Virginia Tech campus. It is requested that you sign up for this account PRIOR to your arrival at FUDCon. Pretty please.

Directions for obtaining wireless access are listed on the FUDCon Blacksburg wiki page[2]

However, since I'm really nice, I'll spell it out in this email as well:

1. Go to the guest wireless registration page, here: https://guest.cns.vt.edu/apps/home.action 2. Enter start date: 1/13/2012, for example 3. Enter end date: 1/15/2012, for example 4. Sponsoring Department: Select "Mathematics" 5. Contact Person: Enter "Ben Williams" (our awesome, gracious host and contact at VT) 6. Purpose: FUDCon 7. Click the "Create Request" button 8. Enter email address and select "New Guest" 9. Fill out form including secret questions, password boxes, and agree to the Acceptable Use Policy 10. Click "Create Account" 11. Receive email in your inbox and verify your request.

Thanks, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone next week in Blacksburg! :)

-Robyn"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-January/003032.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012#Wireless_Registration

FUDCon Blacksburg activity: Try my keyboard!

Toshio Kuratomi announced[1]:

"https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012:_Try_my_keyboard!

Sometimes, even the most hard working programmer/system administrator/graphic designer/packager needs to take a break and do something fun. So this FUDCon, let's plan on taking some time on Friday to do something that's fun for computer enthusiasts of all ages -- try out other people's hardware! Specifically, their keyboards, mice, graphics tablets, and other human to computer input devices.

In typical barcamp style, the devices present will depend on the attendees. I'll be bringing a couple of mechanical switch keyboards (yes, they still make those ;-) and some of the design team members will be bringing some graphics tablets. If anyone has an IBM Model M, a Kinesis Pro, an MS explorer trackball, or any other input device that feels "just right" to you we'd love to have you bring it along to share (and sign up on the wiki so we know to track you down when the time is right.)

-Toshio"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-January/003033.html

Fedora Development News

The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.

Acceptable Types of Announcements

Unacceptable Types of Announcements

  1. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
Packages with inactive owners orphaned and inactive comaintainers removed

Toshio Kuratomi announced[1]:

"As part of the announced cleanup after the mass password and ssh key reset, packages that had owners who were inactive at this time were orphaned. comaintainer who were inactive were likewise removed from packages.

The list of orphaned packages is here:

The list of packages that lsot comaintainers is here:

The perl-* packages owned by cweyl were reassigned ownership to mmaslano, one of the comaintainers under the assumption that this was what the perl team would desire. If that assumption was wrong, some of those packages may be orphaned in the next few days as well:

The ticket with all the details is here:

-Toshio"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-January/000879.html

Inactive package maintainers cleanup on 2012-01-10

Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:

"Greetings.

Last year we asked everyone to change their fedora account system password and upload a new ssh public key. The deadline for this was 2011-11-30. Those who had not uploaded a new key or changed their password were marked 'inactive' in the fedora account system.

Some subset of those inactive users were/are package maintainers. On 2012-01-10, we are going to remove these inactive users from package acls. This will result in some packages being orphaned and available for other maintainers. Any packages not owned prior to Feature Freeze for Fedora 17 (2012-02-07) will be retired.

A full list of users and packages and acls affected as of 2012-01-06 can be found at:

If you know a user who is currently inactive and affected by this process and have a way to contact them, please ask them to change their password and upload a new ssh key and they will continue to hold their package acls.

More information:

kevin"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-January/000876.html

Fedora Events

The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (December 2011 - May 2012)

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28December_2011_-_February_2012.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28January_2012_-_March_2012.29
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28December_2011_-_February_2012.29_2

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents

Additional information

Planet Fedora

This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FudCon Pune 2011

Kishan Goyal posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune[1].

Joerg Simon posted pictures[2] of the event.

Izhar Firdaus wrote about his experience[3] at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.

Suchakra also blogged on Fudcon Pune[4].

Kushal Das posted photos[5] of the event to his blog.

Fedora Community

The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.

Juanjo Martinez blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"[6].

General

Adam Williamson posted about [7]starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.

  1. ↑ http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2
  2. ↑ http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html
  3. ↑ http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html
  4. ↑ http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/
  5. ↑ http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/
  6. ↑ http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/
  7. ↑ http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/

Marketing

In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project for the last week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal V. Calarco

We are looking for a new writer to take up the weekly Marketing beat. If you are interested, drop a note to one of the FWN editors!

MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly delicious Marketing Meeting Minutes are here!

Robyn Bergeron announced[1] the availability of the latest Marketing team minutes

"Greetings, Marketeers!

F15 goodness is well underway. If you're interested in picking up anything on the schedule, including doing a feature profile or want to start digging in on one page release notes, please let us know!

Notes from the meeting are below.

See you next week!

Minutes[2]

Full logs[3]"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013755.html
  2. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marketing.2011-03-22-20.03.html
  3. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marketing.2011-03-22-20.03.log.html

SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future

Clint Savage discussed[1] strategies for making the "SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future" more universal to FAmNA events.

"As you probably know, I've been hanging around Fedora for a few years now. I helped improve the events that Fedora attends by creating the Fedora EventBox. It's been going really well, but this week, I saw a big improvement because of just a few people at SxSW. I would like to thank Mo, Emily, Spot, Jared and anyone else who helped make the booththere awesome!

. . .

But there's more we can do with this, and that's where I think the value lies. For one, it is cool that each participant get's a nice little card printed right there with a QR code so they can go retrieve it. But it would also be nice to let them share their photos on social networking sites like Facebook, identi.ca, foursquare, twitter, etc. I can also see gaining contributors from this concept, in that they are now 'part' of Fedora's legacy. Maybe having them show up on the FedoraProject front page when an event is happening? I seriously think that this is stuff that everyone in Fedora would love."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013744.html

Ambassadors

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Buddhika Kurera and Richard A Vijay
For period of days starting from 21 December 2011 to 31 December 2011 (10hrs GMT+5:30) [2]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/


Fedora Ambassadors Regional Meeting Minutes

Fedora Ambassadors Regional meeting Page[1]

Meeting minutes for 2011-12-24 [2]

Meeting minutes for 2011-12-28 [3]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-12-24
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-12-28

Beat this week

Headlines from mailing lists

Welcome New Ambassadors

On behalf of all our Fedora Community and Ambassadors, We are pleased to Welcome our newly sponsored Ambassador group members:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chanchito from the USA mentored by Mark Terranova

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hlima from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Erheiner from Guatemala mentored by Neville A. Cross

We Congratulate them on their success with mentoring program and wish them all success in their endeavour to help Fedora.

Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team.

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

[1]

[2]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]


FAmSCo Meeting

[19]

[20]

[21]

Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list

[22]

[23]

[24]

[25]

Regional Meeting Minutes

[26]

[27]

Meeting Reminders

[28]

[29]

[30]

Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic

No news.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018709.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018709.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018716.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018734.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018735.html
  6. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018736.html
  7. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018743.html
  8. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018745.html
  9. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018746.html
  10. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018750.html
  11. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018752.html
  12. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018754.html
  13. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018757.html
  14. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018758.html
  15. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html
  16. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html
  17. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018770.html
  18. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018775.html
  19. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018716.html
  20. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018746.html
  21. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html
  22. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018752.html
  23. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018754.html
  24. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018757.html
  25. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018770.html
  26. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018734.html
  27. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018761.html
  28. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018745.html
  29. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018750.html
  30. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-December/018775.html

Developments

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the @fedora-devel mailing list are summarized.

Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley

Would You Like to Write This Beat ?

Following this issue (FWN#178) I will, with regret, no longer be covering the @fedora-devel list. If you are interested in writing this weekly summary of the deeds and doings on the list then please contact fedora-news-list@redhat.com or Pascal Calarco. A short overview of what you may need to do can be obtained by reading the workflow[1] section of the wiki. The @fedora-news list is also extremely open and helpful. Joining[2] the News Project is quite straightforward.

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/WorkFlow
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/NewsProject/Join

Is gNaughty a Hot Babe ?

Rahul Sundaram posted[1] the results of a survey conducted, primarily on @fedora-list and on the forums, to discover which non-repository-packaged software Fedora consumers were using.

One interesting point is that CMUCL[2] was revealed[3] to be only available for 32-bit systems. However what got people really excited was[4] Rahul's question about what to do concerning the gNaughty package. Its sole purpose seemed[5] to be downloading pornography. Rahul referenced the hot-babe CPU monitor which enjoyed controversy in Debian packaging circles due to its use of female nudity. Rahul wanted to find out "[...] is this allowed in Fedora?"

Amusingly a good deal of the controversy focused on whether the content was freely redistributable, but a predictable moral angle was raised[6] by Muayyad AlSadi who asked for help in producing a spin which removed content deemed objectionable. Muayyad is a Jordanian developer who has been producing an Arabic-localized Fedora spin named "Ojuba" for some time. Muayyad sought a way to make identifying and tagging packages easier to facilitate this spin. Bill Nottingham was[7] skeptical about the chances of tags keeping meaning unless there was some sort of review board. Equally predictable was[8] the reaction typified by Seth Vidal which resisted any attempt to restrict packages according to standards which had nothing to do with licensing or patent issues. Mathieu Bridon thought[9] that the creation of a wiki-page by Muayyad would allow anyone interested in co-ordinating work on "Inappropriate Content" to just go ahead and do it without dragging in bureaucracy.

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02071.html
  2. ↑ One of the Common Lisp implementations: http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
  3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02088.html
  4. ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02136.html
  5. ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02203.html
  6. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02242.html
  7. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02312.html
  8. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02295.html
  9. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02355.html

Chrome9 Vx800 Graphics Support on LiveUSB

Kristaps Viesalgs asked[1] for help in getting the Fedora Live USB to boot correctly on a machine using a Via Vx800 "Chrome9" GPU. Kristaps had some success with the latest upstream version (from their subversion repository) and asked: "Is there any brutal option how to properly boot X with vesa driver, install Fedora, then make openchrome svn installation? Is Fedora planning to make for VIA graphic chipset autoconfiguration utility?"

Adam Jackson asked[2] for a more specific bug report because the chip should be supported. He preferred not to ship an autoconfiguration utility instead of just getting the driver correct. Similar points were made by Adam Williamson and [[User:|Xavier Bachelot]]. The latter asked[3] any interested developers to help out the openchrome project in both the 2D and 3D(Gallium) sides.

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02146.html
  2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02154.html
  3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02163.html

Who Wants a Pony?

Kushal Das promised[1] a pony to anyone that would take the trouble to review[2] one of his packages.

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02139.html
  2. ↑ http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503021

Firestarter Retired as Unportable to PolicyKit

Adam Miller asked[1] whether he should just retire the Firestarter[2] package for which he had recently become the maintainer. His query was based on the recent filing of RFEs to integrate Firestarter with PolicyKit. These suggested to Adam that a large amount of work would be needed due to the lack of any upstream activity for four years and the need to grok PolicyKit.

Following confirmation from Rahul Sundaram and Seth Vidal a decision was made[3] by Adam: "I would honestly rather retire the package than do a WONTFIX, if the project as a whole is going the direction of PolicyKit and upstream is dead then I don't want to keep old and busted cruft around the repositories as Fedora continues to look towards the future."

A further suggestion from "Cry" prompted[4] Adam to start filing RFEs against system-config-firewall for any features present in Firestarter but missing in system-config-firewall.

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02089.html
  2. ↑ Firestarter is a firewall configuration GUI
  3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02094.html
  4. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02122.html

Russian Fedora ?

When Peter Lemenkov asked[1] about the idea of creating a Fedora Foundation outside of the U.S.A. the usual arguments from the past few years were rehashed. Kevin Kofler gave[2] an able summary why this would still present Red Hat with a problem.

An assertion by [[User:|Alexey Torkhov]] that there existed[3] a Red Hat-sanctioned "RussianFedora" spin which contained mp3 codecs and other material excluded from the actual Fedora Project repositories drew demands for proof from Rahul Sundaram.

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02013.html
  2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02025.html
  3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02390.html

Will FESCo Revisit Kmods ?

A discussion of why VirtualBox will not be a feature due to its code not yet heading upstream and consequently remaining as kmods drew a statement of support from Kevin Kofler for reverting the current banning of kmods should he become a FESCo member. Upon request from Richard W.M. Jones for a dispassionate summary of the reasons to avoid kmods drew[1] a concise response from Seth Vidal.

Adam Williamson and Matt Domsch (Dell's DKMS mastermind) kicked[2] some ideas back and forth over the advantages of akmods versus kmods.

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02254.html
  2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02368.html

Upgrade from Fedora 10 to Rawhide (Fedora 11)

Following a report from Uwe Kiewel that a 
yum upgrade
had spewed all sorts of errors the supported methods for upgrades were re-stated[1] by Adam Williamson: "[I]f you talk to the people most involved in implementing it (Seth) and testing it (Will) they will tell you that doing live upgrades via yum can't really ever be 100% safe for various reasons, but preupgrade can get very close and is useful in all the same cases. So their position is, we support preupgrade, we don't support yum. If yum works, great, if it doesn't, you can bug people to fix whatever it stopping it working, but it's not 'required' by any policy or guideline."
  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02041.html

Advisory Board

In this section, we cover discussion in Fedora Advisory Board.

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board

Contributing Writer: MichaelLarabel

Headline

Story

Documentation

In this section, we cover the Fedora Documentation Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

Contributing Writer: Jason Taylor

Fedora Content Management System (CMS)

There has been a need for a CMS within the project and there will soon be a decision made in this regard. Karsten posted[0] the reasoning behind moving to a CMS[1] and the need for people with CMS administration experience to lend a hand.

[0] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-January/msg00077.html

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CMS_solution_for_Fedora_Project_websites#Background

Translation

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

Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N

Translation Credit Loss Problem Resolved

A major issue related to the loss[1] of Translator Credits in modules submitted via transifex.net has been resolved by the Transifex development team[2]. The problem had also been escalated to the Fedora Legal team[3][4].


  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue264#Copyright_Information_and_Comments_Deleted_from_.PO_files_on_transifex.net
  2. ↑ http://blog.transifex.net/2011/05/transifex-net-update-may-25/
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008974.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-May/001622.html

Autotranslate Feature Disabled for Fedora Modules on Transifex

The Autotranslate feature on transifex.net has been disabled for Fedora modules in view of a possible conflict with the Terms of Usage of the Google Translated API that was being used for the feature[1].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-May/001621.html

FPCA Signing on Transifex.net

All participants to the Fedora Localization Project are required to sign[1] the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA) at https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora/cla/ in addition to signing it on the Fedora Account System[2]

The last date to sign the FPCA is June 17th 2011

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008993.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002960.html

Fedora Documentation and Websites missing for F15

A number of Fedora Documentation modules[1] and Fedora Websites[2] modules were not available for translation for Fedora 15 as they could not be migrated to transifex.net before the release. However, translation can be continued for some of these modules which are being gradually migrated by the writers to transifex.net.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008971.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008990.html

New Members and Teams in FLP

Cindy Ludwig (German)[1], Hung Tran (Vietnamese)[2], Tarun Kumar (Hindi)[3], Anurag Garg (Hindi)[4], Hugo Jiménez Hernández (Spanish)[5], Goran Rakic (Serbian)[6], Nuno Martins (Portuguese)[7], Ricardo Gyorfy (Brazilian Portuguese)[8], Ivan Pomykacz (Czech) [9], Roman Spirgi (German)[10], Florian Masuth (German)[11] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently.


  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008891.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008894.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008895.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008904.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008916.html
  6. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008919.html
  7. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008924.html
  8. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008925.html
  9. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008972.html
  10. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008988.html
  11. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008989.html

Infrastructure

This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-infrastructure-list

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure

Contributing Writer: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

Intrusion update

Mike McGrath sent a link [1] to the list about the intrusion which was sent to the fedora-announce-list earlier.[2]

Mike said that he was waiting to discuss authentication mechanisms for the fedora-servers, Since passwords+ssh keys are not the most secure authentication mechanism. Also it seems that fedora does not have the budget for any RSA token like system for authentication.

There was a lot of discussion on this thread, with various people proposing different authentication mechanisms which could be used.

DennisGilmore started a similar thread about Auth Mechanims[3] on which he discussed using etoken or Yubikey for authentication. It was a two factor authentication and therefore was more secure than passphrase or ssh keys.

  1. ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00010.html
  2. ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg00277.html
  3. ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg00294.html

Design

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

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

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

FUDCon T-shirt

Emily Dirsh proposed[1] a T-shirt design for the Tempe FUDCon "It's inspired by the art of the Hohokam who once lived in the area" and after an initial warm receive[2] from Máirín Duffy "Wow that is **gorgeous**, I love it! I would love a shirt with that design in it!" she followed[3] with a couple of variations "Ooh, I love the idea of a navy shirt! Yeah, the advantage to a single-color design is it's very easy to adjust the color." Jef van Schendel also proposed[4] a few remixes "Here's a few quick and dirty stabs at a dark shirt version".

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003702.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003703.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003705.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003704.html

Design Team Blog

Máirín Duffy announced[1] a new communication channel for the team "Thanks to Sijis we now have a team blog!! (Yay!!)" and she invited authors to join "Some members of the design team we couldn't add to the blog because their accounts weren't in the Fedora blogs system. If you'd like to be added, please log in to Fedora blogs to create your account, and let me know you've done it so I can request your account be added."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003716.html

Daily Package

In this section, we recap the packages that have been highlighted as a Fedora Daily Package.

http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/

Contributing Writer: ChrisTyler

Headline

Story

Security Week

In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.

Contributing Writer: JoshBressers

Phrack 66

Phrack 66[1] came out this week. If you're not aware, Phrack is the longest running hacker zine, it's impressive that after more than 20 years, it's still going.

Firefox 3.0.11

Yet another security update for Firefox was released, be sure to update, it's important. [2]

  1. ↑ http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=66
  2. ↑ http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.11

Security Advisories

In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period January 4, 2012 - January 11, 2012.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 16 Security Advisories

Fedora 15 Security Advisories

Events and Meetings

In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from various Projects and SIGs.

Contributing Writer: ThomasChung

Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2008-04-08

Fedora Community Architecture Meeting 2008-04-07

Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-11

Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2008-MM-DD

Fedora Marketing Meeting 2008-MM-DD

Fedora Documentation Steering Committee Meeting 2008-MM-DD

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-10

Fedora Infrastructure Meeting 2008-04-10

Fedora Localization/Translation Meeting 2008-MM-DD

Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2008-04-08

Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2008-04-07

Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting 2008-MM-DD

Fedora Bug Zappers Meeting 2008-MM-DD

Fedora SIG EPEL Report Week NN/2008

Fedora SIG KDE Meeting 2008-04-08

Fedora SIG Store Meeting 2008-MM-DD

Fedora SIG Astronomy Meeting 2008-MM-DD

Ask Fedora

In this section, we answer general questions from Fedora community. Send your questions to askfedora AT fedoraproject.org and Fedora News Team will bring you answers from the Fedora Developers and Contributors to selected number of questions every week as part of our weekly news report. Please indicate if you do not wish your name and/or email address to be published.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AskFedora

Writers: Paul W Frields, Rahul Sundaram

What is the official Fedora policy on Mono?

Arthur Pemberton asked: "Fedora traditionally holds fairly strict guidelines for inclusion of software, and the pursuit of Free Software. As such I consider their decisions on such things to be quite important. With that in mind, I would like to ask: what is the official Fedora policy on Mono? Specifically in terms to its FOSS nature and legality."

Paul W Frields, Fedora Project Leader responds:

Until certain ambiguities such as those concerning Mono's patent licensing and redistribution are resolved, there is no formal policy that I'm aware of. We have concerns which are being researched, and any official policy would likely come through Fedora Legal and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. The substitution of Gnote for Tomboy on the Desktop Live image and in the default installation for Fedora 12 reduces package load in the standard Fedora Desktop Live image, but for now Mono remains in the Fedora repositories.

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