Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-Feb-13

Core

 * ChristopherAillon - Just a note that all the dependencies of gstreamer08 are gone from Core, and we will be removing gstreamer08 soon from Core.

Extras

 * New packages added to Fedora Extras: perl-Font-TTF, gnomebaker, xpilot-ng, commoncpp2, cacti, perl-Math-GMP, perl-Tie-EncryptedHash, perl-Crypt-DSA, sblim-wbemcli, sblim-testsuite, sblim-cmpi-devel, perl-Log-Log4perl, sblim-cmpi-devel, docbook2X, evas, bzr, freehdl, ecore, gnolin
 * Major Topics in this weeks FESCo  meeting :
 * Fedora Extras RPMs should have Vendor and Packager
 * Mass rebuild of Extras for FC5
 * Encourage Extras reviews
 * Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
 * Review days
 * EOL Policy for FE
 * Highlights from fedora-extras-list
 * FE package status Tue Feb 7 2006 -- see also   this new page in the wiki
 * Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras development
 * extras maintainence
 * Summary from yesterdays FESCo-Meeting
 * Circular dependencies

Ambassadors & Marketing

 * ThomasChung - Fedora Project participation at  Southern California Linux Expo  was successful. WarrenTogami, EricHattemer and ThomasChung were present at the Fedora Booth for two days (Feb 11-12) to answer any question on Fedora Project as well as distributing Fedora Project Overview Handouts, Fedora Core 4 DVDs and Fedora Project T-Shirts.
 * ThomasChung - WarrenTogami also gave a talk on what Fedora is about, why it is important to the future of Open Source Software, and how you can get involved. The presentation slides are available in   Fedora Presentations  page.
 * ChristopherBlizzard, GregDeKoenigsberg, RahulSundaram, SankarshanMukhopadhyay, SatishMohan and various people from the Red Hat Banglore Engineering team were part of FUDCon Delhi 2006   as speakers and booth organisers.   Fedora Presentations  are available in the wiki now. Fedora won the best community distribution LFY awards. Overall a very exciting and informative conference for everyone involved.

Kadischi

 * EssienIta posted a patch for install-boot.sh to support rhgb in his mail


 * ChitleshGoorah announced in his blog that ["Kadischi"]  is tuned for Fedora Core 5 Test 2. He also described briefly about the patches related to Fedora Core 5 Test 2.


 * The wiki page  Kadischi/Development  which applies only to FC5 Test platform testers describes how ["Kadischi"]  can be run in order to build Fedora Core 5 Test 2 based LiveCDs


 * A new  contributor  has joined in the team. He is EssienIta from Nigeria. Welcome, on behalf of the other   contributors.

L10N

 * Documentation team is preparing PO based Translation Method for documentation.

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