FWN/Issue263

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 263 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 263 for the week ending February 16, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

In announcements from the Fedora Project, details of Planet Edited, mass rebuild and mass rebranching status updates, and pointers to Fedora events globally. In Ambassador news, coverage of traffic from the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists, and pointers to the most recent FAmSCo board minutes. In Quality Assurance news, details of the most recent Test Day on FreeIPA v2, and upcoming Test Day on Xfce 4.8, as well as outcomes from an AutoQA workshop in Brno, Test Day SOP improvements, and Fedora 15 Alpha preparations. In Translation news, details of a recent meeting to decision moving the Fedora Translation infrastructure to Transifex.net, a call for contributors to work on Fedora Insight translation, and new members of the Fedora Localization Project. Our issue wraps up with the latest in security advisories for Fedora 13 and 14. Enjoy!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

Fedora Announcement News
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at

Planet Edited is UP!
Andrea Veri on Fri Feb 11 16:07:51 UTC 2011 announced that she was glad to announce that Planet Edited is up! She also added

"Here some bits from the wiki page available at :

Planet Edited was born having one idea in mind: setting up a blog aggregator software that should contain only Fedora-related material and posts. The adjective edited came from the fact that this planet will be maintained and edited by a group of people (the editors), that will make sure appropriate and relevant content gets posted.

Edited is now available at the following URL. It obviously contain no feeds at the moment, but we are now ready to make it rock by adding some fresh new content.

Thanks in advance and see you on Edited!"

Fedora Development News
The development list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.

Acceptable Types of Announcements
 * Policy or process changes that affect developers.
 * Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
 * Tools changes that affect developers.
 * Schedule changes
 * Freeze reminders

Unacceptable Types of Announcements
 * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
 * Discussion
 * Anything else not mentioned above

Mass Rebuild and Mass branching status update
Dennis Gilmore on Thu Feb 10 21:01:28 UTC 2011 announced ,

"The first pass though the mass rebuild has been completed

failures can be found at and the list of all things not built yet at there is ~400 packages that rpm-4.9.0 failed to parse the spec files.

the couple I've looked at so far are due to unsupported macro use.

We have also mass branched everything. you will now need to use bodhi to push updates in.

Thanks for your patience, please bring up any issues that you see."

Fedora Events
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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)

 * North America (NA)
 * Central & South America (LATAM):
 * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
 * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)

Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events

Additional information

 * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
 * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
 * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
 * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
 * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
 * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.

Ambassadors
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project.

Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

Welcome New Ambassadors
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had no new members join.

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
Tristan Santore responded to a thread about a single DVD of Desktop Spins vs 4 CDs of Desktop Spins expressing a personal wish to see dual layer media in line with the availability and affordability of DVD drives with dual layer write capabilities.

Christoph Wickert explained the long delay in obtaining approval for the multi-desktop DVD and informed about the current efforts with the media production company to enable availability in around 3 weeks. In response to questions raised further in the thread, Christoph provided an URL containing details about this effort

Vinzenz Vietzke informed about the availability of OLPC hardware in connection with a Linux event in Souther Germany. Christoph Wickert provided details about those who have an OLPC with them.

Gerold Kassube posted a link to fosdem 2k11 - A film about FOSDEM 2011

Larry Cafiero posted about a 2XL Fedora Ambassadors Polo Shirt being available to Ambassadors in NA in return for a compelling reason as to why the specific Ambassador would receive the shirt

David Ramsey informed about the 2011 RHCP of the Year Awards and, the FreeIPA v2 and XFCE 4.8 test days

Joerg Simon wrote about the role of the Ambassador Group and FAmSCo especially as seen within The Fedora Project. The thread has feedback and suggestions from Ambassadors around the ideas expressed by him.

Harpreet Singh provided an introduction to the Fedora Ambassadors. Danishka Navin pointed to the India list as a place to receive further guidance and help.

Caius Chance posted Minutes of FAmSCo meeting on 2011-02-12

Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
Angel reported on the Linux Boot Campaign 1.0 and, the Fedora 14 Release Party

Nilesh Vaghela reported on the Open Source | Linux | Fedora Installation Workshop at SAL Engineering College, Ahmedabad

Shakthi Kannan reported on the GNUnify 2011 event at Pune, India

Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
Max Spevack reported about a FAmSCo Budget Ticket Triage done along with Pierros Papadeas and status(es) assigned to each ticket

Max Spevack reported about completing work around the current year's budget.

Igor Pires Soares followed up with updating the budget section of the FAmSCo report for January.

Max Spevack further added the updating of the budget through February 2011 with more expenses being filed.

Pierros Papadeas announced adding Harish Pillay to the FAmSCo list as part of his responsibilities as a budget coordinator for APAC

Joerg Simon wrote about the role of the Ambassador Group and FAmSCo especially as seen within The Fedora Project.

QualityAssurance
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page.

Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson

Test Days
No Test Day took place last week due to the delay of the FreeIPA Test Day. This week two Test Days are taking place.

Tuesday 2011-02-15 was FreeIPA v2 Test Day. IPA is an identity server, and 2.0 is a major revision due to land in Fedora 15. The Test Day focused on checking that all the major changes work as intended. A small group of testers attended the event and exposed several issues, which the developers are now working on.

Thursday 2011-02-17 is Xfce 4.8 Test Day, where we are testing out all the new features of this major Xfce release and ensuring there are no regressions. A full report on the event will be printed next week.

AutoQA
Kamil Paral reported that he had conducted an AutoQA workshop at the Developer Conference event in Brno. He also published the sample workshop material.

Test Day SOP improvements
Adam Williamson proposed an update to the Test Day management SOP, adding a paragraph recommending the creation of a 'how to debug' page for the component being tested. This was the result of a suggestion at the previous weekly meeting by Jóhann Guðmundsson.

Fedora 15 Alpha preparation
Preparation for the release of Fedora 15 Alpha began in earnest this week. The first test compose was released and the first blocker review meeting took place. TC1 testing identified some major issues in both installation and desktop areas.

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

Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee

FLP Infrastructure to Move to Transifex.net
Members of the FLP, Fedora Infrastructure, Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith and  Paul Frields met on 15th February 2011 to discuss about the proposal to move the Fedora Translation infrastructure to Transifex.net. It was unanimously accepted that the current infrastructure cannot be maintained at present due to the lack of administrative resources and the move to Transifex.net accepted. Further meetings with the other affected groups - Fedora Devel, Fedora Documentation team have also been scheduled. Dimitris Glezos would be leading the migration effort with other members of the FLP pitching in for the additional tasks.

The migration has been marked as a major priority to be put in place for Fedora 15 Translation. As the string freeze date coincided with the meeting date, there are fears that the translation time may be reduced for the translators.

Concerns were also raised by several members. FLSCo member Noriko and  Runa suggested that an exit plan be also put in place to keep open the option to host the infrastructure on Fedora Servers again in future.

Full meeting log is here.

Insight Translation Proposal
Andrea Veri from the Fedora Insight team has requested volunteers from Fedora Localization Project to help with the translation of the contents on the portal. At present, this content cannot be translated using the Transifex instance on translate.fedoraproject.org due to technical reasons.

Additionally, Andrea also called for contributions from Localization teams, for the new blog aggregator at Planet Edited.

Proposal for a FAS Group for Experienced Translators
Piotr Drąg has put forward a proposal to create a new FAS group for translators with advanced experience, who would be allowed to commit directly into the backend repositories for the Fedora Packages. This would allow members from the FLP to quicky fix L10n related problems.

New Members in FLP
Danny Stieben (German) joined the FLP recently.

Security Advisories
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week.

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

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 14 Security Advisories

 * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-52.1.9.7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054134.html
 * nbd-2.9.20-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054083.html
 * abcm2ps-5.9.21-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054015.html
 * openssl-1.0.0d-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054007.html
 * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-52.1.9.6.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053934.html
 * kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053901.html
 * mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-12.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053899.html

Fedora 13 Security Advisories

 * openoffice.org-3.2.0-12.35.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054137.html
 * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.8.7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054115.html
 * nbd-2.9.20-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054071.html
 * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.8.6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053926.html
 * mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-12.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053903.html
 * postgresql-8.4.7-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053888.html