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Fedora Weekly News Issue 203
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 203[1] for the week ending November 22, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
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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.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
General
Jonathan Dieter described[1] some of the challenges that were involved in the development of deltarpms.
Richard W.M. Jones shared[2] a couple shell tricks for using and modifying the shell's history in order to save time and work more efficiently.
Greg DeKoenigsberg visited[3] Pittsburgh for the opening of the new Red Hat Computing Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Among the treats was a look at OpenISR[4], the Internet Suspend/Resume project. Sound cool? It is.
Devan Goodwin has "been doing some work recently on cobbler4j, a small Java library for interacting with Cobbler over XMLRPC based on the work done to integrate Cobbler into Spacewalk." [5]
Luke Macken announced[6] that TurboGears 2 is now available in Fedora and EPEL.
Máirín Duffy says: On Tuesday, November 24 there will be a Fedora Interaction Design Hackfest[7]. Anyone interested in learning about Interaction Design or improving the Fedora user experience should join in on IRC.
A number of folks chimed in with thoughts on some recent changes to the PackageKit default permissions in Fedora 12. Seth Vidal explained[8]: "In f12 the default policy for polkit for package kit is to allow users at the desktop to install signed pkgs from repositories enabled on the system." However, shortly thereafter it was announced that the default would change in an updated package. Ankur Sinha linked to the announcement[9] on fedora-devel.
Steven Pritchard shared[10] some further thoughts in a provocatively titled post "Why developers suck as admins".
Greg DeKoenigsberg used the opportunity to discuss[11] "the difference between transparency and communication" in relation to the recent PackageKit changes.
John Poelstra looked[12] at Fedora's Release Criteria now that a Target Audience has been discussed and agreed upon.
Dave Malcolm introduced[13] 2to3c, "a tool to help people port their C python extensions from Python 2 to Python 3."
- ↑ http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/deltarpm-problems-part-i/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/tip-and-in-the-shell/
- ↑ http://gregdek.livejournal.com/56850.html
- ↑ http://isr.cmu.edu/
- ↑ http://rm-rf.ca/blog/introducing-cobbler4j
- ↑ http://lewk.org/blog/TurboGears2-in-Fedora.html
- ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/want-to-learn-design-skills-want-to-help-fedora-fedora-interaction-design-hackfest-tuesday-24-nov/
- ↑ http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-changing-settings/
- ↑ http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/fedora-packagekit-change/
- ↑ http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2009/11/why-developers-suck-as-admins.html
- ↑ http://gregdek.livejournal.com/57105.html
- ↑ http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/fedora-target-audience-amp-release-criteria/
- ↑ http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3935.html
Fedora 12 Roundup
Paul W. Frields[1] and Kulbir Saini[2] answered some of the more common questions to do with the new release.
Máirín Duffy announced[3] that the new Fedora Spins site has gone live[4].
Eric Christensen outlined[5] twelve different types of documentation available with Fedora 12, from Release Notes to Security and Virtualization guides.
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2811
- ↑ http://gofedora.com/news-fedora-12-constantine-released-all-you-need-to-know/
- ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/new-fedora-spins-site-with-fedora-12/
- ↑ http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
- ↑ http://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/11/documenting-fedora-12-or-what-docs.html
Translation
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
Release Notes Translations Updated for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese
Translations for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese have been rebuilt and updated in docs.fedoraproject.org by Ruediger Landmann[1].
Errors in Release Notes for Chinese and German
John J. McDonough reported tag related errors for Traditional & Simplified Chinese[1] and German[2] translations of the Fedora 12 Release Notes. These errors were identified during the nightlt builds of the documents. The German translation error was fixed by Jens Maucher, while the tag errors in the Chinese translations were fixed temporarily by Ruediger Landmann.
Additionaly, John J. McDonough also mentioned that some sections of the translated versions of the Release Notes do not display the translated content in the built documents, inspite of the translations being present in the .po file. Rudi clarified that this is a known issue and often occurs when translated .po files are split and merged with the individual component files as required by Publican[3].
Error in Package Name in the Fedora 12 Release Notes
The name of the multimedia-menus package was transcribed as 'multimedia menus' in the original english version of the Fedora 12 Release Notes that was handed to the Fedora Translation teams. As a result, this was translated into many languages. The maintainer of 'multimedia-menus' Orcan Ogetbill brought forward this issue[1].
SSSD and MC Translation Request
Translation requests have been made to the Fedora Localization Project by the maintainers of System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)[1] and Midnight Commander (MC)[2]. The former is hosted at www.transifex.net to accept translations, since the upstream project requires all patches (inlcuding translations) to be reviewed by the repository validators. SSSD would be string frozen on the 23rd of November 2009.
Midnight Commander currently uses some parts of the Gnome Infrastruture, but uses its own git repository. Suggestions to allow easier translation submissions, include that the project be listed at translate.fedoraproject.org under 'various'[3], hosted on www.transifex.net[4] or be moved to git.gnome.org[5].
- ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00077.html
- ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00109.html
- ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00113.html
- ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00110.html
- ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00114.html
New Members in FLP
Peter V. Khaninyov (Russian)[1], Nikolai Husung (Germany)[2], and Tomasz Szczeszak (Polish)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week.
Security Advisories
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Fedora 12 Security Advisories
- wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00676.html
Fedora 11 Security Advisories
- wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00663.html
- proftpd-1.3.2b-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00642.html
- asterisk-1.6.1.8-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00588.html
Fedora 10 Security Advisories
- wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00660.html
- proftpd-1.3.2b-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00649.html
Virtualization
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @libvirt-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
Interviews
Mel Chua recently interviewed[1] 3 Fedora virtualization luminaries: Richard Jones, David Lutterkort, and Mark McLoughlin. Topics included:
- Richard Jones on guestfish and friends (libguestds and libvirt)
- Mark McLoughlin on virtual upgrades to your virtual machine
- David Lutterkort on "Network scripts: complex no more!"
- How to try out virtualization
- From etherboot to gPXE
- qcow2: now with better performance!
- Virtualization in Fedora: a historical retrospective
- What's Next? Virtualization in F13 and beyond
- When they're not hacking...
Fedora Virtualization List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
Fedora Virtualization Status Report
The latest virt status report[1] from Mark McLoughlin details the status of the latest virtualization related bugs, and relayes behind the scenes drama of "a couple of fire-drills with last-minute serious blocker bugs" as Fedora 12 was about to go out the door.
Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12
Justin Forbes announced[1] "As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the locations have changed.
We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g."
$> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF [rawvirt] name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12 baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 EOF $> yum update
The Virtualization Preview Repository[2] is for people who would like to test the very latest virtualization related packages. This repository is intended primarily as an aid to testing / early experimentation. It is not intended for 'production' deployment.
Libvirt List
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.
New Release libvirt 0.7.4
Daniel Veillard
announced[1]
a new libvirt
release, version 0.7.4.
"The rate of changes doesn't seems to slow down, though this release is
more about incremental improvements, bug fixes and cleanups than major
new features"
New features:
- Implement a node device backend using libudev (David Allan)[2]
- New APIs for checking some object properties (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fully asynchronous monitor I/O processing (Daniel P. Berrange)
- add MAC address based port filtering to qemu (Gerhard Stenzel)
- Support for IPv6 / multiple addresses per interfaces (Laine Stump)
Improvements:
- Far too many to list here.
Read the full list of changes in the release announcement.[3]