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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, selected announcements to the Fedora user list, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Community Gaming

Bruno Wolff III announced:

A suggestion was made to have game sessions for the community playing games available in Fedora. A pilot project has been started and the first session will be this Friday (or Saturday depending on timezone).

For background you can find the original request at

A wiki page for this project is at

The first session will start this Friday at 9pm EDT (0100 UTC Saturday). We will be playing bzflag and attempting to use Fedora Talk (x2010) as a social channel, as chatting socially by typing, while playing bzflag seems hard to do.

bzflag is a pretty light, chaotic game that allows for easy dropping in and out. The session will last at least 2 hours, but will go longer if people actually show up and want to keep playing. games1.wolff.to will be set up as a private server, but you will just be able to connect without any special password. Before we start playing we will be using the #fedora-games IRC channel to communicate in case there are problems. If you think it's likely you'll show up you can add you name in the wiki so we know how many people to expect.

The week after we will be running a Wesnoth session, using the in game chat for socializing. That's a much different game and will probably appeal to a different group of people.

After that, it depends on the response both a of players and people willing to sponsor games. At least initially we want to try a lot of different stuff. The first two being at the same time has to do with my schedule. I would hope that other people run game sessions at different times in order to be more accessible to other people.

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Recent Bugzilla Comment Concerning Fedora 11 EOL

John Poelstra announced:

"All open Fedora 11 bugs recently received a comment warning about the upcoming end of life for Fedora 11. This email serves as correction to part of that notification.

Due to an error on my part this warning was sent out earlier than it should have been. The statement "Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11..." is incorrect. The end of life (EOL) for Fedora 11 will be June 18, 2010, which is thirty days after the release of Fedora 13, currently scheduled for May 18, 2010. When Fedora 11 reaches EOL at that time, bugs open for Fedora 11 will be closed as previously described.

For more information on Fedora's policy for maintenance of our releases, please refer to:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle#Maintenance_Schedule

My apologies for any inconvenience or confusion this error may have caused.

John"

Upcoming Fedora IRC Classroom Sessions - 2010-04-26

Kevin Fenzi announced

"The Fedora IRC Classroom has been quiet of late, but thats about to change! We have a number of great classes coming up:

Date and Time (UTC) Class topic and Instructor

27 April, 2010 at 19:00 UTC How to make life awesome for journalists - Joe Brockmeier

29 April, 2010 at 01:00 UTC How to test Fedora Updates - Kevin Fenzi

30 April, 2010 at 12:30 UTC (6:00 PM IST) A Short Tutorial On i18n Through gettext - Naveen Kumar

03 May, 2010 at 13:30 UTC (7:00 PM IST) Introductory workshop on GNU Autotools - Siddhesh Poyarekar

10 May, 2010 at 01:00 UTC Learn about exciting Fedora 13 Features - Kevin Fenzi

See the classroom page ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom ) for more details and information on how to attend classes on IRC, or sign up to teach one!

Hope to see everyone there.

kevin"

Elections: Nominations open Sat 2010-04-24

Paul W. Frields announced,

“With a Fedora release coming soon, it's also time for Fedora Elections. Both the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) will have open seats during this election cycle.

Nominations for these seats open tomorrow, Saturday, April 24, 2010.

You can nominate yourself, or someone else. It's recommended if you intend to nominate someone else that you consult with that person first. The entire election schedule, and other important information for all nominees, is posted on the wiki's main Elections page, and the specific nomination pages for the Board and FESCo

You can also find more information about both these at their main wiki pages.

Please thoughtfully consider how you can best contribute to Fedora by serving on one of these important committees, or encourage someone you know who can make a difference to serve. Thank you!

-- Paul (25 days to Fedora 13!)

Fedora Development News

Outage: Buildsystem/koji - 2010-04-25 14:30 UTC

Mike McGrath announced

There was an outage starting at 2010-04-25 14:30 UTC, which lasted approximately 1 hour.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at or run:

date -d '2010-04-25 14:30 UTC'

Reason for outage:

db3, koji's primary database, was throwing read/write errors on it's underlying storage device. The RSA-II adapter was not showing anything was wrong. Not being able to log in I powercycled the host and it came back up on its own. We'll be keeping an eye on it.

Affected Services:

• Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
• Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/

Unaffected Services:

• BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
• CVS / Source Control
• DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
• Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
• Email system
• Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
• Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
• Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
• Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
• Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
• Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
• Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
• Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
• Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
• Smolt - http://smolts.org/
• Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
• Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
• Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
• Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
• Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Ticket Link:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2118

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

Fedora Events

Fedora events are the 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 (March 2010 to May 2010)

• 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.