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==Announcements==
==Announcements==


In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements<ref>
Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from the Fedora Project including general announcements<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/</ref>, development announcements<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/</ref> and Fedora Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events</ref>.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/</ref>, development announcements<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/</ref> and Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events</ref>.


Contributing Writer: [[User:Rashadul|Rashadul Islam]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:rashadul|Rashadul Islam]]


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=== Fedora Announcement News ===
===Breaking News of the Week and Month===
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce</ref>


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====[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines==== 
 
* Contributor: [[User:Spot|Tom Callaway]<ref>Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Wed Aug 1 19:28:57 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003098.html</ref>
 
"A new section has been added to the SysV Initscripts section, discussing
the proper use of subsys locking. Even though Fedora packages should no
longer be using SysV Initscripts as a primary service mechanism, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and EPEL do. Additionally,
Red Hat points partners to the Fedora Guidelines when they build for RHEL.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#Careful_Handling_of_.2Fvar.2Flock.2Fsubsys.2F.3Cservice_name.3E_mechanism</ref>
 
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The review guidelines now reflect the use of sha256sum (instead of
md5sum) to confirm upstream source integrity.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines#Things_To_Check_On_Review</ref>
 
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The PHP Packaging guidelines have been updated to include guidance about
when it is appropriate to have an explicit Requires on httpd & mod_php,
how to handle explicit Requires on PHP extensions, and how to handle a
Requires for a minimum PHP version.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Apache_requirement</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Extensions_Requires</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Requiring_a_Minimum_PHP_version</ref>
 
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A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging Guidelines,
covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_of_Additional_RPM_Macros</ref>
 
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A new section on the Documentation= field in systemd unit files (F17+)
has been added.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Documentation_field</ref>


====Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!====
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[[User:Ausil|Dennis Gilmore]] on Tue Apr 19 14:50:03 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-April/002950.html</ref>,


"The clock is ticking. The days are counting down. The release of  
A short section on the Group tag in Fedora packages has been added.
Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock," is scheduled for release in late
All current versions of Fedora (and their respective RPM versions) treat
May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating
the Group tag as optional. Packages may include a Group: field for
system that continues to deliver innovative features to users
compatibility with EPEL, but are not required to do so.
worldwide, with a new release every six months.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Group_tag</ref>


We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release
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of Fedora 15.


"I beta one American dollar that you will love this release!"
The RHEL conditionalization has been removed from the Python3 example
spec file, as it is no longer valid.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_spec_file</ref>


Come see why we love Fedora so much. We are betting you will,
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too. Download it now: <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?wkanF15b</ref>


=====What is the Beta Release?=====
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).


The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 15. Only
'''Many thanks to Remi Collet, David Malcolm, Vit Ondruch, Lennart Poettering, Michael Scherer, Dave Sullivan, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.'''
critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general
release of Fedora 15 in May. We invite you to join us in making
Fedora 15 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing
your valuable feedback.


Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may still
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about can be seen on
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
the Common F15 bugs page, at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs.
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>"


If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets
Enclosure: Here is one late change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003100.html</ref>
fixed before release by reporting your discovery at
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd</ref>
<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/</ref> Thank you!
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>


=====Features=====
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'''Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to:'''
====FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders==== 


* Gnome Shell and the Gnome 3 desktop. Gnome 3 is the next major
* Contributor: Fedora Project Leader-[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]<ref>rbergero at redhat.com</ref>
version of the Gnome desktop. After many years of a largely
* Posted Date: Fri Aug 3 17:00:53 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003099.html</ref>
unchanged Gnome 2.x experience, GNOME 3 brings a fresh look
and feel with GNOME Shell.


* LibreOffice Productivity Suite. LibreOffice is a fork of
"Greetings! (...or perhaps I should say.... bonjour!)
OpenOffice, with the support of the OpenOffice.org community.  
All of the applications you know and love are still there,
including apps for spreadsheets, document creation, and presentations.


* Desktop environments a-plenty. The Xfce and LXDE spins have
I'd like to share a few reminders and announcements regarding the
been updated, and the Fedora Spins SIG has other offerings
upcoming '''FUDCon in Paris, France, on October 13-15, 2012'''.
tailored to a wide variety of user needs.  


'''Sysadmins will love features such as:'''
If you are planning to attend FUDCon and need a travel subsidy to do so,
the ticketing system is now open for those requests.  Requests will be
accepted through August 15, 2012. Please note that funding requests
without a ticket will not be considered. Preference will be given to
attendees from the EMEA region who are actively contributing to Fedora,
and have detailed their participation plans for FUDCon in their request.


* Appliance building. BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual
To place a subsidy request, please follow these steps:
machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files
for various virtual platforms, and is great for building
appliances for use in a Cloud environment.


* Dynamic Firewall. The dynamic firewall mode aims to make it
1: Pre-register at
possible to change firewall settings without the need to restart
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012#Pre-registration</ref> - and
the firewall and to make persistent connections possible.  
put an X in the $$$ column
2: Read about the funding request process and place a funding request
ticket in the FUDCon-planning ticket tracker here:
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest</ref>


'''Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including:'''
Additionally, a few notes regarding the hotel in Paris:


* Updates to popular languages. Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and
There are other events in Paris during this time period; most notably,
OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15.
our first day of FUDCon will be taking place at the Open World Forum
conference, on the day in which the public is encouraged to participate
in and learn about open source projects. OWF had nearly 2000 attendees
last year. Accordingly, rooms might be in short supply as we approach
FUDCon; please, book your hotel as soon as possible, not only for
affordability purposes, but also so that you have a bed to sleep in. :)


* Project tooling. Maven 3 is a Java project management, project
We currently have a rate of EUR81 per night at the ibis Paris La Vilette
comprehension, and build system tool.
Cite des Sciencesfor the nights of the 12th, 13th, and 14th of October. 
However, this rate will expire at the end of August, and any remaining
rooms in our block will expire.


* Compiling and debugging. GDB gets an update to 7.3, and GCC
For instructions on booking your hotel, please read the Lodging/Hotel
4.6 is included. (Fedora 15 has also been rebuilt using GCC 4.6!)
section of the FUDCon: Paris wiki:
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012#Lodging_.2F_Hotel</ref>"
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And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of
====Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org==== 
all the new features in Fedora 15 is available here:
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList</ref>


We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
* Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Kevin|Kevin Fenzi ]<ref>kevin at scrye.com</ref>
<ref>http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/</ref>
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 20:31:24 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003101.html</ref>


=====Contributing=====
"I'm happy to announce the general availability of our
status.fedoraproject.org site.


For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report
This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to
bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release
check on the status of services provided by Fedora Infrastructure.
notes at <ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org</ref>.


There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
The site auto reloads every minute, and also provides a rss feed at
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
<ref>http://status.fedoraproject.org/changes.rss of any changes</ref>.
updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional
activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora
users worldwide. To get started, visit <ref>http://join.fedoraproject.org</ref> today!"


If you run into a problem or issue that is not reflected at
status.fedoraproject.org, please do report it to us in #fedora-admin on
irc.freenode.net or via ticket at
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/newticket</ref>
We update the site status information manually so we need to be aware
of the issue in order to keep the site accurate.
As with everything in Fedora Infrastructure, this application is open
source. Source is available from:
<ref>http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-status.git</ref>
and is released under a '''GPLv2+ license'''.
This application is hosted at the link<ref>https://openshift.redhat.com</ref> to avoid any
issues with outages in our infrastructure affecting status reporting. "
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====Beats are open!====
* Contributor: Fedora Docs Leader-[[User:Bcotton|Ben Cotton]<ref>kevin at scrye.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Tue Aug 28 15:35:59 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-August/014540.html</ref>
"The Release Notes beats for Fedora 18 are now open:
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats</ref>
If you're looking for a way to dip your toes in the water, so to
speak, writing a beat is a great way to get started. If you're a
regular, don't forget about the checkBeat program:
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-March/014127.html</ref>
As a reminder, the wiki drafts of beats are due on 12 September."


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====Outage: Fedora Account System (fas01) - 2011-04-21 20:00 UTC====
====New bodhi release in production====
 
* Contributor: [[User:Lmacken|Luke Macken ]<ref>lmacken at redhat.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 9 21:53:41 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000961.html</ref>
 
"A new release of Bodhi has just been deployed to production.
<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates</ref>
 
Bugs and enhancement requests can be filed here:
<ref>http://bodhi.fedorahosted.org</ref>
 
Major changes in bodhi 0.9.2
---------------------------------
 
* fedmsg support! Bodhi now fires off messages for various events that occur. Join #fedora-fedmsg to see it in action. (Ralph Bean)
 
* Re-organized the links on the front page, and link to the new Update Feedback Guidelines
 
* The submitter of an update can no longer effect the karma (Till Maas)


Kevin Fenzi on Mon Apr 18 22:59:42 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-April/000778.html</ref>,
* Fix duplicate status change email notifications. (Till Maas)


"There will be an outage starting at 2011-04-21 20:00 UTC, which will last
* Mention age of updates in testing digest mails (Till Maas)
approximately 1 hour.


To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
* Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails (Till Maas)
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
or run:


date -d '2011-04-21 20:00 UTC'
* Add X-Bodhi mail headers (Till Maas)


=====Reason for outage:=====
* Gracefully handle private bugs (Cole Robinson)


The fas01 account system machine will be moving to new hardware.
* Set the default request for new updates to 'testing' in the web form
This outage may only affect small parts of the Account system
as backup servers should handle the load.


=====Affected Services:=====
* Fix a bug in our critpath policy that occurs when a critical path update to a pre-release reaches the minimum amount of time in testing, but is unable to push to stable.


Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
* Fixed the input box alignment in the login box (Kalpa Welivitigoda)


=====Unaffected Services:=====


* Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Full list of changes since 0.8.7
* Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
--------------------------------
* BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
* Email system
* Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
* Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
* Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
* Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
* Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
* GIT / Source Control - pkgs.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:=====
Kalpa Welivitigoda (1):
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2734</ref>
      fixed input box alignment issue in login box #579


=====Contact Information:=====
Luke Macken (25):
      Convert our tags_url to a byte string before passing it to urlgrabber.
      Add a script to detect when older builds become the 'latest' in stable
      Update our test suite to reproduce ticket [ticket:683]
      Fix a bug in our critpath policy ([ticket:683]).
      Set the default request for new updates to 'testing'
      Clean up EOL buildroot overrides in our rmrelease tool (bz#818617)
      Fix a busted unit test (test_push_EPEL_critpath_before_tested)
      Add pkg_resources __requires__ hacks to bodhi tools to mitigate version
conflicts
      Handle the case where a release doesn't have any overrides
      Change our X-Bodhi-Update-Release header to use the short name
      Apply a modified patch from Cole Robinson to gracefully handle private bugs (#639605)
      Update our unit tests to assume submitters cannot alter karma
      Merge branch 'bodhi1-fedmsg' into feature/bodhi1-fedmsg
      Merge branch 'feature/bodhi1-fedmsg' into develop
      Fix a typo in the metrics tool
      Fix a typo in the new mail headers
      Re-organize our links, and add one to the new update feedback guidelines
      Clean up stray buildroot overrides
      Version bump for 0.9.2
      Our build script uses bz2
      Merge branch 'release/0.9.2'


Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."
Mathieu Bridon (6):
      Have bodhi-init create all the tables
      masher: Fix the comparison
      masher: Reuse variable
      setup: Fix the Turbogears version requirement
      Don't version control auto-generated files
      setup: Add missing dependencies
 
Ralph Bean (19):
      Sending messages with fedmsg.
      No longer using fedmsg schema/validation.
      fedmsg.ini -> fedmsg-config.py
      More detail in the update.complete message.
      More concise send_message calls.
      Ignore dev db.
      Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
      Updates for the latest fedmsg.  Getting tests passing.
      Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
      Ignore mashing fedora file.
      Fixed what I think is a regression in login template.
      Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
      Update to test fedmsg config.  Work with both tests and under WSGI.
      Version bump for fedmsg in staging.
      Only send the comment with a comment is added, not the whole update.
      Using a "bodhi" user/group for mod_wsgi.
      fedmsg+ssl changes to bodhi.spec.
      Use modern fedmsg config format.
      Disable message signing for bodhi tests.
 
Till Maas (8):
      Add X-Bodhi mail headers
      Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails
      Mention age of updates in testing digest mails
      Use format string instead of string concatenation
      Import exceptions from sqlite3
      Remove files used by mercurial
      model.py: Change karma from Submitter to 0
      Fix notification on automatic status change"


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====Outage: BuildSystem: Bodhi, Koji, Pkgs - 2011-04-20 20:00 UTC====  
====Build F-18 collection packages for all language translators====


Kevin Fenzi on Tue Apr 19 02:57:51 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-April/000779.html</ref>,
* Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Noriko|Noriko Mizumoto]<ref>noriko.mizumoto at gmail.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 09:17:01 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000968.html</ref>


"There will be an outage starting at 2011-04-20 20:00 UTC, which will last
"Hi Fedora package maintainers
approximately 2 hours.


To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
Please build and push your package with latest translation file (e.g.
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
pull from Transifex/Zanata) for L10N QA test BY THIS FRIDAY 2012-08-31.
or run:
Your packages with latest translation will be composed into test live
image on 3-Sep Monday. Then various language translators worldwide will
test the image in their own languages. Any issue will be filed as bug.
This is only one chance for translators to check and modify Localization
quality of your packages by checking UI, and we need your help.


date -d '2011-04-20 20:00 UTC'
Thank you so much.


=====Reason for outage:=====
noriko
Fedora Localization Project"


Several of the build related system instances are going to be moved
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to new hardware.  This includes db03 (the koji database),
nfs01 (frontend nfs for rel-eng and koji), and pkgs01
(fedora packagers git repositories). Additionally, db03 is going
to be upgraded to a RHEL6 instance. 


=====Affected Services:=====
====Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week====


* Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
* Contributor: [[User:JaroslavReznik|Jaroslav Reznik]<ref>jreznik at redhat.com</ref>
* Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 23:26:35 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000970.html</ref>
* GIT / Source Control - pkgs.fedoraproject.org


=====Unaffected Services:=====
"Today at Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip Fedora 18
Alpha release by one week due to remaining open blocker bugs<ref>http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current</ref> and incomplete test matrices for Alpha <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test</ref><ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test</ref><ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test</ref>. Meeting's
full log is at <ref>http://bit.ly/PC16PF</ref>.


* BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks,  
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
will be pushed out by one week.
* 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 Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.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:=====
The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Thursday Sep 06, same place
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2732</ref>
but different time (19:00 UTC, 3 PM EDT, 21:00 CEST
#fedora-meeting).


=====Contact Information:=====
If you have an accepted blocker bug, please try to fix it
as soon as possible to help us with Fedora 18 Alpha release!"


Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above. "
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=== Fedora Events ===
=== 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.
The purpose of Fedora 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 and press releases.
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 (September 2012 - November 2012)====
* '''North America (NA)'''<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28Sept_2012_-_Nov_2012.29</ref>
* '''Central & South America (LATAM)'''<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29</ref>
* '''Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)'''<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29_2</ref>
* '''India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)'''<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29_3</ref>


====Upcoming Events (March - May 2011)====
Guideline to write Fedora Press Releases<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_write_a_Fedora_press_release</ref>
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29</ref>
* Central & South America (LATAM): <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3</ref>
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4</ref>


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* [[Event reports]] -- guidelines and suggestions.
* [[Event reports]] -- guidelines and suggestions.
* [[FedoraEvents/LinuxEvents| LinuxEvents]] -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
* [[FedoraEvents/LinuxEvents| LinuxEvents]] -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
===Fedora Press Releases===
Fedora press releases will be found at the link:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_press_archive#Fedora_Press_Releases

Latest revision as of 11:18, 31 August 2012

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: Rashadul Islam

Breaking News of the Week and Month

[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

  • Contributor: [[User:Spot|Tom Callaway][1]
  • Posted Date: Wed Aug 1 19:28:57 UTC 2012[2]

"A new section has been added to the SysV Initscripts section, discussing the proper use of subsys locking. Even though Fedora packages should no longer be using SysV Initscripts as a primary service mechanism, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and EPEL do. Additionally, Red Hat points partners to the Fedora Guidelines when they build for RHEL. [3]

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The review guidelines now reflect the use of sha256sum (instead of md5sum) to confirm upstream source integrity. [4]

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The PHP Packaging guidelines have been updated to include guidance about when it is appropriate to have an explicit Requires on httpd & mod_php, how to handle explicit Requires on PHP extensions, and how to handle a Requires for a minimum PHP version. [5] [6] [7]

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A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging Guidelines, covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros. [8]

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A new section on the Documentation= field in systemd unit files (F17+) has been added. [9]

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A short section on the Group tag in Fedora packages has been added. All current versions of Fedora (and their respective RPM versions) treat the Group tag as optional. Packages may include a Group: field for compatibility with EPEL, but are not required to do so. [10]

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The RHEL conditionalization has been removed from the Python3 example spec file, as it is no longer valid. [11]

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These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC).

Many thanks to Remi Collet, David Malcolm, Vit Ondruch, Lennart Poettering, Michael Scherer, Dave Sullivan, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.

As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: [12]"

Enclosure: Here is one late change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:[13] [14] [15]

FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders

  • Contributor: Fedora Project Leader-[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron][1]
  • Posted Date: Fri Aug 3 17:00:53 UTC 2012[2]

"Greetings! (...or perhaps I should say.... bonjour!)

I'd like to share a few reminders and announcements regarding the upcoming FUDCon in Paris, France, on October 13-15, 2012.

If you are planning to attend FUDCon and need a travel subsidy to do so, the ticketing system is now open for those requests. Requests will be accepted through August 15, 2012. Please note that funding requests without a ticket will not be considered. Preference will be given to attendees from the EMEA region who are actively contributing to Fedora, and have detailed their participation plans for FUDCon in their request.

To place a subsidy request, please follow these steps:

1: Pre-register at [3] - and put an X in the $$$ column 2: Read about the funding request process and place a funding request ticket in the FUDCon-planning ticket tracker here: [4]

Additionally, a few notes regarding the hotel in Paris:

There are other events in Paris during this time period; most notably, our first day of FUDCon will be taking place at the Open World Forum conference, on the day in which the public is encouraged to participate in and learn about open source projects. OWF had nearly 2000 attendees last year. Accordingly, rooms might be in short supply as we approach FUDCon; please, book your hotel as soon as possible, not only for affordability purposes, but also so that you have a bed to sleep in. :)

We currently have a rate of EUR81 per night at the ibis Paris La Vilette Cite des Sciencesfor the nights of the 12th, 13th, and 14th of October. However, this rate will expire at the end of August, and any remaining rooms in our block will expire.

For instructions on booking your hotel, please read the Lodging/Hotel section of the FUDCon: Paris wiki: [5]"

Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org

  • Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Kevin|Kevin Fenzi ][1]
  • Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 20:31:24 UTC 2012[2]

"I'm happy to announce the general availability of our status.fedoraproject.org site.

This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to check on the status of services provided by Fedora Infrastructure.

The site auto reloads every minute, and also provides a rss feed at [3].

If you run into a problem or issue that is not reflected at status.fedoraproject.org, please do report it to us in #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net or via ticket at [4] We update the site status information manually so we need to be aware of the issue in order to keep the site accurate.

As with everything in Fedora Infrastructure, this application is open source. Source is available from: [5] and is released under a GPLv2+ license.

This application is hosted at the link[6] to avoid any issues with outages in our infrastructure affecting status reporting. "

Beats are open!

  • Contributor: Fedora Docs Leader-[[User:Bcotton|Ben Cotton][1]
  • Posted Date: Tue Aug 28 15:35:59 UTC 2012[2]

"The Release Notes beats for Fedora 18 are now open: [3]

If you're looking for a way to dip your toes in the water, so to speak, writing a beat is a great way to get started. If you're a regular, don't forget about the checkBeat program: [4]

As a reminder, the wiki drafts of beats are due on 12 September."

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

  • 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

New bodhi release in production

  • Contributor: [[User:Lmacken|Luke Macken ][1]
  • Posted Date: Thu Aug 9 21:53:41 UTC 2012[2]

"A new release of Bodhi has just been deployed to production. [3]

Bugs and enhancement requests can be filed here: [4]

Major changes in bodhi 0.9.2


  • fedmsg support! Bodhi now fires off messages for various events that occur. Join #fedora-fedmsg to see it in action. (Ralph Bean)
  • Re-organized the links on the front page, and link to the new Update Feedback Guidelines
  • The submitter of an update can no longer effect the karma (Till Maas)
  • Fix duplicate status change email notifications. (Till Maas)
  • Mention age of updates in testing digest mails (Till Maas)
  • Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails (Till Maas)
  • Add X-Bodhi mail headers (Till Maas)
  • Gracefully handle private bugs (Cole Robinson)
  • Set the default request for new updates to 'testing' in the web form
  • Fix a bug in our critpath policy that occurs when a critical path update to a pre-release reaches the minimum amount of time in testing, but is unable to push to stable.
  • Fixed the input box alignment in the login box (Kalpa Welivitigoda)


Full list of changes since 0.8.7


Kalpa Welivitigoda (1):

     fixed input box alignment issue in login box #579

Luke Macken (25):

     Convert our tags_url to a byte string before passing it to urlgrabber.
     Add a script to detect when older builds become the 'latest' in stable
     Update our test suite to reproduce ticket [ticket:683]
     Fix a bug in our critpath policy ([ticket:683]).
     Set the default request for new updates to 'testing'
     Clean up EOL buildroot overrides in our rmrelease tool (bz#818617)
     Fix a busted unit test (test_push_EPEL_critpath_before_tested)
     Add pkg_resources __requires__ hacks to bodhi tools to mitigate version

conflicts

     Handle the case where a release doesn't have any overrides
     Change our X-Bodhi-Update-Release header to use the short name
     Apply a modified patch from Cole Robinson to gracefully handle private bugs (#639605)
     Update our unit tests to assume submitters cannot alter karma
     Merge branch 'bodhi1-fedmsg' into feature/bodhi1-fedmsg
     Merge branch 'feature/bodhi1-fedmsg' into develop
     Fix a typo in the metrics tool
     Fix a typo in the new mail headers
     Re-organize our links, and add one to the new update feedback guidelines
     Clean up stray buildroot overrides
     Version bump for 0.9.2
     Our build script uses bz2
     Merge branch 'release/0.9.2'

Mathieu Bridon (6):

     Have bodhi-init create all the tables
     masher: Fix the comparison
     masher: Reuse variable
     setup: Fix the Turbogears version requirement
     Don't version control auto-generated files
     setup: Add missing dependencies

Ralph Bean (19):

     Sending messages with fedmsg.
     No longer using fedmsg schema/validation.
     fedmsg.ini -> fedmsg-config.py
     More detail in the update.complete message.
     More concise send_message calls.
     Ignore dev db.
     Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
     Updates for the latest fedmsg.  Getting tests passing.
     Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
     Ignore mashing fedora file.
     Fixed what I think is a regression in login template.
     Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
     Update to test fedmsg config.  Work with both tests and under WSGI.
     Version bump for fedmsg in staging.
     Only send the comment with a comment is added, not the whole update.
     Using a "bodhi" user/group for mod_wsgi.
     fedmsg+ssl changes to bodhi.spec.
     Use modern fedmsg config format.
     Disable message signing for bodhi tests.

Till Maas (8):

     Add X-Bodhi mail headers
     Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails
     Mention age of updates in testing digest mails
     Use format string instead of string concatenation
     Import exceptions from sqlite3
     Remove files used by mercurial
     model.py: Change karma from Submitter to 0
     Fix notification on automatic status change"

Build F-18 collection packages for all language translators

  • Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Noriko|Noriko Mizumoto][1]
  • Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 09:17:01 UTC 2012[2]

"Hi Fedora package maintainers

Please build and push your package with latest translation file (e.g. pull from Transifex/Zanata) for L10N QA test BY THIS FRIDAY 2012-08-31. Your packages with latest translation will be composed into test live image on 3-Sep Monday. Then various language translators worldwide will test the image in their own languages. Any issue will be filed as bug. This is only one chance for translators to check and modify Localization quality of your packages by checking UI, and we need your help.

Thank you so much.

noriko Fedora Localization Project"

Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week

  • Contributor: [[User:JaroslavReznik|Jaroslav Reznik][1]
  • Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 23:26:35 UTC 2012[2]

"Today at Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip Fedora 18 Alpha release by one week due to remaining open blocker bugs[3] and incomplete test matrices for Alpha [4][5][6]. Meeting's full log is at [7].

As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks, will be pushed out by one week.

The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Thursday Sep 06, same place but different time (19:00 UTC, 3 PM EDT, 21:00 CEST

  1. fedora-meeting).

If you have an accepted blocker bug, please try to fix it as soon as possible to help us with Fedora 18 Alpha release!"


Fedora Events

The purpose of Fedora 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 and press releases.

Upcoming Events (September 2012 - November 2012)

  • North America (NA)[1]
  • Central & South America (LATAM)[2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]

Guideline to write Fedora Press Releases[5]

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]

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.

Fedora Press Releases

Fedora press releases will be found at the link: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_press_archive#Fedora_Press_Releases