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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

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"

Request for Comments: Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)

Tom "spot" Callaway from Fedora Legal announced”

Hello Fedora! (Is this thing on?)

Sorry for the very wide net, but we wanted to make sure as many members of our community could see this as possible.

For some time now, Fedora has been working with Red Hat Legal to come up with a replacement for the Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement (aka, the Fedora ICLA). As a result, the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA) has been approved by Red Hat Legal, and is now being presented to the Fedora Community for comments and discussion.

The full text of the FPCA, along with a FAQ, can be found here:

Please, take a moment and read the FPCA and the FAQ. It is not a long, or overly complicated document, as legal documents go, but it is important that all Fedora Contributors read it over and make sure they understand it and like it (or can at least agree to it).

Fedora Legal wishes to give the Fedora community a window of time for discussion and review of the FPCA. This window is open until May 18, 2010 (2010-05-18). After that point, either a revised FPCA will be released for review, or we will begin the process of phasing in the FPCA and phasing out the Fedora ICLA.

Thanks in advance,

Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora Legal

P.S. Fedora Legal would like to give a huge thank you to the people involved behind the scenes to make the FPCA possible. The primary author was Richard Fontana, with feedback from Tom Callaway, Pamela Chestek, Paul Frields, and Robert Tiller. Feel free to give them gifts (for example, drinks or tasty snacks) as thank yous, although, this is not a requirement (legal or otherwise). ;)

F14 Naming

F14 Naming: Constaine -> Goddard -> ???

Paul W. Frields announced, “Fedora 13 is just around the corner, so it's time for us to kick off the naming process for the next Fedora release. You can make a suggestion for the name for Fedora 14 here:

Remember that there are *instructions and guidelines* at the page that you must follow if you want your name to be considered. For instance, there must be an "is-a" link between the name Constantine and the name you suggest. That link must be different than previous links for Fedora release names. Please be sure to conduct the required searches for brand and trademark names that might cause us problems.

Read the full guidelines at that page, where you can also find full schedule details for the release naming process. Suggestions will be collected until Tuesday, April 27, and voting will happen starting Tuesday, May 4!”

F14 Naming: Constantine -> Goddard -> ???

Paul W. Frields on another announcement mentioned, “

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:32:18PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > Fedora 13 is just around the corner, so it's time for us to kick off

> the naming process for the next Fedora release. You can make a

> suggestion for the name for Fedora 14 here:

> And of course, this link should really be:

> Remember that there are *instructions and guidelines* at the page that

> you must follow if you want your name to be considered. For instance,

> there must be an "is-a" link between the name Constantine and the name

> you suggest. That link must be different than previous links for

> Fedora release names. Please be sure to conduct the required searches

> for brand and trademark names that might cause us problems. > > Read the full guidelines at that page, where you can also find full

> schedule details for the release naming process. Suggestions will be

> collected until Tuesday, April 27, and voting will happen starting

> Tuesday, May 4!

Apologies for the error.”

Fedora Development News

Outage notification - koji01 kdump setup - Sat Apr 17 2010

Jon Stanley  announced

Outage: setup kdump on koji01 - 2010-04-17 17:00 UTC

There will be an outage starting at 2010-04-17 17:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours.

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

date -d '2010-04-17 17:00 UTC'

Reason for outage: Setup and test kdump on koji01 in order to hopefully gain more insight into recurring outages.

Affected Services:

• Buildsystem -

Unaffected Services:

• BFO -
• Bodhi -
• CVS / Source Control
• DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
• Docs -
• Email system
• Fedora Account System -
• Fedora Community -
• Fedora Hosted -
• Fedora People -
• Fedora Talk -
• Main Website -
• Mirror List -
• Mirror Manager -
• Package Database -
• Smolt -
• Spins -
• Start -
• Torrent -
• Translation Services -
• Wiki -

Ticket Link:

Contact Information:

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

Fedora 13 bodhi updates cleanup

Bill Nottingham announced, 

”We've had a couple of issues with F13 updates where multiple versions of a package had updates-testing requests filed in bodhi at once, causing the 'wrong' update to be pushed to final.

Becuase of this, I'm going through and cleaning out some of the cases where we have multiple live test updates for a package so we don't run into this again. Apologies for any mails you get from bodhi about this.

In the near future, we will re-enable the bodhi auto-obsoletes code so we won't hit this problem. You can also avoid the issue by making sure you unpush/delete older updates yourself when issuing new ones, or by just editing the older update and changing the package.”

Fedora Events

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