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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

Fedora Announcement News

The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html

Board IRC Meeting :: Fri 2010-08-27 at UTC 18:00 in #fedora-board-meeting

Fedora Project Leader, Jared K. Smith[1] on Fri Aug 27 14:40:46 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"Sorry for the late announcement... The Fedora Board is having a public IRC meeting today in #fedora-board-meeting at UTC 18:00 (2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT).

We'll follow the same protocol as we did on the August 13th meeting, as is explain here:[3].

The entire meeting will be dedicated to Questions and Answers. We're going to limit any single question to eight minutes, so that we can cover as many questions as possible in the 60 minutes we have available. In the interest of rapid responses, the Board members will be encouraged to respond at will to questions, as we did in the previous meeting."

  1. ↑ Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/002855.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings

Trademark defense -- you can help!

Paul W. Frields[1] on Tue Aug 31 15:23:27 UTC 2010 announced[2] that Red Hat Legal provides numerous services as counsel to the Fedora community, including defending Fedora trademarks against possible encroachment. On his announcement, he also mentioned,

"Occasionally, people who have no connection to our community attempt to use the Fedora trademark to signify business efforts that have no connection to the Fedora Project, our distribution, or the Fedora community.

Red Hat Legal is currently working on just such a defense. They've asked me to pass on a request for assistance in gathering physical evidence of our use of the Fedora logo worldwide prior to *January 30, 2007*.

Here's what Red Hat Legal needs. Please read this description carefully, and DO NOT REPLY to this list with attachments. That will keep the list usable by its many subscribers. Please reply directly to the addresses listed at the bottom of this email, and only if you have something that meets one or more of these criteria.

  • An item bearing the current Fedora logo that was produced or available in China prior to January 30, 2007 is optimal, but anything available worldwide would suffice.
  • Tangible objects -- paper brochures, CDs, buttons, mousepads, balloons, webpage printouts with a print date from before 30 January, 2007, T-shirts, etc. -- that were in existence before that date. For example, a T-shirt that says "Fedora 2005" on it would be good, or perhaps one with just a release number that's before January 30, 2007.
  • We have a Fedora 5 CD, but any others from before 30 January 2007 would be good. (AFAIK Fedora Core 6 is the only other applicable release, since FC5-FC6 were the two distros we produced with the logo prior to January 30, 2007.)[3]
  • We're looking for a a hard copy of this Linux magazine from March, 2006:[4][5]

...plus any other magazines, ads, news articles, etc. from before January 30, 2007 that talk about Fedora.

If it's not obvious from the object itself what the date is, Red Hat Legal may ask you to sign an affidavit explaining what the object is and how you know it existed before January 30, 2007.

Again, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS LIST WITH ATTACHMENTS.

Photos or scans of anything like CD's, T-shirts, keyrings, mouse pads, etc. are acceptable. You can email these directly to edutton at redhat dot com

If the item is paper (like the magazine), you can mail it directly to: 

 Erin Dutton
 Red Hat Legal Department
 Attention: Fedora TM items
 1801 Varsity Drive
 Raleigh, NC  27606
  1. ↑ Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/002856.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/HistoricalSchedules
  4. ↑ http://www.linux-mag.com/id/2532
  5. ↑ http://www.linux-mag.com/channel/back-issues/march2006

Fedora Development News

The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1]

  • 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

dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices

Rex Dieter[2] on Tue Aug 24 18:08:50 UTC 2010 announced[3],

"You may have noticed notices landing in your mailbox today similar to: foo-1.0-2.fc14 successfully untagged from dist-f14-updates-testing by rdieter

You should be able to safely ignore all those, as the mess I caused trying to clean up some koji tags got sorted out. My apologies."

  1. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
  2. ↑ Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000669.html

Request compose of image for Software Review UI from Releng

noriko[1] on Thu Aug 26 12:06:49 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"Hi Release Engineering team

F14 collection packages should be built with latest translation by today, 26-Aug. Could you please kindly compose the image with those latest packages for software translation review?

Translators are scheduled to have review and correct software translation in built UI between 2010-08-30 to 2010-09-07 (deadline).

Thank you so much for you help."

  1. ↑ noriko noriko at fedoraproject.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000670.html

Orphan packages retired for F-14 (and rawhide)

Bill Nottingham[1] on Fri Aug 27 19:03:59 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"In accordance with the normal process, the following packages have been orphaned for Fedora 14 and rawhide.

  • JSDoc
  • bzr-gtk
  • cdf
  • crun
  • django-authopenid
  • drpython
  • fedora-security-guide-en-US
  • fet
  • fish
  • gg2
  • gnomecatalog
  • gperiodic
  • impressive
  • kasablanca
  • kflickr
  • lazygal
  • libmspack
  • mapbender
  • mediawiki-HNP
  • mediawiki-StubManager
  • minirpc
  • nettle
  • nget
  • nodm
  • pAgenda
  • papercut
  • pastebin
  • php-channel-phpdb
  • php-pear-Phlickr
  • php-pear-creole
  • php-pear-pake
  • php-pear-propel_generator
  • php-pear-propel_runtime
  • poker-engine
  • poker-eval
  • poker-network
  • poker2d
  • poker3d
  • poker3d-data
  • pyfacebook
  • pypoker-eval
  • python-numarray
  • python-urllib2_kerberos
  • qosmic
  • tanukiwrapper
  • tinyows
  • tpb
  • tremfusion
  • twitux
  • windowlab
  • x2vnc
  • xenwatch"
  1. ↑ Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000671.html

Important note about FAS Certs and lookasie cache

Mike McGrath[1] on Tue Aug 31 00:10:43 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"The short version (as paraphrased by tibbs):

20:01 < tibbs|h> nss-3.12.6-7 doesn't work, 3.12.6-12 works.

The longer version: A recent update to fas included an upgrade of the OS to the RHEL6 alpha. One unintended consequence of this is we're now generating pkcs#8 keys instead of rsa. This caused some older nss libraries to function differently which caused lookaside cache uploads to fail (lookaside is where the tarballs go when you build a new package).

So, if you're finding yourself unable to upload to lookaside cache. Make sure you update your version of nss. (F13 should be available now, F12 recently got enough karma to push and it should be available soon).

Sorry for the inconvenience."

  1. ↑ Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000672.html

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 (Sept 2010 - November 2010)

  • North America (NA)[1]
  • Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2010.29
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29_2

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents

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.
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