Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.
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Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
FESCo Election Results
Brian Pepple announced the results of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election[1]:
"The results of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) election are in: BillNottingham, KevinFenzi, DennisGilmore, BrianPepple, and DavidWoodhouse have been elected to full two-release terms, and JarodWilson, JoshBoyer, JonStanley and KarstenHopp have been elected to a one-release term."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg00010.html
Cast your vote for the Fedora 10 Codename!
Josh Boyer reminded folks to vote[1]:
"As long as you have signed the CLA and belong to one additional group in the Fedora Account System, you can cast your vote.
Voting will end and be tallied at 23:59:59 28 July 2008 UTC."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg00011.html
Fedora 10 Alpha Freeze
Jesse Keating announced[1]:
"We have our first development freeze of the Fedora 10 cycle tomorrow. This is the alpha freeze, which is non-blocking. Release Engineering will be making a freeze inside the buildsystem of tomorrow's rawhide content. This will be the basis of the Fedora 10 Alpha release."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-July/msg00008.html
Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group
Greg DeKoenigsberg announced[1]:
"Thus, I am proud to announce the formation of the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group. Our mission: to provide the OLPC project with a strong, sustainable, scalable, community-driven base platform for innovation.
Immediate Goals:
1. To identify and take responsible ownership of as many OLPC base packages as possible.
2. To maintain an excellent Sugar environment for Fedora, including a dedicated Sugar spin.
3. To identify useful opportunities for collaboration (infrastructure, localization, etc.)"
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg00009.html
Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 9 Re-Spin
Jeroen van Meeuwen informed us[1]:
"The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD) of Fedora 9.
These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 9 installation media and include all updates released as of July 18th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via Jigdo starting Sunday, July 20th, 2008."
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg00007.html
Feature Process Improvements
John Poelstra had some excellent news on the feature front[1]:
"I was recently talking with Paul Frields about how to make the feature process more accessible... this combined with feedback in the rpm thread have led to a (hopefully) clearer presentation of how the feature process works."
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-July/msg00009.html
FUEL opens up collaborative standardization of localization terms
FUEL (Frequently Used Entries for Localization) aims at solving the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in computer software translation across the platform for all Languages. It will try to provide a standardized and consistent look of computer for a language computer users.