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= Fedora Weekly News Issue 246 =
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 246<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue246</ref> for the week ending Octoberber 6, 2010.  What follows are some highlights from this issue.   
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 246<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue246</ref> for the week ending October 6, 2010.  What follows are some highlights from this issue.   




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== Fedora In the News ==
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/</ref>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal Calarco]]
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=== New Fedora Linux Project Leader Building More Than a Distro (CIOUpdate) ===
Kara Schiltz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013445.html</ref> a recent article focusing on the Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith:
"The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Linux community is an open source development effort that includes a diverse set of participants. At the top of the organizational chart for Fedora is the position of Fedora Project Leader, the person tasked with overseeing the general direction and operations of the Fedora project.
In July, Jared Smith took up the position of Fedora Project Leader, replacing the outgoing Paul Frields<ref>http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/06/red-hat-names-new-fedora-proje.html</ref>.  Among Smith's first jobs is to guide the development and release of the
upcoming Fedora 14<ref>http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7184/1/</ref> Linux
distribution, set for general availability in November. Building the Fedora Linux distribution is one of Smith's key responsibilities as Fedora Project Leader, but it involves more than just pure code.
'A lot of the time we think of Fedora as just the bits and the bytes
that we burn on a CD<ref>http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3906551/New-Fedora-Linux-Project-Leader-Building-More-Than-a-Distro.htm#</ref> every six months and ship out, but Fedora is more than that, it has to be a community,' Smith said. 'As such we have to concentrate on building that community and taking care of the community as much as we take care of the bits and bytes.'"
The full article is available<ref>http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3906551/New-Fedora-Linux-Project-Leader-Building-More-Than-a-Distro.htm</ref>
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{{Anchor|Ambassadors}}
== Ambassadors ==
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project<ref> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors </ref>.
Contributing Writer: [[User:Sankarshan|Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]]
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=== Welcome New Ambassadors ===
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.
[[User:Gfidente|Giulio]] from Italy mentored by [[User:Robert|Robert Scheck]]
[[User:Thereaper|Christian Jantz]] from Germany mentored by [[User:Robert|Robert Scheck]]
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=== Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ===
Christoph Wikcert posted <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015636.html </ref> initial thoughts around media production for Fedora 14 release in the EMEA region
Rejaul Islam posted <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015632.html </ref> about the features that have been accepted by FESCo as part of Fedora 14 release <ref> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList </ref>
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer announced <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015642.html </ref> the availability via torrent <ref> http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/ </ref> of the i686 F13 Live with GNOME, KDE, LXDE and XFCE on one disk. This was in context of the thread <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015639.html </ref> from the previous month
Saadeddine AlSaidi posted <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015643.html </ref> an off topic mail about Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) introduced in the US
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wondered <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015645.html </ref> if it would be a good idea to replace the current 4 CDs of Desktop Spin with a single DVD that contains all the spins. Sascha cited possible savings due to mass production. There was further discussion on the thread <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.html#15645 </ref> about this idea along side discussion on re-spins.
David Ramsey posted <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015651.html </ref> meeting notes from the APAC meeting on 2010-10-03
John Poelstra posted <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015658.html </ref> about upcoming tasks around Fedora 14
Scott McBrien reminded <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015662.html </ref> the NA Ambassadors about the meeting on 2010-10-06. David Ramsey provided information <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015663.html </ref> about updates to the agenda
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=== Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ===
[[User:ke4qqq|David Nalley]] posted <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000365.html </ref> the meeting minutes from the last FAmSCo meeting <ref> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeting-1.2010-09-27-18.05.txt </ref> along with the meeting minutes from the meeting on 2010-09-20 <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000366.html </ref>
[[User:Mspevack|Max Spevack]] announced <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000367.html </ref> about his inability to attend the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-10-04
[[User:Jsimon|Joerg Simon]] mentioned <ref> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000369.html </ref> that he would return from vacation on 2010-10-06
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== QualityAssurance ==
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA</ref>. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join</ref>.
The QA section returns this week after a month's absence, for which I apologize! At first I was busy with Fedora 14 Beta work, and for the last two weeks I simply missed the deadline. If anyone would like to help write the QA beat so this doesn't happen in future, please do get in touch, I'd welcome the help.
Contributing Writer: [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]]
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=== Test Days ===
Since the last issue, there have been Test Days for systemd<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-07_Systemd</ref> (recap<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093463.html</ref>), anaconda non-English translations and keyboard layouts<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-16_AnacondaTranslationKeyboard</ref> (recap<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093871.html</ref>), virtualization<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-23_Virtualization</ref>, and the Graphics Test Week, including nouveau<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-28_Nouveau</ref>, radeon<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-29_Radeon</ref>, and intel<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-30_Intel</ref> (recap<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094439.html</ref>). See the recaps for details on each event, but they were all broadly successful in exposing bugs to be fixed for the Fedora 14 release.
Next week's Test Day<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-10-14_OpenLDAP/NSS</ref> on 2010-10-14 will be on the use of OpenLDAP with the NSS security library - the use of NSS with OpenLDAP is new in Fedora 14, replacing the previous use of OpenSSL. The Test Day will focus on ensuring that OpenLDAP with NSS behaves exactly as OpenLDAP with OpenSSL did. If you're an OpenLDAP user, please come along to the Test Day and help ensure there are no nasty surprises with OpenLDAP in Fedora 14! As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You can help out with testing using a virtual machine, so there's no need to alter your main system.
This will be the last Test Day of the Fedora 14 cycle. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/</ref>.
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=== Fedora 14 Beta testing ===
The group has been busy for the last month or so with Fedora 14 Beta validation and testing. We performed validation testing on TC1<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093468.html</ref>, RC1<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093830.html</ref>, RC2<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093843.html</ref> and RC3<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093947.html</ref>, with many community members contributing extensive testing. Eventually we declared that RC3 had passed installation validation testing and desktop validation testing (including all four primary desktops), and along with the development and release engineering groups, approved the release of RC3 as Fedora 14 Beta at the go/no-go meeting of 2010-09-22<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-22/fedora-meeting.2010-09-22-21.01.log.html</ref>.
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=== Proven testers ===
[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093372.html</ref> a proven testers procedure clarification<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Proven_tester&diff=195994&oldid=193694</ref>: if an update does not fix a bug it claims to fix, but otherwise works correctly and has other changes which do work, proven testers should not file negative karma against that update.
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=== Release criteria ===
[[User:Jlaska|James Laska]] proposed some new release criteria<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093476.html</ref> defining when artwork should be ready for each Fedora release. [[User:Jdulaney|John Dulaney]] and [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] responded positively, so James pushed the change to the Wiki<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093568.html</ref>.
[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] proposed a new release criterion<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094302.html</ref> requiring there to be no unintentional conflicts or unresolved dependencies in the entire package repository frozen for release. This was proposed on behalf of release engineering following discussion at a blocker meeting. Some felt this was too high a standard to aim for. After some discussion, [[User:Notting|Bill Nottingham]] stated that "I'd be willing to extend/change this such that trees are tested for broken dependencies, all broken dependencies are filed, and these tickets are attached to the nice-to-have tracker".
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=== Nice-to-have bug process ===
[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] submitted a proposal<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/094067.html</ref> for a formal process for handling nice-to-have bugs; those bugs that do not block a given release but for which fixes will be taken during the freeze period for that release. [[User:Jlaska|James Laska]] responded with some suggested modifications<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/094122.html</ref>.
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== Translation ==
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project<ref>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N</ref>.
Contributing Writer: [[RunaBhattacharjee|Runa Bhattacharjee]]
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=== Fedora 14 Tasks ===
[[User:Poelstra | John Poelstra]] informed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008072.html</ref> the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, translation of Final Release Notes and all guides is currently underway.
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=== Changes in Modules for Translation ===
'Python for You and Me'<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008063.html</ref>, 'Storage Administration Guide (Fedora 14)'<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008059.html</ref> have been added to translate.fedoraproject.org to accept translations. Additionally, translations have been opened for Fedora 14 branch of the Accessibility Guide<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008062.html</ref> and Installation Guide<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008073.html</ref> and translations into the Fedora 13 branch of the 'Security Guide'<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008067.html</ref> has been stopped.
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=== Seapplet Translations Require Updations ===
A patch submitted by [[User:Vpv | Ville-Pekka Vainio]] fixed a problem that prevented the seapplet to use the available translations. An update in the PO files and this patch has added a few more strings for which translations need to be updated<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008075.html</ref>.
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=== Delay in Website Translation Start Date Requested ===
[[User:Sijis|Sijis Aviles]] from the Fedora Website team has requested to delay the start of Fedora Website translations as the team is still finalizing the content for fedoraproject.org<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008076.html</ref>.
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=== New Members and Sponsors in FLP ===
[[User:Lenormand | Guillaume Bonnoron] (French)<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008068.html</ref>, [[User:Tietom | Tomasz Karpowicz]] (Polish)<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008071.html</ref>, Antonio Trande (Italian)<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008080.html</ref>, [[User:Altazur | Anatolyi Romsa]] (Ukranian, Russian)<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008082.html</ref>,  joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Also, the Russian team has a new coordinator [[User:Shnurapet | Misha Snurapet]], who takes over from [[User:Ypoyarko | Yulia Poyarkova]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008077.html</ref>.
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== Design ==
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork</ref>.
Contributing Writer: [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]
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=== Icon Design ===
When [[BryanNielsen|Bryan Nielsen]], as a new contributor, tried his hand <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003381.html</ref> at a first task<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/99</ref> "I was looking for a simple ticket item that I could tackle and ticket #99 does not have an owner and looked like something I could handle", [[User:jimmac|Jakub Steiner]], the team's guru in icon design, stepped in<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003396.html</ref> with useful advices "Indeed, the workflow goes like this - create the highres, scale it down for 48x48, remove all the detail that won't render. Get rid of all the mask tricks, put 1px strokes in place. Make sure everything snaps to the pixel grid (snap to bounding box in inkscape). Once 48x48 is down, repeat for smaller sizes. Once done, edit the icon name and context in the baseplate layer, hide the baseplate layer and render the icon with `./render-icon-theme.py icon-name`" and after a number of iterations Bryan achieved<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003419.html</ref> a good result.
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=== Release Graphics ===
Media artwork (CD/DVD sleeves and labels) are one of the lasts items needing to be done before the Fedora 14 release so [[User:inkscaper|Alexander Smirnov]] proposed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003387.html</ref> a design "It's my proposal for create DVD/CD sleeve artwork. This concept based on our new branding font Comfortaa and Cantarel." After a suggestion<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003390.html</ref> by [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] he removed the GNOME logo and improved<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003402.html</ref> the text layout. Alexander even created<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003409.html</ref> physical products and provided photos "I created real sleeve for preview (photo from my mobile phone)." [[User:marcstewart|Marc Stewart]] built his own version<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003408.html</ref> on Alexander's layout "I am indebted to Alexander for posting his designs. Up until a few hours ago, I felt there was something missing from mine, and have shamelessly stolen the overlay and front logo, and moved the front details from the bottom-left over to the right as a consequence of incorporating these
elements."
[[User:inkscaper|Alexander Smirnov]] also created<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003403.html</ref> the countdown banner<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Banners_Submissions/Countdown_Translate</ref> for the Fedora 14 release "I ended make translate version my countdown banner" and [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-October/008622.html</ref> it to the websites list.
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=== Design Suite Leadership ===
[[User:foxmulder881|Chris Jones]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003405.html</ref> his resignation as a co-maintainer of the Fedora Design Suite "This is by no means good bye for me and my Fedora and Fedora Design Suite Spin Development contributions. It's simply a change of position to something more suited to my current choices and availabilities", [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] made the case<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003406.html</ref> for a better collaboration "I think it would have been helpful if all of you sat down together (at the weekly IRC Design Team meetings would be a perfect opportunity), talk and fine tune your vision", [[User:ppapadeas|Pierros Papadeas]] acknowledged<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003407.html</ref> his share "I really feel that I should apologize for not being responsive the past couple of months, as I have tremendous pressure from my school and job. I am feeling deeply sorry about that" and Chris reiterated<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003417.html</ref> talk did happen, but not in public "I should probably have mentioned that all three of us did have email contact and our own meetings away from the mailing list and out of public discussion."
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== Security Advisories ==
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]]
=== Fedora 14 Security Advisories ===
* seamonkey-2.0.8-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049002.html
* openswan-2.6.29-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/048999.html
* cgit-0.8.2.1-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/048993.html
* clamav-0.96.3-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/048974.html
* mysql-5.1.50-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/048881.html
* mantis-1.1.8-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/048548.html
=== Fedora 13 Security Advisories ===
* mysql-5.1.50-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/048788.html
* mantis-1.1.8-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/048659.html
=== Fedora 12 Security Advisories ===
* mantis-1.1.8-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/048639.html
* php-pecl-apc-3.1.4-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/048630.html

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 246

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 246[1] for the week ending October 6, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.


The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news@lists.fedoraproject.org

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue246
  2. ↑ http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

Marketing

In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-09-29 to 2010-10-05.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross

Rejaul Islam[1] contributed[2] with a summary of Fedora 14 features.

Ankur Sinha[3] suggested[4] that we need a easy way to pass the "in the news" media hits to identi.ca and twitter

Paul W. Frields[5] was looking[6] to coordinate features profiles articles with Red Hat press blog. Kara Schiltz pointed out[7] some openings for October 21 and 28. Robyn Bergeron[8] pointed out[9] that EC2 and mini-SIG are under work, but also expressed need for some one to make a feature profile on developer tools. Paul said[10] he was already working on it.

Paul W. Frields[11] indicated[12] that Red Hat is undertaking press release for Fedora 14. If anybody wants to pitch in can look at the wiki page[13] for collaborating.

  1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rejaul
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013435.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013437.html
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Stickster
  6. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013446.html
  7. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013447.html
  8. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rbergero
  9. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013449.html
  10. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013451.html
  11. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Stickster
  12. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013450.html
  13. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_announcement

Fedora In the News

In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/

New Fedora Linux Project Leader Building More Than a Distro (CIOUpdate)

Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a recent article focusing on the Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith:

"The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Linux community is an open source development effort that includes a diverse set of participants. At the top of the organizational chart for Fedora is the position of Fedora Project Leader, the person tasked with overseeing the general direction and operations of the Fedora project.

In July, Jared Smith took up the position of Fedora Project Leader, replacing the outgoing Paul Frields[2]. Among Smith's first jobs is to guide the development and release of the upcoming Fedora 14[3] Linux distribution, set for general availability in November. Building the Fedora Linux distribution is one of Smith's key responsibilities as Fedora Project Leader, but it involves more than just pure code.

'A lot of the time we think of Fedora as just the bits and the bytes that we burn on a CD[4] every six months and ship out, but Fedora is more than that, it has to be a community,' Smith said. 'As such we have to concentrate on building that community and taking care of the community as much as we take care of the bits and bytes.'"

The full article is available[5]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013445.html
  2. ↑ http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/06/red-hat-names-new-fedora-proje.html
  3. ↑ http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7184/1/
  4. ↑ http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3906551/New-Fedora-Linux-Project-Leader-Building-More-Than-a-Distro.htm#
  5. ↑ http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3906551/New-Fedora-Linux-Project-Leader-Building-More-Than-a-Distro.htm

Ambassadors

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Welcome New Ambassadors

This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.

Giulio from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck

Christian Jantz from Germany mentored by Robert Scheck


Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

Christoph Wikcert posted [1] initial thoughts around media production for Fedora 14 release in the EMEA region

Rejaul Islam posted [2] about the features that have been accepted by FESCo as part of Fedora 14 release [3]

Sascha Thomas Spreitzer announced [4] the availability via torrent [5] of the i686 F13 Live with GNOME, KDE, LXDE and XFCE on one disk. This was in context of the thread [6] from the previous month

Saadeddine AlSaidi posted [7] an off topic mail about Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) introduced in the US

Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wondered [8] if it would be a good idea to replace the current 4 CDs of Desktop Spin with a single DVD that contains all the spins. Sascha cited possible savings due to mass production. There was further discussion on the thread [9] about this idea along side discussion on re-spins.

David Ramsey posted [10] meeting notes from the APAC meeting on 2010-10-03

John Poelstra posted [11] about upcoming tasks around Fedora 14

Scott McBrien reminded [12] the NA Ambassadors about the meeting on 2010-10-06. David Ramsey provided information [13] about updates to the agenda

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015636.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015632.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015642.html
  5. ↑ http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/
  6. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015639.html
  7. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015643.html
  8. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015645.html
  9. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.html#15645
  10. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015651.html
  11. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015658.html
  12. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015662.html
  13. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015663.html

Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list

David Nalley posted [1] the meeting minutes from the last FAmSCo meeting [2] along with the meeting minutes from the meeting on 2010-09-20 [3]

Max Spevack announced [4] about his inability to attend the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-10-04

Joerg Simon mentioned [5] that he would return from vacation on 2010-10-06

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000365.html
  2. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeting-1.2010-09-27-18.05.txt
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000366.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000367.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000369.html

QualityAssurance

In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].

The QA section returns this week after a month's absence, for which I apologize! At first I was busy with Fedora 14 Beta work, and for the last two weeks I simply missed the deadline. If anyone would like to help write the QA beat so this doesn't happen in future, please do get in touch, I'd welcome the help.

Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join

Test Days

Since the last issue, there have been Test Days for systemd[1] (recap[2]), anaconda non-English translations and keyboard layouts[3] (recap[4]), virtualization[5], and the Graphics Test Week, including nouveau[6], radeon[7], and intel[8] (recap[9]). See the recaps for details on each event, but they were all broadly successful in exposing bugs to be fixed for the Fedora 14 release.

Next week's Test Day[10] on 2010-10-14 will be on the use of OpenLDAP with the NSS security library - the use of NSS with OpenLDAP is new in Fedora 14, replacing the previous use of OpenSSL. The Test Day will focus on ensuring that OpenLDAP with NSS behaves exactly as OpenLDAP with OpenSSL did. If you're an OpenLDAP user, please come along to the Test Day and help ensure there are no nasty surprises with OpenLDAP in Fedora 14! As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You can help out with testing using a virtual machine, so there's no need to alter your main system.

This will be the last Test Day of the Fedora 14 cycle. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[11].

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-07_Systemd
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093463.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-16_AnacondaTranslationKeyboard
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093871.html
  5. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-23_Virtualization
  6. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-28_Nouveau
  7. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-29_Radeon
  8. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-30_Intel
  9. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094439.html
  10. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-10-14_OpenLDAP/NSS
  11. ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/

Fedora 14 Beta testing

The group has been busy for the last month or so with Fedora 14 Beta validation and testing. We performed validation testing on TC1[1], RC1[2], RC2[3] and RC3[4], with many community members contributing extensive testing. Eventually we declared that RC3 had passed installation validation testing and desktop validation testing (including all four primary desktops), and along with the development and release engineering groups, approved the release of RC3 as Fedora 14 Beta at the go/no-go meeting of 2010-09-22[5].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093468.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093830.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093843.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093947.html
  5. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-22/fedora-meeting.2010-09-22-21.01.log.html

Proven testers

Adam Williamson announced[1] a proven testers procedure clarification[2]: if an update does not fix a bug it claims to fix, but otherwise works correctly and has other changes which do work, proven testers should not file negative karma against that update.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093372.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Proven_tester&diff=195994&oldid=193694

Release criteria

James Laska proposed some new release criteria[1] defining when artwork should be ready for each Fedora release. John Dulaney and Adam Williamson responded positively, so James pushed the change to the Wiki[2].

Adam Williamson proposed a new release criterion[3] requiring there to be no unintentional conflicts or unresolved dependencies in the entire package repository frozen for release. This was proposed on behalf of release engineering following discussion at a blocker meeting. Some felt this was too high a standard to aim for. After some discussion, Bill Nottingham stated that "I'd be willing to extend/change this such that trees are tested for broken dependencies, all broken dependencies are filed, and these tickets are attached to the nice-to-have tracker".

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093476.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093568.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094302.html

Nice-to-have bug process

Adam Williamson submitted a proposal[1] for a formal process for handling nice-to-have bugs; those bugs that do not block a given release but for which fixes will be taken during the freeze period for that release. James Laska responded with some suggested modifications[2].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/094067.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/094122.html

Translation

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N

Fedora 14 Tasks

John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, translation of Final Release Notes and all guides is currently underway.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008072.html

Changes in Modules for Translation

'Python for You and Me'[1], 'Storage Administration Guide (Fedora 14)'[2] have been added to translate.fedoraproject.org to accept translations. Additionally, translations have been opened for Fedora 14 branch of the Accessibility Guide[3] and Installation Guide[4] and translations into the Fedora 13 branch of the 'Security Guide'[5] has been stopped.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008063.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008059.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008062.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008073.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008067.html

Seapplet Translations Require Updations

A patch submitted by Ville-Pekka Vainio fixed a problem that prevented the seapplet to use the available translations. An update in the PO files and this patch has added a few more strings for which translations need to be updated[1].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008075.html

Delay in Website Translation Start Date Requested

Sijis Aviles from the Fedora Website team has requested to delay the start of Fedora Website translations as the team is still finalizing the content for fedoraproject.org[1].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008076.html

New Members and Sponsors in FLP

[[User:Lenormand | Guillaume Bonnoron] (French)[1], Tomasz Karpowicz (Polish)[2], Antonio Trande (Italian)[3], Anatolyi Romsa (Ukranian, Russian)[4], joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Also, the Russian team has a new coordinator Misha Snurapet, who takes over from Yulia Poyarkova[5].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008068.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008071.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008080.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008082.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008077.html

Design

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Icon Design

When Bryan Nielsen, as a new contributor, tried his hand [1] at a first task[2] "I was looking for a simple ticket item that I could tackle and ticket #99 does not have an owner and looked like something I could handle", Jakub Steiner, the team's guru in icon design, stepped in[3] with useful advices "Indeed, the workflow goes like this - create the highres, scale it down for 48x48, remove all the detail that won't render. Get rid of all the mask tricks, put 1px strokes in place. Make sure everything snaps to the pixel grid (snap to bounding box in inkscape). Once 48x48 is down, repeat for smaller sizes. Once done, edit the icon name and context in the baseplate layer, hide the baseplate layer and render the icon with ./render-icon-theme.py icon-name" and after a number of iterations Bryan achieved[4] a good result.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003381.html
  2. ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/99
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003396.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003419.html

Release Graphics

Media artwork (CD/DVD sleeves and labels) are one of the lasts items needing to be done before the Fedora 14 release so Alexander Smirnov proposed[1] a design "It's my proposal for create DVD/CD sleeve artwork. This concept based on our new branding font Comfortaa and Cantarel." After a suggestion[2] by Máirín Duffy he removed the GNOME logo and improved[3] the text layout. Alexander even created[4] physical products and provided photos "I created real sleeve for preview (photo from my mobile phone)." Marc Stewart built his own version[5] on Alexander's layout "I am indebted to Alexander for posting his designs. Up until a few hours ago, I felt there was something missing from mine, and have shamelessly stolen the overlay and front logo, and moved the front details from the bottom-left over to the right as a consequence of incorporating these elements."

Alexander Smirnov also created[6] the countdown banner[7] for the Fedora 14 release "I ended make translate version my countdown banner" and Máirín Duffy forwarded[8] it to the websites list.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003387.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003390.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003402.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003409.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003408.html
  6. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003403.html
  7. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Banners_Submissions/Countdown_Translate
  8. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-October/008622.html

Design Suite Leadership

Chris Jones announced[1] his resignation as a co-maintainer of the Fedora Design Suite "This is by no means good bye for me and my Fedora and Fedora Design Suite Spin Development contributions. It's simply a change of position to something more suited to my current choices and availabilities", Nicu Buculei made the case[2] for a better collaboration "I think it would have been helpful if all of you sat down together (at the weekly IRC Design Team meetings would be a perfect opportunity), talk and fine tune your vision", Pierros Papadeas acknowledged[3] his share "I really feel that I should apologize for not being responsive the past couple of months, as I have tremendous pressure from my school and job. I am feeling deeply sorry about that" and Chris reiterated[4] talk did happen, but not in public "I should probably have mentioned that all three of us did have email contact and our own meetings away from the mailing list and out of public discussion."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003405.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003406.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003407.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003417.html

Security Advisories

In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 14 Security Advisories

Fedora 13 Security Advisories

Fedora 12 Security Advisories

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