news 28 Posted July 28, 2008 === Fedora Weekly News Issue 136 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 136 for the week ending July 26, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue136 Fedora Weekly News keep you updated with the latest issues, events and activities in the fedora community. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one of our community's most important sources of news, and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time. We are still looking for a beat writer to summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during each week. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 136 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FESCo Election Results + 1.1.2 Cast your vote for the Fedora 10 Codename! + 1.1.3 Fedora 10 Alpha Freeze + 1.1.4 Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group + 1.1.5 Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 9 Re-Spin + 1.1.6 Feature Process Improvements + 1.1.7 FUEL opens up collaborative standardization of localization terms o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 Shameless Recruiting Pitch + 1.2.2 Intel's Moblin moves to Fedora + 1.2.3 Events + 1.2.4 Tech Tidbits + 1.2.5 Other Interesting Posts o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Linus Torvalds' personal Linux distro? Fedora 9, of course + 1.3.2 Asus Eee PC Fedora Respin + 1.3.3 Zimbra changes license to address Fedora concerns + 1.3.4 Seneca College teams with FOSS projects for hands-on learning + 1.3.5 Intel's Moblin switches from Ubuntu in favor of Fedora + 1.3.6 Fedora launches OLPC group + 1.3.7 Ring. Ring. It's Fedora calling + 1.3.8 Linux Symposium Proceedings Available + 1.3.9 Video: Fedora Live o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 FAD EMEA 2008 - Date & Location Determined + 1.4.2 Planning for Fedora 10 Release Parties + 1.4.3 Event Reports Reminder o 1.5 Developments + 1.5.1 Erratum: FWN#133 "Shark" is a JIT not a VM + 1.5.3 XULRunner Security Update Breakage Stimulates Bodhi Discussion + 1.5.4 Broken Upgrade Paths Due to NEVR + 1.5.5 Application Installer "Amber" Provides Browser Interface to Packages + 1.5.6 RPM Inspires Intel Moblin2 Shift From Ubuntu o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Nodoka development + 1.6.2 Gathering feed-back about Fedora 10 theme proposals + 1.6.3 A possible Bluecurve revival o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 9 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 8 Security Advisories === Announcements In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce 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: Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Dennis Gilmore, Brian Pepple, and David Woodhouse have been elected to full two-release terms, and Jarod Wilson, Josh Boyer, Jon Stanley and Karsten Hopp 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. https://fedorahosted.org/fuel === Planet Fedora In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Max Spevack === Shameless Recruiting Pitch We begin this week's summary of Planet Fedora with a recruitment pitch for Fedora Weekly News beat writers, scribed by Karsten Wade. === Intel's Moblin moves to Fedora The topic that took Planet Fedora by storm on Friday and Saturday was the announcement of Intel's Moblin moving from Ubuntu to Fedora as its base OS. Yaakov Nemoy, John Palmieri, Seth Vidal, and Karsten Wade all weighed in with their thoughts. === Events A number of event reports were posted on Planet Fedora this week. * LUG Radio Live UK, attended by Max Spevack. * Ottawa Linux Symposium (day 1), as reported by Dennis Gilmore. * LTSP Hackfest (day 1), which included hackers from numerous Linux distros, and Fedora's own Warren Togami. * A GUADEC trip report (including pictures) from Dimitris Glezos. * A second place finish in the 2008 RoboCup World Championships, with a report from Tim Niemueller. In other event news: * Sandro "red" Mathys has posted details about the upcoming Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA. * James Morris shared his Ottawa Linux Symposium paper with us, which is a detailed update on SELinux. === Tech Tidbits Transifex 0.3 has been released. "Transifex 0.3 is a major release, including a lot of under-the-hood changes. We’ve added full i18n support, and now in addition to the templates, per-module information stored in the database, such as names and descriptions, can be translated as well," explains project lead Dimitris Glezos. Lorenzo Villani is working on adding the ZYpp stack into Fedora. He explains, "It seems that with the latest releases of sat-solver, libzypp and zypper, the whole stack has become more stable on Fedora, especially, in the past few weeks I wasn’t able to update packages due to various resolver’s problems, but now it seems that 'zypper up' does its job smoothly." Share this post Link to post
