news 28 Posted September 8, 2008 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 142 ============================= Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 142 for the week ending September 7, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue142 This week in Announcements we alert you to the "Fedora 10 Beta Freeze Coming Soon" and the new "FESCo Issue Tracking". In PlanetFedora "Tech Tidbits" contains some juicy morsels on evaluating package sizes and Haskell. In Developments we examine the process of "Getting Back On Our Feet" after the intrusions. SecurityAnnouncements finally has some content. Artwork covers "Working on a Sound Theme" and the acceptance of the "Echo Icon Theme as a Fedora 10 Feature" Fedora Weekly News keeps 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[1]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join =Announcements= In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack Echo Monthly News, Issue 1 Martin Sourada announced[0] the availability of the premiere issue of "Echo Monthly News[1]." Said Martin, "Since it's our first release it is not perfect and therefore we will appreciate any feedback, suggestions for improvement, etc. at the fedora-art-list and #fedora-art at irc.freenode.net." [0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00001.html [1] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/MonthlyNews/Issue1 Fedora 10 Beta Freeze Coming Soon Jesse Keating discussed[2] the Fedora 10 Beta schedule. "The new freeze date is Sept. 9, which is in 7 days. This is a friendly reminder that the freeze is coming up, and coming up quickly. I realize that rawhide has been less than great lately, and we're working quite hard to fix the issues." [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-September/msg00000.html Fedora 8 and 9 Updates Status Jesse Keating wrote[3] about the status of updates on Fedora 8 and Fedora 9. "We have done a successful compose of all the existing and as of yesterday pending updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9, all signed with our new keys. These updates will soon hit mirrors in a new set of directory locations. What we don't have quite yet is the updated fedora-release package in the old updates location that will get you the new keys and the new repo locations. The last mile testing of this update requires that new updates be live on the mirrors." For the full announcement, follow the link below. [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00002.html FESCo Issue Tracking Kevin Fenzi announced[4] the new FESCo issue-tracking tool. "In the past, interested parties could bring matters to the attention of FESCo in several ways: Mailing the chair, following up to the schedule posting on the devel list asking for a new topic to be added, or attending meetings on irc and bringing up the topic at the end of the meeting in the Open Discussion phase. While these methods work well for issues that simply need a bit of discussion and a decision, longer term issues that should be tracked and discussed further sometimes are forgotten." [4] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00003.html =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 Cambridge John Poelstra wrote[0] about the revised Fedora 10 schedule, which as been moved to account for the infrastructure problems that we faced a few weeks ago. "Last week the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) ratified the updated schedule proposed by the Release Engineering team. This resulted in feature freeze for Fedora moving to 2008-09-09 and GA to 2008-11-18. This three week change to the schedule was to accommodate the recent infrastructure outages." [0] http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/fedora-10-schedule-update/ Another Fedora Test Day is in the books, and James Laska wrote[1] about it on his blog. "There was a really strong developer turn out for this Test Day. In addition to David Huff, the appliance-tools developer, some of the oVirt team showed up to help walk through oVirt's use of appliance-tools. This was tremendously helpful to see how appliance-tools can be used by other projects. Thanks to Alan Pevec, Bryan Kearney and Darryl Pierce from the oVirt team for joining the event. Having such a tight feedback loop with the developers during Test Days has been very helpful, I hope we can continue with that format." [1] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/1444.html =Artwork= Nicu Buculei posted[2] the latest iterations of some of the potential Fedora 10 artwork themes. "The second round in the process of creating a visual theme for Fedora 10 ended yesterday, those are the proposals meeting the requirement and which will pass into the third (last) round (listed in chronological order)." Your beat writer is particularly fond of the Gears/Steampunk theme as well as the Solar theme, but thinks that all four are fantastic pieces of art, and should be carried over into Fedora 11's proposals. [2] http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/09/fedora-10-themes-round-2.html Tech Tidbits Yaakov Nemoy reported[3] on the state of Haskell in Fedora. "After nearly 9 months, I am finally at the point I wanted to be regarding Haskell. Last January i wanted to submit packages for my favourite window manager to Fedora. I got blocked because of a lack of packaging guidelines and familiarity with Haskell or the Glasgow Haskell Compiler." [3] http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/09/finally-done-with-haskell-things.html Continuing his habit of posting yum-related tutorials, James Antill posted[4] a quick explanation of packages sizes in yum and rpm. "It's pretty common to think that a specific thing always has a specific size, and people tend to think of an "rpm package" as a single object thus. the it's common to ask what is "the size of an rpm". However if you have a 1MB text file, and gzip compresses it to 50KB which you then upload to a HTTP server you now have at least 3 different sizes: text size; compressed size and upload size (includes HTTP headers etc.) and asking for the size. So it is with rpm packages, and their many sizes." [4] http://illiterat.livejournal.com/6439.html FUDCon Brno FUDCon Brno is happening as Fedora Weekly News freezes, but there are a bunch of photos online[5] and Max Spevack has been providing frequent updates[6] about the event on his blog. [5] http://flickr.com/groups/fudconbrno/pool/ [6] http://spevack.livejournal.com =Developments= In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
