news 28 Posted March 9, 2009 Fedora Weekly News Issue 166 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 166 for the week ending March 8th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue166 A small sample of this issue's stories reflects the imminent release of Fedora 11! Announcements lists the freeze dates and upcoming Fedora events. PlanetFedora rounds up essential blog reading including a piece by Thomas Vander Stichele on "meltdown analysis". Marketing cheers for "One Million New Fedora 10 Installations". In QualityAssurance a reminder that the next of the "Test Days" is of interest to Intel video users is just one of the items reflecting a massive amount of QA activity. Ambassadors relates some OLPC news from Rochester Institute of Technology. Developments explains why "Orphans are Purged" and asks are we "Ready for a New RPM Version?". Translation highlights a "Study about FLP". Artwork stares at the wallpaper while "Preparing for the Beta Release". SecurityAdvisories lists stuff to help you avoid a rooting. Virtualization pops some salient items out of the development maelstrom including a "New Release of libvirt-0.6.1" and SELinux "sVirt Support Committed". There's a lot more, so keep reading! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list ( -at -) redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala Table of Contents 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 166 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora 11 1.1.2 Upcoming Events 1.1.2.1 FUDCon Berlin 2009 1.2 Planet Fedora 1.2.1 General 1.2.2 Education 1.3 Marketing 1.4 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-02-26 1.5 One Million New Fedora 10 Installations! 1.6 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-03-03 1.7 Ambassadors 1.7.1 RIT Pitches in on OLPC Project 1.7.2 Fedora at CUE 1.7.3 Got Ambassador News? 1.8 QualityAssurance 1.8.1 Test Days 1.8.2 Weekly Meetings 1.8.3 Bugzappers Wiki Re-organization 1.8.4 20 Second Boot Test Day Follow-up 1.8.5 Bugzappers Meeting Schedule 1.8.6 Ubuntu Triage Discussion 1.8.7 Introduction Emails 1.9 Developments 1.9.1 Orphans are Purged 1.9.2 Fedora 11 to Ship Tiger VNC 1.9.3 Ready for a New RPM Version ? 1.9.4 Windows Cross-compiler Added to comps.xml 1.9.5 Anaconda Default of Separate / and /home Partitions 1.9.6 Beta Freeze and String Freeze this Tuesday 2009-03-10 1.9.7 Fedora 11 Default Mediaplayer Not Banshee. Mono to Blame ? 1.10 Translation 1.10.1 FLP Infrastructure Team Meeting 1.10.2 Statistics Page and Submission Outage 1.10.3 Publican Documents Now on tfp.org 1.10.4 F11 String Freeze Reminder 1.10.5 Study about FLP 1.10.6 New Members in FLP 1.11 Artwork 1.11.1 Echo Weekly News 1.11.2 Preparing for the Beta Release 1.11.3 Working on the Picture Book 1.12 Security Advisories 1.12.1 Fedora 10 Security Advisories 1.12.2 Fedora 9 Security Advisories 1.13 Virtualization 1.13.1 Enterprise Management Tools List 1.13.1.1 Managing Guest OS Types 1.13.1.2 virt-manager Storage Removal 1.13.1.3 virt-install Host Device Assignment Support 1.13.2 Fedora Virtualization List 1.13.2.1 User Interface Makeover for virt-manager 1.13.2.2 New Release virtinst 0.4.2 1.13.3 Fedora Xen List 1.13.3.1 dom0 Kernel Inches Closer 1.13.4 Libvirt List 1.13.4.1 New Release libvirt 0.6.1 1.13.4.2 sVirt Support Committed 1.13.4.3 Secure Guest Migration Between Hosts 1.13.4.4 Hynesim Project Interest in Libvirt == 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/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents Contributing Writer: Max Spevack === Fedora 11 === Jesse Keating reminded[1] the community that the Fedora 11 Beta freeze[2] is coming this week. "It is scheduled for Tuesday, March 10th. They way we've historically enacted the beta freeze is to tag the content in that day's rawhide into the freeze tag. That is, what gets reported as rawhide-20090310 is the frozen content. As such, your builds need to be complete by 0600 UTC March 10 2009 in order to be in the Beta, without a special request." The string freeze is also on March 10th. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00006.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy === Upcoming Events === March 10-12: FOSE[1] in Washington, DC. March 13-15: Chemnitzer Linux Tage[2] in Chemnitz, Germany. 1. http://fose.com/ 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/CLT === FUDCon Berlin 2009 === FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26 - 28 in Berlin, Germany. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009 == 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: Adam Batkin === General === Michael DeHaan responded[1] to a post[2] by Karsten Wade from a few weeks ago titled "Failure as the secret of success". Michael agreed and argued that it is usually impossible to build a piece of software that is 100% perfect for 100% of its users. "Failure is good. Chasing perfect is bad. Making any one aspect perfect or spending too much time on it tends to make other aspects of things bad. We need to get close enough and find some new challenge to work on, so we have more time to iterate and fail a few more times. We all need more time to fail." Thomas Vander Stichele described[3] "an approach to doing meltdown analysis". Also known as a post-mortem analysis, this is a useful process for "when we've gotten into a bad situation involving multiple people that we want to learn from and avoid next time". Harald Hoyer summarized[4] the results from the 20 Seconds Boot Feature Test Day and offered some suggestions for users and developers alike. Matthew Daniels offered[5] some ideas to improve the Fedora documentation by splitting the User Guide into three parts, Practicum, Theory and Appendices & Glossary. Mark J Cox published[6] a set of metrics that tracks security vulnerabilities and the time-to-fix versus their time of disclosure within RHEL. John J. McDonough wrote[7] an article about Fedora, the four Foundations of the project/community and how and why you should join. Richard Hughes explained[8] some of the issues currently associated with installing Applications as opposed to Packages (first by explaining the difference between the terms Application and Package). Along with some other folks, they published a proposed specification[9] that is distribution-agnostic and should allow relevant metadata (including localized content) as well as icons to be efficiently and easily integrated into the local/distribution-specific software installation utility. Scott Williams made[10] The Case for Open Source. Paul W. Frields announced[11] that after working with the Red Hat legal department to revise the Fedora Trademark guidelines, a new version has been released. Among other changes the changes should make building remixes and unofficial spins easier. Chitlesh Goorah posted[12] about the goals of Fedora Electronic Lab[13] (FEL) and also how the project bridges the Open Source software and hardware communities. 1. http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=879 2. http://iquaid.org/2009/02/28/failure-as-the-secret-of-success/ 3. http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=783 4. http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/20_Seconds_Boot_Feature_Test_Day 5. http://danielsmw.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/user-guide-practicum-theory/ 6. http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/2009030319.html 7. http://wb8rcr.multiply.com/journal/item/98/Join_Fedora 8. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/03/05/application-installing/ 9. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/packagekit/plain/docs/app-install-v1.draft 10. http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-case-for-open-source/ 11. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1507 12. http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2009/03/fels-solutions-for-design-centre.html 13. http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/ === Education === Greg DeKoenigsberg started[1] working on a Sugar activity for 4th Grade Maths[2] called "Dungeons of Mongo". Remember, you too can potentially get a free XO as part of the Fedora Developers XO Program[3]. Chris Tyler announced[4] that the TeachingOpenSource.org[5] is open for business, "a neutral collaboration point for everyone and everything involved in Teaching Open Source". Greg DeKoenigsberg congratulated[6] Chris on the new Teaching Open Source community and provided some points that came up while visiting with people who are in the trenches trying to teach Open Source. Chris responded[7] and suggested that anyone interested should join[8] the Share this post Link to post
