news 28 Posted June 8, 2009 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 179[1] for the week ending June 7, 2009. In this, the issue immediately prior to the impending release of Fedora 11, we have a fine bevy of news for you. Fedora elections are open for voting in the various positions, please participate if you are eligible. John Polestra has also been elected to the Fedora Board for a two release term. From around the Fedora Planet, Fedora 11 podcasts, details on fingerprint authentication in F11, and thoughts on ensuring Fedora teams sustainability from Fedora leader Paul W. Frields. In Ambassadors, a reminder to please send in news about upcoming Fedora events in your area. In QA news, details on this past weekly meeting, deeply focused in pre-Fedora 11 final testing and pre-upgrade status. In the Translation beat, the release notes for Fedora 11 have been completed and are ready for translation rebuild after the Fedora 11 Release Announcement. The Fedora Localization Project welcomed new contributors for Latvian and Russian, Chinese, Italian, traditional Chinese and Korean and Spa nish this past week! The Fedora Design team is already thinking about Fedora 12 'themeability' of some of the proposed codenames for F12. Also some great artwork for an upcoming FUDCon in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. In Security news, details on .ORG becoming the first top-level domain to sign their zone with DNSSEC and implications for other domains. Our issue this week rounds up with news from virtualization teams, including updates on libvirt 0.6.4, thoughts of virtualization features for Fedora 12, and much more. Enjoy! We are still looking for several writers to take up dormant beats in Fedora development, OLPC, and other potential areas. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list ( -at -) redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue179 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- Fedora 11 is coming on Tuesday June 9. Check out the tour[1]. Rawhide has officially moved to Fedora 12 content[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg00001.html --- Elections --- By the time you are reading this, the current round of Fedora elections will be taking place. All the information[1] that you need for voting is included in the reference link. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00004.html ---- Fedora Board ---- John Poelstra[1] has been appointed to the Fedora Board, for a two-release term. Paul Frields[2] wrote[3], "Many of our contributors know John from his work in many capacities around the Project, from work with the Fedora Bug Zappers, maintaining our release schedule, and facilitating meetings for many of our community teams. He will bring a unique perspective and experience to our team." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00002.html --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. ---- Fedora Activity Day: Development Cycle ---- In North America, Jesse Keating announced[1] an upcoming Fedora Activity Day[2] "for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to decide on a solution, it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will then be shared with the whole community for more input and work." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00012.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got over 130 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! June 8-10: FAD Fedora Development Cycle[1] in Raleigh, North Carolina. June 9: Fedora 11 Release Party[2] in Managua, Nicaragua. June 13: Fedora 11 Release Party[3] in Wageningen, The Netherlands. June 12-13: VCNSL[4] in Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela. June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[5] in Clemson, South Carolina. June 14: Docs FAD ( -at -) Southeast Linuxfest[6] in Clemson, South Carolina June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[7] in Portland, Oregon. June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[8] in Porto Alegre, Brazil. June 24-27: LinuxTag[9] in Berlin, Germany. June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[10] in Berlin, Germany. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora_UCA_jun09 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Wau 4. http://cnsl.org.ve/ 5. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/ 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Thorsten Leemhuis explained[1] why he believes that Fedora should ensure that kmods work well, while leaving the actual kmods themselves in RPM Fusion. Jack Aboutboul linked[2] to the Fedora 11 Podcast interview with Jonathan Dieter about Presto, which allows users to update their RPM-based system without having to download entire RPM files (only their deltas are downloaded). Jef Spaleta announced[3] that a record 1,996,040 unique IPs accessed fedoraproject.org over May 2009. Peter Hutterer explained[4] how X handles mouse button mappings (it's not as easy as you think!) and continued[5] with "XI2 Recipes, Part 1" and example programs that can support multiple mouse cursors and keyboard foci. Karsten Wade wrote[6] about the process necessary to vote in the FESCo and Fedora Board election, from signing the CLA to joining a contributing sub-project. Jack Aboutboul interviewed[7] Bastien Nocera, "long time Fedora Contributor and Desktop Renaissance Man" about authentication and fingerprinting in F11/12. Dave Malcolm released[8] a new version (0.4) of squeal, the command line text query tool, with a number of new features include the ability to handle arbitrary text files (split on whitespace like awk, or use regular expressions) and support for pcap (tcpdump/wireshark) dump files. Max Spevack answered[9] the age-old question "why is Fedora always released on a Tuesday?" Paul W. Frields published[10] a "Fedora teams’ call to action" which might be described as a number of important points to make Fedora teams more "sustainable" (how would a team cope if a contributor was eaten by a dinosaur?) 1. http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/06/leave-kmods-in-rpm-fusion-but-make-sure.html 2. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-podcast-series-5-presto-with.html 3. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/43194.html 4. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/06/button-mapping-in-x.html 5. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/05/xi2-recipes-part-1.html 6. http://iquaid.org/2009/06/03/power-from-the-people-power-for-the-people/ 7. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-raise-thy-might-finger.html 8. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3069.html 9. http://spevack.livejournal.com/82143.html 10. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2500 -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora 11 released this week --- Fedora 11 will be released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, as we are deep in the Fedora 11 final release run-up. Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is too close to the scheduled release of Fedora 11 for any testing to produce results directly in Fedora 11 final release, but if you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-06-03. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had finally remembered to ask the Bugzilla team to add a link to the Fedora bug workflow page[3] from the Bugzilla page[4]. This has been done, and the link will show up with the next refresh of Bugzilla. James Laska reported that he has now sent out the survey about Fedora 11 Test Days, asking participants for feedback on how the events went and any possible improvements that could be made[5]. Some feedback had already been received, and much more was expected. Will Woods reported that he had added two test cases for preupgrade [6], [7], and updated the release candidate test matrix for RC3[8]. Share this post Link to post
