news 28 Posted July 28, 2009 * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 186 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General + 1.1.2 POSSE Roundup o 1.2 QualityAssurance + 1.2.1 Test Days + 1.2.2 Weekly meetings + 1.2.3 F12 Alpha blocker bug review meeting + 1.2.4 Xfce spin testing + 1.2.5 KDE QA tester request + 1.2.6 Bugzilla semantics debate o 1.3 Translation + 1.3.1 F12 Translation Team Schedule Proposal + 1.3.2 Translation Quick Start Guide Updated + 1.3.3 Publican Version of Minor Fedora Documents Made Available + 1.3.4 New Members in FLP o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Evaluating the Gallery + 1.4.2 A Small Icon Request + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Theming Progress o 1.5 Virtualization + 1.5.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.5.1.1 New Release libguestfs 1.0.64 # 1.5.1.2 Swap Use in Guests # 1.5.1.3 Clustering libvirt Hosts + 1.5.2 Virtualization Tools List # 1.5.2.1 Virtual Machine Cloning # 1.5.2.2 Virt Manager UI Rework # 1.5.2.3 Support for Processor Affinity # 1.5.2.4 Virt What? - Fedora Weekly News Issue 186 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 186[1] for the week ending July 26, 2009. In this week's issue, we begin with news from the Fedora Planet, including tips on running Fedora 11 on an Intel Mac, tethering Fedora 11 to an iPhone, and another in the series of XI2 Recipes. Quality Assurance reports on last week's Fit and Finish test day on power management and suspend/resume, as well as much detail on QA-related weekly meetings. Translation brings us detail of the Fedora 12 Translation Schedule, a new Translation Quick Start Guide, as well as new Publican version of some Fedora documentation In Artwork/Design news, testing details of the new gallery and an update on Fedora 12 theming, amongst other topics. This issue rounds out with Fedora virtualization goodness, including details on new versions of libguestfs, virt-what and redesigns of the virt-manager UI, as well as details on how to cluster libvirt hosts. We hope you enjoy this week's FWN! 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 The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue186 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- 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 --- Greg DeKoenigsberg responded[1] to slashdot[2] to correct what Nicholas Negroponte actually said regarding the Sugar UI and OLPC. "But what we did...was we had Sugar do the power management, we had Sugar do the wireless management -- it became sort of an omelet. The Bios talked directly with Sugar, so Sugar became a bit of a mess. It should have been much cleaner, like the way they offer [it] on a stick now." Jef Spaleta was excited[3] by the news that all of Launchpad has finally been open sourced by Canonical. Harish Pillay questioned[4] Microsoft's true motives behind contributing GPL patches to the Linux kernel. Martin Sourada quoted[5] Linus' response to the general feeling of hatred toward Microsoft in the Linux community. Daniel Walsh explained[6] how the SELinux "unconfined" domain works. Peter Hutterer added[7] part 5 to the XI2 Recipes series, explaining "grabs" and part 6[8], showing examples dealing with the client pointer. Steven Moix provided[9] a few tips for natively running Fedora 11 on an Intel Mac. Jesse Keating described[10] how to tether an iPhone to Fedora over bluetooth, for a truly wires-free internet experience. 1. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/52052.html 2. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1628228/Negroponte-Sees-Sugar-As-OLPCs-Biggest-Mistake?art_pos=3 3. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/45216.html 4. http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/162161.html 5. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/true-meaning-of-open.html 6. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/30084.html 7. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/07/xi2-recipes-part-5.html 8. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/07/xi2-recipes-part-6.html 9. http://www.alphatek.info/2009/07/22/natively-run-fedora-11-on-an-intel-mac/ 10. http://jkeating.livejournal.com/75270.html --- POSSE Roundup --- The Professors Open Source Summer Experience[1] just finished its Summer 2009 session, and here is a roundup of some of the Planet posts from the event. * http://gregdek.livejournal.com/52300.html * http://blog.melchua.com/2009/07/21/posse-monday-how-seneca-got-involved/ * http://blog.melchua.com/2009/07/21/posse-monday-helping-students-find-projects-that-make-them-come-alive/ * http://blog.melchua.com/2009/07/22/posse-tuesday-contributor-types-and-making-safe-spaces/ * http://blog.melchua.com/2009/07/22/posse-wednesday-our-classroom-setup/ * http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/07/24/fedora-has-a-posse/ 1. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE -- Quality Assurance -- 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 main track Test Day last week. The Fit and Finish project's Test Day track continued with its second Test Day, on power management and suspend/resume[1]. The event was a success, with several testers turning out, many bugs filed, and some fixed during the day or soon afterwards, especially relating to laptops with multiple batteries. No Test Day is scheduled for next week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[2]. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-07-21_Fit_and_Finish:Batteries_and_Suspend 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-07-22. The full log is available[2]. James Laska reported that he had published a blog post asking people to help with the process of writing Debugging pages[3]. Adam Williamson mentioned that he had looked into creating some of the desired pages, but did not know what kind of information was actually required for any of the components concerned. Jesse Keating suggested doing an informal interview-style session with maintainers to discover what information is needed, and then having QA take responsibility for turning that information into a finished Wiki page. James Laska had created a meeting time matrix[4] for the purpose of re-scheduling the QA meeting to make it possible for as many group members as possible to attend. The group agreed that the new meeting day and time should be Mondays at 16:00 UTC, moved from Wednesdays at 16:00 UTC. James Laska noted that a Fedora 12 Alpha blocker bug review meeting was scheduled for Friday 2009-07-24. It was agreed that Adam Williamson would send out an announcement of the meeting, and James would send out a recap after it had finished. Jesse Keating mentioned it would be good to do some Rawhide install testing prior to the meeting, but a combination of two significant bugs was preventing almost any Rawhide install from working. James Laska explained that a test compose for Fedora 12 Alpha was scheduled for 2009-07-29, and Liam Li had made an announcement requesting help on install testing[5]. Jesse Keating pointed out that it would not be easy for the general public to take part, as the test compose would not be generally distributed. This led to another long discussion about the practicality of distributing time-critical test composes to the public. No definite conclusion was reached, but a tentative agreement was made to look into a system which would allow access to such composes to members of the QA group in FAS. Jóhann Guðmundsson noted that there were some problems with Dracut, the nash/mkinitrd replacement being introduced as a feature in Fedora 12. It has no implementation plan by which the progress of the feature can be externally measured, and no detailed contingency plan beyond 'revert to mkinitrd'. Jóhann agreed to contact the feature mantainer, Harald Hoyer, to help develop a full test plan and contingency plan. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He has now automated the first four test cases in the Rawhide Acceptance Test Plan[6], and is now working on automating the installation tests. He noted that separate i386, x86-64 and PowerPC test hosts would be necessary for some tests, and that PPC might be difficult in the absence of the Fedora standard libvirt virtualization framework on that platform. Jesse Keating worried that the installation tests may be adding too much complexity to the system, and asked how much faster the process would be if only repository level tests were considered. Adam Williamson pointed out that the full set of repository level tests were the ones that had already been automated. Will promised that they would be updated to send the results somewhere publicly accessible soon. Sebastian Dziallas brought up the topic of a Test Day for the Sugar on a Stick project[7] - essentially for the integration of Sugar with a stock Fedora distribution. It was agreed that the SoaS project would host the Test Day themselves using the SOP created for this purpose[8]. A tentative date of 2009-09-03 was agreed for the test day. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[9] was held on 2009-07-21. The full log is available[10]. No-one had heard from Brennan Ashton regarding the status of the triage metrics project. Adam Williamson agreed to contact him by email to find out the current status, and ask if he would be interested in having a co-maintainer on the project, in the interest of smoother development. The group discussed the current draft of the critical path-based triage component list[11]. There was a general feeling that the list was very long and might contain components that, practically speaking, would not benefit hugely from triage. It also seemed to contain at least some binary (rather than source) package names, while Bugzilla is based on source package names. Niels Haase and Matej Cepl volunteered to adjust the list to use source package names, and break it up into groups for ease of digestion, for further review at next week's meeting. Adam Williamson gave an update on the status of the kernel bug triage project. He admitted it had not progressed very far as he had been focussing on anaconda triage. He outlined a plan under which a volunteer would, as a test, triage bugs on one particular component of the kernel, to see if the process could be made to work. Edward Kirk thought the proposal a sound one, and Adam agreed to try and put in into practice in the next week. Finally, the group discussed the 'Bugzilla Semantics' proposal Adam Share this post Link to post