Fedora Weekly News Issue 216
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the
Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10
# 1.1.2.2 Build F13 collection packages for all
language translators
# 1.1.2.3 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting
* 1.1.2.3.1 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go
Meeting RESCHEDULED: 2010-02-25 at 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST)
* 1.1.2.3.2 Fedora 13 Alpha slip by one week
* 1.1.2.3.3 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go
Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC (2010-03-03 @ 20:00 EST)
* 1.1.2.3.4 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go
Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 Marketing
o 1.4 Ambassadors
+ 1.4.1 Fedora release party in Dhaka
+ 1.4.2 Campus Ambassadors up and running
+ 1.4.3 Fedora 12 is here
o 1.5 QualityAssurance
+ 1.5.1 Test Days
+ 1.5.2 Weekly meetings
+ 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Alpha
+ 1.5.4 Fedora 12 update problems
+ 1.5.5 yum-langpack Test Day recap
+ 1.5.6 Updates-testing karma reporting script -
fedora-easy-karma
o 1.6 Translation
+ 1.6.1 Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks for Translations
+ 1.6.2 Transifex v 0.8 Release and translate.fp.org
Upgrade
+ 1.6.3 Translated String Missing from gnome-packagekit
+ 1.6.4 New Members in FLP
o 1.7 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 216 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 216[1] for the week ending March 1,
2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
In Announcements, we have several development items, including changes
for packaging guidelines, a call for F13 translation packages rebuilds,
and news on Fedora 13 Alpha RC4 decisions from last week. In news from
the Fedora Planet, thoughts on UX collaboration between conferences, how
to set up client and server certificates for use with Apache Qpid, and
perspectives on why the IIPA's position toward Open Source is
problematic and wrong. In Marketing news, an update on last week's
Fedora Insight sprint, work on a Communication Matrix for the Marketing
team, and detail on the past weekly meeting activities, including
decisioning the F13 slogan -- "Rock It!" In Ambassador news, an event
report from Dhaka, and updates on the Campus Ambassador program. In
Quality Assurance news, next week's Test Day focus on webcams, lots of
tasty detail from QA Team weekly meetings, and a new tool,
fedora-easy-karma, which greatly asssists in the process of filing
feedback on packages in updates-testing via Bodhi. Translation reviews
the upcoming Fedora 13 tasks in that area, updates on the Transifex 0.80
upgrade, and new members in the Fedora Localization Project for the
Russian, Traditional Chinese and Greek teams. This week's issue closes
with security advisory updates from the past week for Fedora 11, 12 and
13. Read on!
We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News
(FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues
that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet
Archive[2] and have a listen!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list@xxxxxxxxxx
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue216
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project,
including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and
Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
-- Fedora Announcement News --
There were no announcements on the announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx last
week aside from FWN 215 availability.
--- Fedora Development News ---
---- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 -
02/10 ----
Tom "spot" Callaway announced[1] the changes to the Packaging Guidelines
04/09 - 02/10. He said, "It has been almost a year since we announced
changes to the Packaging Guidelines, so this will be a long list. In the
future, we'll try to be more timely in writing up changes and announcing
them to the Fedora Community.
Here are the list of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: When
selecting which source to download from upstream and use in a Fedora
package, the smallest available (and Fedora compatible) source should be
used:[2]
The Fortran Packaging Guidelines have been updated: [3]
The Ant Sample Spec in the Java Packaging Guidelines has been corrected:[4]
The R Packaging Guidelines have been updated:[5]
The Scrollkeeper scriptlets were removed from the Packaging Guidelines:[6]
The Python Packaging Guidelines were significantly rewritten including
changes to address:
* Python 3
* PyGTK2 and Numpy
[7]
Dos2unix is no longer forbidden when removing DOS line breaks in a file:[8]
The Packaging Guidelines now contain a lengthy explanation of why
Bundled Libraries are not permitted in Fedora: [9]
The Packaging Guideline section on dealing with pre-built libraries has
been improved:[10]
Fedora packages no longer need to explicitly define a BuildRoot, as RPM
now always defines one:[11]
The Fedora Packaging Guidelines now contain more information on how to
deal with Conflicting Files in scenarios involving "common names": [12]
There are now Packaging Guidelines for Wordpress Plugins:[13]
There are now Packaging Guidelines for Globus Toolkit components: [14]
Since RPM now detects pkgconfig dependencies in all Fedora releases, it
is no longer necessary for Fedora packages with .pc files to explicitly
Require: pkgconfig :[15]
Fedora packages should contain man pages for all included binaries and
scripts, and if not present, Fedora packagers should work with upstream
to add them: [16]
There are now Packaging Guidelines for MPI packages: [17]
There are now Packaging Guidelines for proper usage of Environment
Modules: [18]
There are now Packaging Guidelines for proper usage of Alternatives: [19]
The Packaging Guidelines now have a section covering how to properly
handle filtering of Automatic Provides and Requires:[20]
The GConf scriptlets have been rewritten to use macros (and be much
simpler): [21]
The Guidelines concerning RPath have been clarified:[22]
The Guidelines concerning File and Directory ownership have been
clarified:[23]
The Emacs Packaging Guidelines have been changed:[24]
The PHP Packaging Guidelines have been changed:[25]
The Fedora Packaging Guidelines now contain a section on dealing with
Buildtime Macros in Source RPMS: [26]
A clarification note has been added to the SourceURL section, reminding
Fedora packagers to use "downloads.sourceforge.net": [27]
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC) and ratified by FESCo.
Many thanks to Pierre-Yves Chibon, Remi Collet, Mattias Ellert, Adam
Jackson, Jussi Lehtola, David Malcolm, Till Maas, Bill Nottingham, Orcan
Ogetbil, Rahul Sundaram, Alexey Torkhov, Jonathan Underwood, Ivana
Varekova, Ian Weller, Chris Weyl and all of the members of the FPC and
FESCo, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:[28]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000584.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL#Referencing_Source
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Fortran
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:R
6.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Scrollkeeper
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python
8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Rpmlint_Errors
9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
10.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries
11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRoot_tag
12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts#Conflicting_Files
13.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:WordPress_plugin_packaging_guidelines
14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Globus
15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines#Pkgconfig_Files
16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Man_pages
17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MPI
18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:EnvironmentModules
19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives
20.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering
21. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GConf
22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Beware_of_Rpath
23.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Ownership
24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs
25. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP
26.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Source_RPM_Buildtime_Macros
27. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Sourceforge.net
28.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
---- Build F13 collection packages for all language translators ----
Noriko Mizumoto announced[1] to the Fedora package maintainers, "This is
kind reminder asking you to rebuild your package with latest
translation. Localization team has been translating for updated and/or
newly added strings since the String is frozen (2010-02-09). To allow
translators to review and correct their latest translation in UI, this
is essential. This is different from 'Rebuild all translated packages
for Beta', this is added entry since Fedora 12[2].
"Build F-13 collection packages for all language translators" is
expected between 2010-03-03 to 2010-03-05. Please make sure your build
is completed by 2010-03-05, so that a live image to be composed on
2010-03-05.
The packages to be built are:
* ABRT » master
* anaconda » master
* audit-viewer » tip
* authconfig » tip
* chkconfig » master
* comps » HEAD
* desktop-backgrounds » HEAD
* desktop-effects » master
* firstboot » master
* im-chooser » trunk
* initscripts » master
* iok » trunk
* kexec-tools » HEAD
* libuser » tip
* liveusb-creator » master
* mlocate » tip
* multimedia-menus » master
* newt » master
* passwd » tip
* policycoreutils » HEAD
* pykickstart » master
* python-meh » master
* readahead » master
* redhat-menus » HEAD
* setroubleshoot » tip-framework
* setroubleshoot » tip-plugins
* setuptool » master
* smolt » master
* smolt » master-smoon
* sos » trunk
* switchdesk » HEAD
* system-config-audit » tip
* system-config-bind » tip
* system-config-boot » master
* system-config-date » master-docs
* system-config-date » master
* system-config-date » master-timezones
* system-config-display » master
* system-config-firewall » master
* system-config-httpd » tip
* system-config-kdump » new
* system-config-keyboard » trunk
* system-config-kickstart » master
* system-config-language » trunk
* system-config-lvm » master
* system-config-netboot » trunk
* system-config-network » master
* system-config-nfs » master
* system-config-nfs » master-docs
* system-config-printer » master
* system-config-rootpassword » trunk
* system-config-samba » master
* system-config-samba » master-docs
* system-config-services » master
* system-config-services » master-docs
* system-config-users » master
* system-config-users » master-docs
* system-switch-java » tip
* system-switch-mail » HEAD
* usermode » tip"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000583.html
2. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13/f-13-devel-tasks.html
---- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting ----
----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting RESCHEDULED: 2010-02-25 at 19:00
UTC (14:00 EST)-----
Adam Williamson announced as an important note[1], "...we are
rescheduling the Go/No-Go meeting for Fedora 13 Alpha. Previously
scheduled for 2010-02-25 01:00 UTC, it is now scheduled for 2010-02-25
19:00 UTC (14:00 EST, 11:00 PST). This delay is to give sufficient time
for the QA team to test the expected RC3 build.
The original announcement, with the new time, is reproduced below for
reference.
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting.
Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST).
"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering
meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular
release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."
"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
the QA Team."
For more details about this important meeting see: [2]"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000580.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings
----- Fedora 13 Alpha slip by one week -----
Jesse Keating announced[1] on the basis of the announcement[2], "Today
at the go / no-go meeting[3] we decided to slip the Alpha by one week.
This slip is needed to verify blocker bug fixes and validate new builds
of software necessary to fix those bugs. We are confident that the fixes
we have are valid, however we do not have enough time to prove them
valid. We will spend the next few days doing that validation. In the
mean time builds will continue to be pushed to updates-testing for 13,
and even to 13 stable, however critical path packages might not be
pushed unless they are fixing a release blocking issue. Once we've
validated all the fixes we will do more frequent pushes to 13 stable. At
this time we are not adjusting later milestone dates, as with no frozen
rawhide we are not taking away any developer time."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000581.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000580.html
3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-25/fedora-meeting.2010-02-25-18.59.log.html
----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC
(2010-03-03 @ 20:00 EST) -----
Adam Williamson announced[1], "Join us on irc.freenode.net
#fedora-meeting for this important meeting. This is Thursday, March 4,
2010 @ 01:00 UTC, which makes it WEDNESDAY EVENING in North America:
20:00 EST, 17:00 PST.
"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering
meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular
release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."
"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
the QA Team."
For more details about this important meeting see:[2]"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000582.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings
----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap -----
James Laska announced[1] the meeting summary, "Representatives from
Fedora QA, Rel-Eng and Development met on IRC to review determine
whether the Fedora 13 Alpha release criteria[2] have been met. The team
agreed that the Alpha criteria have been met, and to proceed with
releasing F-13-Alpha-RC4. For additional details, please refer to the
attached minutes.
* fedora-meeting: F-13-Alpha engineering readiness meeting
Meeting started by jlaska at 01:00:03 UTC. The full logs are available
at [3].
Meeting summary
* Waiting for critical mass . (jlaska, 01:00:25)
* adamw representing QA (jlaska, 01:03:02)
* Oxf13 representing Rel-Eng (jlaska, 01:03:07)
* Oxf13 wearing the notting mask, representing Devel (jlaska,01:03:21)
Why are we here? (jlaska, 01:03:44)
* The purpose is to decide whether the alpha has met the release
criteria (jlaska, 01:03:49)
* LINK:[4](jlaska, 01:03:54)
Go or No Go? (jlaska, 01:04:57)
* all desktop and install validation tests for alpha point have
been run (jlaska, 01:08:36)
* only bug blocking alpha is [5] - we have decided it's okay as it
has a usable workaround, so we should take it off the list (jlaska,
01:08:52)
* ACTION: Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from
F13Alpha(jlaska, 01:13:10)
* LINK: [6](jlaska, 01:15:09)
* IDEA: should KDE Live image be respun to address kpackagekit
issue?(jlaska, 01:16:44)
* source DVD is 5.0G (Oxf13, 01:20:49)
* IDEA: need to determine how to handle source ISO's for
F-13-Final(jlaska, 01:24:01)
* ACTION: several remaining CommonBugs? needing
documentation(jlaska, 01:25:15)
* AGREED: QA + Rel-Eng + Devel* agreed to proceed with releasing
F-13-Alpha-RC4 as the Alpha (jlaska, 01:26:09)
What's next? (jlaska, 01:26:38)
* ACTION: adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs?
issues(jlaska, 01:28:44)
* LINK: [7] (Oxf13, 01:32:06)
* ACTION: jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to
devel-announce@test-announce@ and logistics@ (jlaska, 01:33:34)
* expect to be fully staged for mirrors by tomorrow (Oxf13, 01:34:16)
Open Discussion (jlaska, 01:34:45)
Meeting ended at 01:36:45 UTC.
Action Items
* Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from F13Alpha
* several remaining CommonBugs? needing documentation
* adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues
* jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to
devel-announce@test-announce@ and logistics@
Action Items, by person
* adamw
* adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues
* jlaska
* adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues
* jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to devel-announce@
test-announce@ and logistics@
* **UNASSIGNED**
* Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from F13Alpha
* several remaining CommonBugs? needing documentation
People Present (lines said)
* jlaska (67)
* Oxf13 (41)
* adamw (32)
* juhp (10)
* poelcat (6)
* rhe (4)
* zodbot (4)
* skvidal (2)
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000585.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_Release_Criteria
3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-04/f-13-alpha-eng-readiness.2010-03-04-01.00.log.html
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_Release_Criteria
5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567346
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#yum-langpacks
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_Announcement
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the
fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the
following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by
community members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and
regional responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition
covers highlights from the past three weeks.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
Máirín Duffy asked[1] for a pony but really it was about "how us
designers could continue to collaborate after the (London UX) hackfest
was over. This has been a recurring issue, as us designers meet every
year or so, at GUADEC, at UX hackfests, or at GNOME Boston Summits (or
even other FLOSS events like LinuxTag) and we get some great collaborate
work done during the events – but it peters off after we get settled in
back home after the events." One other post from the hackfest was about
a presentation[2] on an icon usability study.
Matthias Clasen created[3] a new dialog for setting a user's password,
including visual password strength indicator widget.
Rajith Attapattu wrote[4] about how to set up client and server
certificates for use with Apache Qpid.
Richard W.M. Jones benchmarked[5] ext2, ext3 and ext4 with and without
LVM. Richard also cataloged[6] all 267 commands that Guestfish now
supports. And lastly, Richard introduced[7] "Tech Talk Platinum Supreme
Edition!" a new super-simple presentation software application.
Michael Tiemann explained[8] why the IIPA's position toward Open Source
is problematic and wrong. "The entire position taken by IIPA is
unbalanced. It relies on outdated definitions, special interests and a
fear of innovation and new business model opportunities. It blends them
together to abuse an outdated mechanism of the US government with a
condemnation that applies to the US itself."
Jeroen van Meeuwen experimented[9] with rebuilding all of Enterprise
Linus, including updates and Extras "in order to learn from it and take
away a couple of notes on the subject". Find out what Jeroen learned.
For anyone interested in making UserDirs (i.e. ~username) work properly
in Apache with SELinux enabled, Diego Búrigo Zacarão has [10] your solution.
1.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-one-where-the-designers-ask-for-a-pony/
2.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/charlines-icon-usability-study/
3. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/03/02/details/
4.
http://rajith.2rlabs.com/2010/03/01/apache-qpid-securing-connections-with-ssl/
5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/is-ext234-faster-on-lvm/
6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/guestfish-supports-267-commands/
7.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/presentation-software-sucks-introducing/
8. http://opensource.org/node/511
9. http://www.kanarip.com/node/1430
10.
http://diegobz.net/2010/03/07/enabling-apache-userdir-public_html-with-selinux-enabled-on-fedora/
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project
from 2010-02-27 to 2010-03-05.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross
One the most important things that happened on Marketing this week was
the Fedora Insight Sprint that took place on February, 28th. As
reported[1] by Pascal Calarco there where advances in several areas and
some interactive testing. This test included uploading some of beats
from Fedora Weekly News to Fedora Insight. Congratulations for all those
contributed in this sprint.
Nelson Marques started a document called Comunication Matrix[2] which
surely will help us at Marketing in many ways.
On March, 2nd, Marketing held its weekly meeting. You can see the log[3]
but the highlight was the slogan for Fedora 13. Later on the slogan was
released by Nelson Marques[4] so let's “Rock it!”
There was brought up the issue about promoting spins, and Paul Frields
made clear that errors were made[5], but we are moving forward and
future talking points will include spins[6].
All in all a busy week.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011875.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communication_matrix
3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-03-02/fedora-meeting-1.2010-03-02-20.00.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011908.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011907.html
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011901.html
-- Ambassadors --
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Fedora release party in Dhaka ---
Rejaul Islam reports on an event Asian University, Dhaka (Uttara
Campus), which became a release party for Fedora 12 last month.
Details can be found here:
http://maktrix.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/asian-university-dhaka-fedora-12-release-party/
--- Campus Ambassadors up and running ---
The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and
is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student
who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you.
For more information, visit
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors
--- Fedora 12 is here ---
With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an
announcement of 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 ---
Last week's planned Test Day on the use of SSSD by default[1]
unfortunately had to be postponed. The new date will be announced in FWN
when it is decided.
Next week's Test Day[2] will be on webcams. Well, that's simple! We like
webcams. We want them to work. If your webcam works, we would like to
know this so we can celebrate and bask in the warm, contented glow. If
your webcam does not work, this makes us very sad and we would like to
make it work. So, if you have a webcam, please come along, run a few
simple tests, and if it doesn't work, we'll do our best to change that!
Testing will be very easy and you'll be able to use a live CD or an
installed Fedora system to test. The Test Day will run all day on
Thursday 2010-03-11 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel.
If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13
cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in
QA Trac[3].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSDByDefault
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-11_webcams
3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Weekly meetings ---
The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-03-01. The full logs are
available[2]. Adam Miller reported back on his proposal for managing
membership of the QA group in FAS. He had created a draft proposal[3]
and started a mailing list thread[4] on the topic. James Laska thanked
him for his work. Edward Kirk wondered about the mentoring proposal,
asking if mentors were already lined up. Adam said that was not yet
arranged. He thought that any existing member of the group could be a
potential mentor, and new members could be handled on a case-by-case
basis. James asked if some groups document mentor responsibilities; Adam
replied that he was not sure. They agreed to revisit the topic next week
after further follow-up discussion on the mailing list.
James Laska reported that he and Adam Miller had forgotten to contact
the sectool team regarding the security spin QA proposal, but would do
so immediately following the meeting.
James Laska noted that the fourth Alpha release candidate build was now
available for testing, and linked to the test matrices[5] [6]. Adam
Miller said he would try to run the desktop tests for Xfce. The group
discussed the two potential blocker bugs that testing had so far
uncovered, an update installation issue #567346[7] and a traditional CD
installer disc swapping issue #569377[8]. They agreed that testing
should continue to isolate the conditions that would trigger 567346, and
that 569377 should be moved to blocking the Beta. The group also
discussed two dependency issues Kamil Paral had noticed during
installation validation but had not yet nominated as blockers, and
agreed they did not need to block the release as they did not affect the
packages on the physical media.
James Laska reviewed a topic from the Bugzappers group, where a decision
had been taken to rebase open Rawhide bugs to Fedora 13.
Will Woods and Kamil Paral gave an update on the AutoQA project. Will
noted that he had sent some proposed development guidelines to the
mailing list, emphasizing the use of git and suggesting small patches be
submitted to the list using git-send-email. He also suggesting creating
personal branches in the main public repository for anyone wanting to
work on large changes. The plan had been broadly accepted, and Will
planned to codify it on the AutoQA wiki soon. Will reported no progress
on the dependency checker test this week, as he had been working on
other things. He recapped that a working depcheck script was already
available[9] and just needed some basic testing, but the next step was
to work out exactly what the test subjects should be: testing individual
updates is not useful, rather some way to discover which group of
updates will be pushed as a set is needed so that the set can be tested.
He would work on this and report back to the next meeting. Kamil
reported that the group had held another design discussion[10] for the
planned results database, and he was working on some use cases which
would be available[11] later. Josef Skladanka had provided a draft
visualization[12] of the system. James Laska noted Liam Li's progress on
automated DVD installation[13], using dogtail to pass kernel parameters
into the installation. He was also looking into having the automated
installation set up the necessary environment for subsequent automated
GUI testing.
Kamil Paral asked how a serious bug in an accepted feature[14] should be
considered in regard to the release criteria. James Laska did not have a
definitive answer, but for now recommended documenting it as a common bug.
No Bugzappers group weekly meeting was held on 2010-03-02 as there were
no items needing discussion.
The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-03-08 at 1600 UTC in
#fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held (if
necessary) on 2010-03-09 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100301
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinCriticalPathWranglers:Draft
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088824.html
5.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Alpha_RC4_Install
6.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Alpha_RC4_Desktop
7. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567346
8. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569377
9.
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=autoqa.git;a=blob;f=tests/depcheck/depcheck
10.
http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-February/000234.html
11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_resultsdb_use_cases
12. http://jskladan.fedorapeople.org/dbschema.png
13. https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/107#comment:4
14. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569352
--- Fedora 13 Alpha ---
Adam Williamson represented QA at the Alpha go/no-go meeting[1] held on
2010-03-04 and also attended by release engineering and development
representatives. The group agreed that Alpha RC4 passed the release
criteria[2] and could be released as Fedora 13 Alpha.
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-04/f-13-alpha-eng-readiness.2010-03-04-01.00.log.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_Release_Criteria
--- Fedora 12 update problems ---
Matthias Clasen started a discussion[1] about the known PackageKit
bug[2] which has caused some Fedora 12 users to have problems attempting
to do the first post-install update with PackageKit, asking what could
be done to ensure the problem did not occur in Fedora 13. Adam
Williamson tried to explain[3] that it was currently difficult to
absolutely protect against this type of problem, as there is a catch-22
involved: if PackageKit has a bug which prevents update installation
working for some reason, shipping an update for PackageKit cannot
resolve the problem as it will be impossible to install the update.
Matthias explained[4] that he was in this case considering the symptom
rather than the cause, and was asking if potential updates could be
tested in batches via AutoQA before being released.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088922.html
2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553115
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088934.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088935.html
--- yum-langpack Test Day recap ---
Rui He posted a recap[1] of the 2010-02-25 yum-langpack Test Day[2],
thanking those who had attended and listing the bugs that had been
uncovered by the testing. Jens Petersen thanked her[3] for her work on
the event.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088966.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-02-25_YumLangpackPlugin
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088968.html
--- Updates-testing karma reporting script - fedora-easy-karma ---
Till Maas announced[1] his new tool fedora-easy-karma[2], which greatly
asssists in the process of filing feedback on packages in
updates-testing via Bodhi[3]. Many group members thanked Till for the
script and reported success in using it. Adam Williamson documented the
tool on the QA Tools wiki page[4] and the page on updates-testing[5].
Some testers reported bugs in the script, which Till promptly addressed.
Till also noted[6] that he had built a package for the script and filed
a review request[7] to have it added to the repositories.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088978.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Easy_Karma
3. http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Tools
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Updates_Testing
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089018.html
7. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570771
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks for Translations ---
In addition to the Final software translation period (including
translation and review) that ends on March 23rd 2010), new tasks related
to translation would be on track are on schedule for the upcoming week.
These include translation of beta release notes (11th March-5th April
2010), coordination with fedora-devel requesting for new builds of all
packages that have been translated (16th March-23rd March 2010)[1].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007058.html
--- Transifex v 0.8 Release and translate.fp.org Upgrade ---
FLSCo chair and Transifex developer Dimitris Glezos announced[1] the
release of Transifex v.0.8, code named Magneto. This release includes
new features like Translation Teams, Translation Reviews, Timeline,
advanced Notifications features, Subversion over https etc.
In response to a query regarding the upgradation of the transifex
version in use on translate.fedoraproject.org, Dimitris suggested[2] a
direct upgrade to v. 0.8 instead of v. 0.7.4 which has been staged and
is being tested currently . However, Paul W. Frields voiced his
concern[3] that this move may hinder the current upgrade process that is
expected to solve most of the reported problems faced by the translation
team. This was supported by FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto[4]. Piotr
Drag[5] pointed that the 'Translation Team' feature in v.0.8 is
currently not implementable in for transifex instance to be used in
translate.fedoraproject.org.
Paul Frields, also suggested that the bugs reported against the staged
instance be collected and the blocker bugs be marked to help the Fedora
Infrastructure team take decisions for the actual productization[6].
Currently, Fedora Infrastructure is on a freeze for the Fedora 13 Alpha
release.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007059.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007072.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007079.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007082.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007073.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007071.html
--- Translated String Missing from gnome-packagekit ---
In response to a query posted[1] by Danish translator Kris Thomsen about
the location of the string 'Add/Remove Software' (System =>
Administration => Add/Remove Software from the main panel), Domingo
Becker pointed out[2] that although the the translation for this string
existed in the gnome-packagekit package (hosted in the GNOME
repositories), the translated version is not being used on the User
Interface. Ville-Pekka Vainio informed[3] that this problem was most
likely being caused due to an error in the gnome-packagekit build
process, due to which the respective .desktop file is being improperly
generated. This has been filed as a bug earlier and has been discussed
with the package maintainer Richard Hughes. Currently, the error
persists in the development version.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007060.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007070.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007077.html
--- New Members in FLP ---
Dmitry Drozdov (Russian)[1], Cheng-Chia Tseng (Traditional Chinese)[2],
Illias Romanos (Greek)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007062.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007083.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007085.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* cronie-1.4.4-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036474.html
* drupal-6.16-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036472.html
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* sudo-1.7.2p5-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036635.html
* fetchmail-6.3.11-4.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036632.html
* drupal-6.16-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036619.html
* argyllcms-1.0.4-5.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036443.html
* automake17-1.7.9-13.fc12.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036428.html
* automake14-1.4p6-20.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036419.html
* automake15-1.5-29.fc12.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036413.html
* wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036415.html
* automake16-1.6.3-18.fc12.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036347.html
* puppet-0.25.4-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html
* sunbird-1.0-0.19.20090916hg.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036098.html
* thunderbird-3.0.2-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036097.html
--- Fedora 11 Security Advisories ---
* drupal-6.16-1.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036583.html
* automake14-1.4p6-20.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036447.html
* automake16-1.6.3-18.fc11.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036439.html
* automake15-1.5-29.fc11.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036426.html
- end FWN 216 -
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