devel-announce May 2009

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Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009
by Jesse Keating 29 May '09

29 May '09

We're announcing a Fedora Activity day coming up very very soon (apologies for the short notice). This activity day is 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. The timing of this is very short, so that we may have a chance at changing something within the Fedora 12 development cycle. Funding for the event was only confirmed a day or two ago, hence the late notice. If unable to attend (which most will be) but highly interested in helping with the process, we will be attempting to setup a Fedora Talk conference room to use throughout the event, as well as an IRC channel. We'll try to blog the process as well and gather feedback to be used during the event. If you will be able to attend in person, please add your name to the wiki page [1] so that we can properly plan the space needed within RHT. While the wiki page says that the page is still under construction, the dates are solid, the hours during the day are mostly solid, and the location (one of the RHT buildings) is solid. Please feel free to use the discussion page on the wiki to express your thoughts about the event and what problems you're having with the development cycle. Even thoughts on the initial proposal I drew up at the bottom of the wiki page would be welcome, although I do believe that this event will result in a proposal different from what is currently listed. Again we apologize for the short notice! [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle… -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release
by Jesse Keating 28 May '09

28 May '09

A late discovered and just potentially fixed anaconda storage bug[1] has necessitated another week slip of our schedule. The change is important but invasive enough to require re-validating our storage tests. We were already late in producing the Release Candidate and there is not enough time to produce another one and validate it in time for next Tuesday's release date. Therefor we have decided to enact another week long slip of the release. This gives us time to create a second release candidate and fully validate it and hand it off to the mirrors in plenty of time to sync up for the new release date of June 9th. As much as we regret slipping, we also wish to avoid easily trigger-able bugs in our release, particularly in software that cannot be fixed with a 0-day update. At this time we would only accept tag requests for critical issues. [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500808 -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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FESCo election nominations now open
by Jon Stanley 20 May '09

20 May '09

Election season is here again in Fedora! Nominations are now open for the five open seats on FESCo. The following members have terms expiring this cycle: * Kevin Fenzi * Dennis Gilmore * Bill Nottingham * Brian Pepple * David Woodhouse Any interested Fedora packager may run for FESCo, the only requirement is membership in the 'packager' group in FAS. Especially noteworthy is that 'provenpackager' or sponsor status is not required - this keeps the bar low for new members. Nominations are open through 29 May 09 at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations. More general information about the election process can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections

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Final Blocker Bug Meeting 2009-05-22 (Friday) @ 12:00 EDT / 16:00 UTC
by John Poelstra 20 May '09

20 May '09

Release Engineering is hosting a blocker bug review meeting this coming Friday at 12:00 EDT / 16:00 UTC to review and retest the remaining bugs on the Fedora 11 blocker list--https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=f11blocker This important task will give us a clearer sense as to what decision should be made on Tuesday, May 26 about the readiness of the Fedora 11 Release. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun. We'll be meeting at irc.freenode.net on the #fedora-bugzappers channel. Thanks, John

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One week slip of Fedora 11 Release
by Jesse Keating 19 May '09

19 May '09

In a meeting today between Release Engineering, QA, and various team leads, we decided to enact a 7 day slip of the Fedora 11 release date. The primary reason behind this slip is the state of our blocker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11Blocker&hide_resol… We cannot begin Release Candidate phase until the blocker bugs are closed or at least in MODIFIED state. We are not there today, which would be our last day to enter RC phase and still have enough time to release on the 26th. We hope to enter RC phase in the next couple days, and hit our new target, June 2nd. Freeze breaks for critical bugs will still be accepted, however trivial bug fixes should be pushed as updates via bodhi. Thanks! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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F12 Naming: Cambridge -> Leonidas -> <New Name>?
by Josh Boyer 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi All, It's that time of year again. Time to start the naming process for the next Fedora release. To recap on the rules: 1) <NewName> must have some link to Leonidas More specifically, the link should be Leonidas is a <blank> and <NewName> is a <blank> Where <blank> is the same for both 2) The link between <NewName> and Leonidas cannot be the same as between Cambridge and Leonidas. That link was "was a ship in the Union navy". We're repeating the collection process we used for Fedora 11 this time. Contributors wishing to make a suggestion are asked to go to the F11 naming wiki page, and add an entry to the suggestion table found there: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12 The naming submissions are open starting now until May 23. The rest of the schedule is outlined on the wiki page. So, put on your thinking caps and come up with some really good suggestions! Happy naming. josh

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Package Maintainers Flags policy
by Kevin Fenzi 18 May '09

18 May '09

In FESCo's 2009-03-28 meeting a policy on Flag usage for packages in Fedora was approved. Due to an oversight, this policy was not announced here. ;( Please see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Maintainers_Flags_Policy and direct any comments to FESCo in a ticket or via the devel list. Thanks, and sorry for the oversight. ;( kevin

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kde-4.3 beta1 incoming to F-12 branch
by Rex Dieter 14 May '09

14 May '09

The KDE SIG has begun importing and building kde-4.3beta1 in the F-12/ branch. Hopefully we'll finish up over the coming few days. Until finished, any other kde-related builds may go wonky. Let us know if you have any questions or problems. -- Rex

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Upcoming Bugzilla Changes
by John Poelstra 12 May '09

12 May '09

Summer is almost here and things are about to heat up (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere!) with the release of Fedora 11. With each new Fedora release comes some Bugzilla housekeeping. This e-mail is designed to let you know about two things happening around May 26, 2009 (Fedora 11 day) and what you need to do, if anything. (1) We will be automatically changing the version all rawhide bugs to Fedora 11. This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 11 development cycle being changed to version '11' instead of their current assignment, 'rawhide'. This is done in order to more accurately tell where in the lineage of releases the bug was last reported because over time 'rawhide' becomes ambiguous. Note that this procedure does not apply to bugs that are against component 'Package Review' or bugs that have the 'FutureFeature' or 'Tracking' keywords set. They will stay open as rawhide bugs indefinitely. If you do not want your bugs changed to version '11', add the FutureFeature keyword. If you need help changing a large amount of bugs manually, we'd be glad to help. Stop by #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net and we'll help you. (2) All bugs for upcoming EOL releases (at this point, Fedora 9) will get a comment on release day, explaining that one month of maintenance remains. These bugs must move to a later version if still applicable or they will be automatically closed in one month with a resolution of WONTFIX. More about these processes is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Thanks for reading, John (for the Bug Triage team)

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fedora-release-11-1
by Jesse Keating 11 May '09

11 May '09

Tomorrow's rawhide with have the fedora-release package I hope will be final version for Fedora 11. It enables the fedora and updates repos, and disables the rawhide repo. Mirrormanager will redirect requests for the fedora 11 repo to the public rawhide directory until we're ready to release. This allows people to easily transition into the Fedora 11 release without having to modify config files. If you wish to remain on Fedora 11, make sure that the .repo files as shipped with this package are the ones in use. Check for .rpmnew files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and compare them to your existing .repo files to take into account any new configuration. We do have a number of Fedora 11 updates and testing updates already pushed, these are things that maintainers felt were not suitable to break the devel freeze and instead wished to push them as "zero day" updates. Feedback in bodhi would be greatly appreciated for these packages if you wish to try them. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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