Outage Notification - 2009-06-15 23:00 UTC
by Toshio Kuratomi
There will be an outage starting at 2009-06-15 23:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 1.5 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2009-06-15 23:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
Buildsystem
Websites
specifically, PackageDB, Bodhi, and Fedora Community
Unaffected Services:
CVS / Source Control
Database
DNS
Fedora Hosted
Fedora People
Fedora Talk
Mail
Mirror System
Torrent
Translation Services
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1460
Reason for Outage:
Upgrading the PackageDB to version 0.4. This requires an update to the
data inside the database which requires an outage.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email
to track
the status of this outage.
-Toshio
14 years, 10 months
Fedora 11 Retrospective Happens Tuesday June 16, 2009 at 14:00 UTC (10 AM EDT)
by John Poelstra
Have you ever wanted to give your perspective on how well the Fedora
development and release process works, but weren't sure where to do it?
Now you have the perfect opportunity! For Fedora 11 we are having a
project wide conference all to reflect on the good and not so good parts
of the Fedora 11 development cycle.
There are two ways to get involved:
1) Contact your team lead to see if you can attend as the additional
person from your team
-or-
2) Add your name to the list of lottery participants for a chance to be
one of the five people randomly selected.
But wait, there is more! We are extending the cut-off date for the
lottery to Sunday. Here's a little tip between you and me... as of the
time of this email your chances of wining are 100% (okay, not exactly,
but right now nobody else is signed and if that doesn't change, then you
are on easy street! ;-)
Sign-up details are here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Retrospective#Lottery
Hope to see you there,
John
14 years, 10 months
Fedora Elections and Release Name Selection - Voting Information
by Nigel Jones
Hi Everyone,
The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora 12 Release Name choice have been
created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 7th June 2009 and are
scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 22nd June 2009.
All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting).
Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've
used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide,
currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/.
Fedora Board Election:
----------------------
This election, the Fedora Board is electing three candidates and will
appoint another two members.
Vacating the seats on the board this election are Jesse Keating, Seth
Vidal, Tom Callaway, Chris Tyler and Harald Hoyer.
John Poelstra was announced as the board's first appointee with the
second to be decided after the election.
The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:
David Nalley (ke4qqq)
Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
Josh Boyer (jwb)
Mike McGrath (mmcgrath)
Tom Callaway (spot)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf12
Town Hall Logs:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_Board_2009-06-04_1400UTC
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_Board_2009-06-05_0200UTC
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election:
-----------------------------------------------
For this election, FESCo will be electing five candidates to sit on the
committee.
Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Bill Nottingham, Kevin
Fenzi, Dennis Gilmore, Brian Pebble and David Woodhouse.
The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:
Adam Miller (maxamillion)
Andreas Thienemann (ixs)
Bill Nottingham (notting)
Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
David Woodhouse (dwmw2)
Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
Ian Weller (ianweller)
Jens Petersen (juhp)
Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
Kevin Kofler (Kevin_Kofler)
Seth Vidal (skvidal)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and
be a member of any other group.
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof12
Town Hall Logs:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FESCo_2009-06-03_1400
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FESCo_2009-06-04_0200
Fedora 12 Release Name Community Vote:
-----------------------------------------------
This community vote has been setup to choose the release name for
Fedora 12.
The choices for this vote were selected using community suggestions
from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12.
The options for this vote are in alphabetical order:
Chilon
Constantine
Orville
Rugosa
Umbria
To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora
Account System.
Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef12
***
I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement
for the June 2008 Board Election:
"I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity
contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look
when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any
government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have
a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones
that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project.
This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions
about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take
advantage of it."
***
This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but
for all three elections.
Thanks also go to Matt Domsch and other volunteers who have helped with
organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections.
Regards,
Nigel Jones
Fedora Election Admin
14 years, 10 months
Rawhide moving on to Fedora 12 content
by Jesse Keating
I've made the switch tonight so that rawhide will be Fedora 12 content.
This will cause a huge number of updates, if the compose actually
finishes, and will finish quite late.
For the next few days, attempts to use mirror manager for the Fedora 11
repo will fail. This is something we hope to fix at the Fedora Activity
Day next week.
Thanks for putting up with the delays as we try to get Fedora 11 out the
door!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 10 months
Action requested: check dist tags and conditionals
by Bill Nottingham
(If you've never used a construct like "%if 0%{?fedora}" in your spec
file, you can disregard this message.)
Many packages in Fedora use release-based conditionals such as:
...
%if 0%{?rhel}
%endif
%if 0%{?fedora} < 10
%endif
%{?fedora:%global _with_xfce --with-xfce}
...
I'd just like to remind people of the following:
- If you're using open ended conditionals such as:
%if 0%{?fedora} > 9
make sure you keep in mind what will happen if %{fedora} isn't defined,
such as in the case of a derivative distribution.
- If you're building for EPEL from a unified Fedora spec file, and have
separate %{fedora} and %{rhel} sections, make sure they do the right
things for any potential new releases, not just %{rhel} = 4 or %{rhel} = 5.
Thanks!
Bill
14 years, 10 months