New bodhi release in production
by Luke Macken
A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains
a number of bugfixes and improvements, along with some important process
changes.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates
ChangeLog
=========
- Package update acceptance criteria compliance
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria
- Disable direct-to-stable pushes
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/434)
- Minimum time-in-testing requirements
- Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been
in testing for N days (fedora: N=7, epel: N=14), and will
add a comment notifying the maintainer that the update is
now able to be pushed to stable.
- When someone tries to push an update to stable, bodhi will
look to see if it has the appropriate karma, or if it has
been in testing for more than N days.
- Critical path update changes
- Hide obsolete updates in our critpath view
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/447)
- Disabled strict critical path procedures for EPEL
- EPEL is back to the same process that it has always had
- Add a new nagmail message for unapproved critical path updates
- RSS feed & grid of unapproved critical path updates
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?critpath=True&release=F13
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/critpath?unapproved=True&release=F13
- RSS feed & grid of user-specific comments
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/445)
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/comments?user=lmacken
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?comments=True&user=lma...
- Package-specific RSS feeds of updates
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/339)
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?package=kernel
- Add more links to the package-specific page
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/TurboGears2
- Show 7 days worth of entries in our RSS feeds, as opposed to 20
entries (https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/339)
- Bodhi command-line client fixes
- Output now goes to stdout, instead of stderr
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/449)
(Thanks to Till Maas)
- Duplicate logging issue resolved
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613533)
- Support using --critpath and --type with --testable
- Link to the submitter and release on the home page & testing
list (Thanks to Till Maas)
- Made the suggest_reboot flag actually configurable
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/352)
- Notify the security team when an update is edited and turned into
a security update (https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/403)
- Only verify the autokarma thresholds if it is enabled (Thanks to
Till Maas)
- Only touch bugs under the Fedora/EPEL Bugzilla products
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/448)
- Prevent the masher from pushing obsolete updates
- Prevent obsolete updates from getting auto-promoted to stable
- Obsolete updates upon deletion, as opposed to destroying them.
- Added more unit tests (up to 122)
- Link up bug numbers and other URLs in the text of comments
- Document the `newpackage` update type in the bodhi-client commands
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621828)
- Set bugs to MODIFIED upon submission
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/343)
- Added a `bodhi --push-request={stable,testing}` command to
improve our releng updates push workflow
- A new /updates/releases JSON API and python-fedora
BodhiClient.get_releases() method for AutoQA
- Have the build auto-completion widget query candidate builds
from koji, as opposed to looking in /mnt/koji/packages
(https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/173)
Bugs & RFEs
===========
Please file and bug reports or enhancement requests here:
https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket
13 years, 8 months
One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule
by Jared K. Smith
Today we held our readiness meeting for the Alpha release of Fedora
14. As you may know, this is a meeting with representatives from the
Development, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams. In
these meetings, we evaluate the list of blocker bugs and give a "go"
or "no go" signal on the state of the Fedora release.
You can read the minutes of the meeting here[1], but in short the
decision was made that the release has not passed its release
criteria[2]. When this happens, the entire release schedule is
slipped by a week, and we work to get things in better shape for the
next meeting. We'll get the schedule[3] updated in the next day or
so, but in general this means that our general availability date for
Fedora 14 has now gone from October 26th to November 2nd.
During composition of any further release candidates, the Fedora
Release Engineering and Quality Assurance teams plan to be quite
conservative in the updates they pull into the release candidates, so
that we don't inadvertently create more blocker bugs. I'd also like to
thank those who have really pushed hard to try to get the Alpha into
shape. In particular, the Release Engineering team put in a lot of
extra hours to compose our release candidates, and the QA team did a
fantastic job of testing the release candidates and knocking out as
many blocker bugs as possible.
While I regret the fact that the schedule has slipped, I'm confident
it was the right decision to ensure that Fedora 14 is a rock-solid
release.
[1] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08...
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_Release_Criteria
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
13 years, 8 months
Want to help pick the F14 Release Slogan?
by Robyn Bergeron
We need a slogan for the F14 release. A release slogan is a short
call-to-action that fits the artwork theme from Design, found at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#Themes. (F13's
slogan was "Rock it.")
If you are interested in suggesting ideas for the release slogan,
please take a look at the Release Slogan SOP, and the criteria for
selection, at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP. The
slogan must be:
* short (1-3 words)
* a call to action
* positive
It should reinforce that Fedora helps the user achieve something
great. It should also reflect some of ideas and themes found in the
release artwork, and, if possible, also touch upon the Four
Foundations (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations).
Please put your slogan ideas here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas
The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 17, at 21:00 UTC,
which is our next Marketing meeting
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings). We'll be
discussing submissions there, and then the FPL, Mo Duffy, and the
Marketing team lead (that's me!) will take that input and select the
final slogan on Wednesday, August 18. Let me know if you have any
questions, comments, or concerns -- and let the wiki table know if you
have any ideas!
Cheers,
-Robyn
13 years, 8 months
155 more python packages need to be rebuilt for Python 2.7
by Nils Philippsen
Hi everybody,
a lot of packages were rebuilt for Python 2.7 recently, but
unfortunately they've turned out to be not all that needed rebuilding.
Essentially, all packages that contain .py files that aren't
below /usr/lib(64)/python need to be rebuilt so that their respective
pre-built .pyc/.pyo files are built with the new Python version.
If the packages aren't rebuilt, python will either attempt to rebuild
the .pyc/.pyo files (and fail due to SELinux policy) during runtime (if
run as root[1]) or the program will take longer to startup because the
python interpreter needs to parse the .py files everytime (and can't
just use the respective .pyc/.pyo files since they're invalid).
The reason why this hasn't been noticed/why those packages haven't been
covered in the mass rebuild is because they don't require
"python(abi)" (which was used to find out which packages to rebuild)
even though the contained .pyc/.pyo files clearly do. This is because
the pythondeps.sh used by rpmbuild only adds that dependency to packages
which have modules in the standard paths[2].
Thanks to Kalev Lember who wrote a script identifying the affected
packages. Using its output, Dave Malcolm has just mass-filed bugs
against the packages which we could identify and he's looking to get
these rebuilt en-masse as well. Owners or comaintainers still would need
to file update requests so the packages actually end up where the users
can get them ;-). For this purpose, I've attached two lists to this
mail: one listing the affected packages and their owners and
comaintainers, the other listing the affected packages each person owns
or comaintains.
Please file updates when your packages have been rebuilt and nag us if
they don't get rebuilt in time, whatever that means.
Thanks for your help,
Nils
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621726 - 'SELinux is
preventing /usr/bin/python "write" access
on /usr/share/system-config-firewall.'
[2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623233 - 'python(abi)
autodetection needed for all .py[co] files, not just those
beneath /usr/lib*/python*'
--
Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase
Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty
nils(a)redhat.com nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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13 years, 8 months
Reminder: Bugzilla UPGRADE to 3.6 on August 13th 9:00 p.m.EDT [01:00 UTC]
by John Poelstra
Sending on behalf of Dave Lawrence. This will affect Fedora too.
REMINDER: Red Hat Bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com) will be unavailable on
August 13th starting at 9:00 p.m. EDT [01:00 UTC] to perform
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The Red Hat Bugzilla Team
13 years, 8 months
Fedora 14 Alpha Can Still Ship on Time IF these bugs get attention TODAY
by John Poelstra
It's been an exciting ride so far and we're embracing the peaks and
valleys of the Fedora release process in real time. Even with all the
recent changes and bugs we still have a shot at creating the Fedora 14
Release Candidate on schedule TOMORROW. Failure to successfully build
the RC tomorrow could put the Fedora 14 Alpha at risk and push out the
rest the schedule.
In order for Release Engineering to create the Fedora 14 Alpha RC, all
of the bugs below must be in a state of CLOSED or ON_QA by
tomorrow--Bodhi updates have been submitted and the packages are in
updates-testing. And, no new blocker bugs are identified before then.
If there are other bugs that are of concern that you believe meet the
release criteria, add 'f14alpha' as a blocker or ask for help on #fedora-qa.
Thank you package maintainers and testers for all that you do!
John
597858 :: NEW :: xdg-utils :: Rex Dieter :: "SELinux is preventing
firefox from making its memory writable and executable." crashes rawhide
firefox start :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597858
--waiting to confirm availability of new selinux-policy
620623 :: ASSIGNED :: distribution :: Bill Nottingham :: Packages with
unresolved dependencies ::
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620623
--need rebuilt dependencies:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620944
--need rebuilt dependencies:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621286
620949 :: ASSIGNED :: gnome-panel :: Ray Strode [halfline] :: [abrt]
gnome-panel-2.31.4-3.fc14: Process /usr/bin/gnome-panel was killed by
signal 11 (SIGSEGV) :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620949
--waiting for new build and submission to Bodhi
619889 :: ASSIGNED :: xorg-x11 :: X/OpenGL Maintenance List :: X.org
pegged at 100% CPU usage after booting with systemd ::
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619889
--waiting for new build and submission to Bodhi
615443 :: MODIFIED :: livecd-tools :: Bruno Wolff III :: booting live
images from nightly fails (can't mount root filesystem) ::
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615443
--appears to be fixed? Has packaged moved to updates-testing?
620900 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: traceback
on install of F14 Alpha Test Compose #2 ::
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620900
--should be fixed, need a new compose
617115 :: ON_QA :: livecd-tools :: Bruno Wolff III :: rawhide live spins
showing black screen instead of syslinux boot menu ::
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617115
--Needs Bodhi feedback
13 years, 8 months
Software translation
by Noriko Mizumoto
Dear package maintainers
This is kind reminder that it is F14 Software String Freeze today 03-Aug.
Please update your POT with latest strings. All translators will be
working hard to update your package translation.
To ensure high quality translations in the final release, please be
aware Software String Freeze Policy [1]. If you think that you need to
break the string freeze, then please ask for approval from the Fedora
Localization Team prior to breaking the freeze [1].
[1]:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy
Regards,
noriko
13 years, 8 months
