devel-announce June 2012

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Upstream Release Monitoring temporary down
by Till Maas 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi everyone, due to the recent Bugzilla update Upstream Release Monitoring[0] cannot report bugs currently. I noticed that there has been some recent activity in python-bugzilla[1] that might fix this. Regards Till [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring [1] https://fedorahosted.org/python-bugzilla/timeline

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Fedora Board appointment
by Robyn Bergeron 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

I am very delighted to announce that John Rose (aka inode0) will be joining the Fedora Board in the final appointed slot for this cycle (seat A4). Many of you know John from his work in the Ambassadors team and his excellent election wrangling for many election cycles, as well as being a familiar face in FUDCon planning, and his care for transparency in finances (and transparency in general!). I believe he'll be a fine addition to the Board, and I look forward to his contributions and participation. As John comes on, I'd also like to thank Guillermo Gomez for his work done over the past year as the Board member who has been in this seat. You will be missed! :) A friendly reminder, also, that the Board is always happy to have community input; please feel welcome to join the Board's mailing list at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/Advisory-board to ask questions or participate in discussion. Welcome, John! :) -Robyn

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poppler soname bump in rawhide
by Marek Kasik 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

Hi, I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.20.1 at the end of next week. There are several API changes (new functions + 1 move of a private function to public section) and 1 soname bump (libpoppler.so.25 to libpoppler.so.26). Regards Marek

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Fedora Board runoff election results
by Robyn Bergeron 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hello! The runoff election for the remaining Fedora Board seat has concluded. There was one remaining seat available. A total of 182 votes were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 364 votes (182 * 2). The results are shown below. # votes | name ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 214 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb) 188 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (FAS: bjensen, IRC: EvilBob) Therefore, Nick Bebout will take the remaining Board seat, replacing Jon Stanley. (Many thanks to Jon for his dedication and time spent with the Board!) And with that - I thank everyone for their participation in this interesting runoff election. News about the remaining appointed Board seat will be forthcoming in the next few days. - Robyn

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evolution-data-server/evolution 3.5.3 soname bump/API changes in rawhide next week
by Milan Crha 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hi all, release of evolution-data-server 3.5.3 and evolution 3.5.3 the next week contains API changes in the core part of these, mostly in a way how backends are authenticated and where the information about configured accounts is stored, together with single-include approach, thus expect the simple rebuild will likely not work. Matthew Barnes wrote patches for some other packages to adapt to all the changes already. In case you (or the upstream part) have trouble with the transition, feel free to ask at evolution-hackers(a)gnome.org . Bye, Milan

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Fedora 17 for Power GA available!
by David Aquilina 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Hello all, I'm pleased to announce that a piping-hot serving of Fedora 17 is now available for the Power architecture. Line up at your friendly local mirror to chow down: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/17/ppc64/ For more details, please see our release notes: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_PPC_release_notes Many thanks to all the members of the Fedora for Power community for their hard work this release cycle! To get involved with Fedora for Power, please take a look at our home on the wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC or join us in #fedora-ppc on Freenode. For the Fedora for Power team, David -- David Aquilina Release Engineer Red Hat, Inc.

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Runoff election for Board seat has begun.
by Robyn Bergeron 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Greetings. As previously announced[1], the recent Board election resulted in a two-way tie for the third elected seat, between Nick Bebout and Robert 'Bob' Jensen. The runoff election for this remaining seat has started. Voting began today, Tuesday, June 12, at 00:00:00 UTC, and will end Wednesday, June 20, at 00:00:00 UTC. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ENDING TIME COULD VERY WELL ACTUALLY OCCUR ON TUESDAY IN YOUR TIME ZONE. Please refer to a UTC time zone converter if you are unsure of your time zone's relation to UTC, such as: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting For more general information about the election, including eligibility information, please refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections As noted in previous announcements for elections, information about the candidates may be seen here: Fedora Board: * Nominations and questionnaire answers: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations#Board_2012_F18_El… * Town Hall Logs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#Fedora_Project_Board Please remember to cast your vote! Cheers, -Robyn [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-June/003084.html

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Election Results for Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo seats
by Robyn Bergeron 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Greetings, patient friends: The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) have concluded, and the results are shown below. Apparently, we like to keep things interesting around here; the improbable situation of having a tie for a seat has occurred. Read on for details! * * * FESCo is electing 5 seats this cycle. A total of 236 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1,888 votes (236 * 8). The results for the FESCo elections are as follows: # votes | name -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1319 | Kevin Fenzi (FAS: kevin, IRC: nirik) 1208 | Bill Nottingham (FAS: notting, IRC: notting) 1028 | Tomáš Mráz (FAS: tmraz, IRC: t8m) 901 | Peter Jones (FAS: pjones, IRC: pjones) 890 | Josh Boyer (FAS: jwboyer, IRC: jwb) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 844 | Stephen Gallagher (FAS: sgallagh, IRC: sgallagh) 474 | John Dulaney (FAS:jdulaney, IRC: j_dulaney) 350 | Keiran Smith (FAS:affix, IRC:affix) Therefore, Kevin Fenzi, Bill Nottingham, Tomáš Mráz, Peter Jones, and Josh Boyer are each elected to FESCo for a full two-release term. * * * FAmSCo is electing 7 seats this cycle. As this is a special transitional election for FAmSCo, all seven seats are open for election. The four candidates receiving the most votes will be seated for two release cycles and the next three candidates by vote count will be seated for one release cycle. As those terms expire, future elections will be held each release to fill the open seats for two release terms. A total of 207 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1,863 votes (207 * 9). # votes | name -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1152 | Christoph Wickert (FAS: cwickert, IRC: cwickert) 887 | Jiri Eischmann (FAS: eischmann, IRC: sesivany) 796 | Clint Savage (FAS: herlo, IRC: herlo) 576 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 553 | Alejandro Perez (FAS: aeperezt, IRC: aeperezt) 543 | Daniel Bruno (FAS: dbruno, IRC: danielbruno) 512 | Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera (FAS: bckurera, IRC: bckurera) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 470 | Truong Anh Tuan (FAS: tuanta, IRC: tuanta) 340 | Arif Tri Waluyo (FAS: arifiauo, IRC: arifiauo) Therefore, Christoph Wickert, Jiri Eischmann, Clint Savage, and Nick Bebout are each elected to FAmSCo for a two-release term; Alejandro Perez, Daniel Bruno, and Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera are each elected to FAmSCo for a one-release term. * * * The Fedora Board is electing 3 seats this cycle. Atotal of 199 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 796 votes (199 * 4). # votes | name -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 534 | Peter Robinson (FAS: pbrobinson, IRC: pbrobinson) 505 | Eric Christensen (FAS: sparks, IRC: sparks) 358 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb) 358 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (FAS:bjensen, IRC: EvilBob) Therefore: Peter Robinson and Eric Christensen are elected to the Board for a full two-release term. Additionally: Nick Bebout and Robert 'Bob' Jensen have tied for the remaining seat; a runoff election will be held to determine the remaining seat, beginning Tuesday, June 12, and ending Tuesday, June 19. * * * Congratulations to the winning candidates, and a hearty thank-you to all nominees for running and participating in this elections cycle. -Robyn

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Outage: Host reboots - 2012-06-13 23:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Outage: Host reboots - 2012-06-13 23:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2012-06-13 23:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2012-06-13 23:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We will be rebooting various servers to bring them up in the latest kernel as well as some firmware upgrades on some storage devices. During the outage window various services may be down or slow to respond. Each particular service should only be affected for a short time as servers are rebooted. Affected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ QA Services Secondary Architectures Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - Domain Name servers - ns1, ns2, ns3, ns4 Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3326 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Here is the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- In Fedora, you can assume that the default shell (/bin/sh) is bash. Thus, all scriptlets can safely assume that if they are running in shell code, they are running within bash. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Default_Shell --- A bundling exception was granted for calibre to bundle their forked version of pyPdf. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gran… --- A new set of MinGW guidelines are in place for Fedora 17+. These guidelines reflect the existence of mingw32 and mingw64. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW Older guidelines remain in place for older versions of Fedora (and RHEL 6 or older): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW_Old --- A section of the Ruby Guidelines concerning the appropriate place to copy C extensions in the spec file template has been clarified and enhanced: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby#Building_gems --- Guidelines for usage of tmpfiles.d have been updated to better reflect the current stage of Fedora and other Fedora guidelines. In summary: * Dropped the irrelevant talk of "both systemd and upstart" * Prefer talking of /run everywhere instead of /var/run * Ship the packaged files in %{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/, not %{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/. * Do not mark the files as %config and add an explanation why. * Use the more usual 'd' specifier instead of 'D'. * Nudge packagers into thinking about the permission mode of their directories, rather than copying the "0710" dogmatically. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d --- The systemd guidelines have been update to reflect the fact that unit files should avoid using StandardOutput= or StandardError=. The default is the right choice for almost all cases, and using the default allows users to change global defaults in /etc/systemd/system.conf. Also, all references to "After=syslog.target" have been dropped, as that is no longer correct or relevant in current versions of Fedora. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd --- The packaging guidelines now mention that the %make_install macro (*not* to be confused with %makeinstall) may be used instead of "make DESTDIR=%{buildroot}". http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Why_the_.25makeinstall_m… --- A new section was added to the guidelines to indicate that Fedora uses gcc as the compiler (for all languages that gcc supports). Packages may only build with an alternative compiler to gcc if upstream does not support gcc. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Compiler --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Kevin Fenzi, Hans de Goede, Vít Ondruch, Erik van Pienbroek, Petr Pisar, Lennart Poettering, Michal Schmidt, Rahul Sundaram, and all of the members of the FPC, 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: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~tom

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devel-announce June 2012