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Proposal: Changes to Fedora Server default partitioning scheme
by Stephen Gallagher 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

The following proposal comes out of the discussion at this weeks Server SIG meeting[1] Fedora Server will have: * / (root) will be a minimum of 2 GiB and a maximum of 15 GiB * SWAP will continue to be calculated automatically based on available RAM on the system * All unused space will be assigned to a volume group and available to be assigned to new partitions or extend existing partitions. * Anaconda will continue to handle the appropriate EFI and /boot settings We also discussed during the meeting whether we should have a separate /var partition by default, but the general sense was that we might be better served by developing a mechanism to allow partitions to be split from existing mount points, which would be more flexible going forward. As we did not have quorum in the meeting by the point we got to this proposal, I'm taking it to the list for discussion and votes. For the record, the current behavior of the partitioning scheme is for / to be given up to 50 GiB of space and then any remaining space after that is assigned to a separate /home partition. [1] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-03-15/serversig.201…

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Cockpit motd support
by Allison Karlitskaya 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

hi, Cockpit 169 (released today) contains a change to take advantage of the recently added PAM support for /etc/motd.d to display a helpful note to the admin about how to start or access cockpit. The required PAM changes have already landed in Fedora 28. It seems that the PAM configuration of Fedora 28 (at least in our test images here) doesn't use pam_motd at all, though. I'd like to start a discussion about what would be appropriate here. We want at least a message displayed when people log in to an interactive session with ssh, but it might also be useful to display a message at the virtual console, before or after login. Thoughts? Thanks in advance, Allison

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Fedora 29 Talking Points
by Alberto Rodriguez Sanchez 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hello Teams, I'm Alberto from the Marketing team, I'm asking for help to complete the Fedora 29 Talking points[1]. Talking points are key highlights of the new release. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. They are meant to provide a short, effective answer to the question "What cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?" They are compelling, not necessarily comprehensive. Best Regards. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_talking_points -- Alberto Rodriguez Sanchez <bt0dotninja(a)fedoraproject.org>

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Cockpit 178
by Marius Vollmer 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 178: http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-178.html Summary: - Dropped support for KubeVirt You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 178 is available in Fedora 28: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-178-1.fc28 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/178

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Fedora 29 Beta status: RC4 incoming
by Adam Williamson 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

Hi, folks! Just a quick mail to let everyone know where we are with F29 Beta. We managed to throw together fixes for all the currently-accepted blockers (thanks to the dnf team for help there), so an RC4 (aka Beta- 1.4) is currently composing. Compared to RC3 it contains a newer libdnf with a fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1629340 . It also includes a newer gnome-shell with fixes for FE bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1628263 and also https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/140 (which kinda snuck in there), new builds of dnfdragora and dnfdaemon that fix two significant bugs for users of those - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1624652 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1629378 - and an updatedgnome-documents which actually works (that was https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1628244 ). The second Go/No-Go meeting will be on Thursday, so it would be awesome if folks could pitch in and help get as much testing done as possible on Beta-1.4 when it arrives. There will be an announcement mail sent to test-announce@, so look out for that. It will have links to the validation pages, which have the download links at the top. General exploratory testing would also be great to find any significant issues not specifically covered in the validation tests. It should arrive in around 8-9 hours, assuming the compose takes about as long as the previous one. Some of the media will actually be available from Koji a little sooner than that, for anyone who wants to get a head start on testing; to find the live images, for instance, go to this URL: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=closed&view=flat&method=cre… and look for tasks with the string 'Fedora-29-20180919.0' in them (*not* 'Fedora-29-20180919.n.0', those would be nightlies, which don't have the extra fixed packages). Thanks a lot, everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Dropping cockpit-kubernetes (Cluster, Image Registry, KubeVirt UI) in the future
by Martin Pitt 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Hello all, Cockpit's "Kubernetes" package has provided a web UI for managing Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments for a long time. In the last year it also got some initial support for showing KubeVirt[1] VMs that run in OpenShift. Since Red Hat's acquiring of CoreOS there are now *three* web UIs: OpenShift's own "OpenShift Console", Tectonic, and Cockpit's "Cluster" dashboard. The first two are meant to become one at some point [2] and currently see a lot of development; i. e. Console/Tectonic/Quay will be *the* web UI for OpenShift (including KubeVirt) soon. On the other hand, cockpit-kubernetes has been in maintenance mode for a fair while now - both because of that merging effort, and also because we haven't had (and still don't have) any development capacity for it in the Cockpit team. It's also rather hard to maintain, being written in a very old Angular version. So long-term cockpit-kubernetes will go away. As a strawman I would propose to still keep it in Fedora 29 (as it's past beta freeze already), but drop it from Rawhide. Thus there will still be a supported cockpit-kubernetes package for ~ 1.5 more years. cockpit-kubernetes also contains some support for KubeVirt. Apparently community interest has waned on that, and we actually haven't been able to build a recent kubevirt-enabled OpenShift image in four months -- [3] were the last attempts at fixing it. Thus we had to kick out kubevirt testing from the openshift image [4], and we'll have to kick it off the openshift-prerelease image as well if we need to rebuild it at some point. Once this happens, there is no way how we can further support the KubeVirt bits in cockpit-kubernetes, so I'd actually like to remove this from Fedora 29 already, in its current condition. Is there any interest from anyone to continue to maintain it? If so, then the best course of action would be to split it off into a separate cockpit-kubernetes upstream project, like we recently did with cockpit-ostree [5], and maintain it there (by a different group of people than the Cockpit core team). Of course we will gladly help you to set this up. Thanks, Martin [1] http://kubevirt.io/ [2] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-unveils-roadmap-core… [3] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/9479 and https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/9638 [4] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/commit/2795ceb8ee13 [5] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-ostree

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Fedora 29 Beta Release Readiness meeting
by Ben Cotton 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Dear all, Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for the Fedora 29 Beta Release Readiness meeting. This meeting will be held on Thursday, 2018-09-13 at 19:00 UTC. We will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the Beta release of Fedora 29. Please note that this meeting will be held even if the release is delayed at the Go/No-Go meeting on the same day two hours earlier. You may receive this message several times in order to open this meeting to the teams and to raise awareness, so hopefully more team representatives will come to this meeting. This meeting works best when we have representatives from all of the teams. For more information, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings. I will ask for readiness from each of the teams listed below. If there are additional teams that should be explicitly included, let me know. All teams and contributors are welcome to provide input at the meeting. * Ambassadors * Cloud WG * Design * Desktop * Documentation * Fedora Project Leader * FESCo * Infrastructure * Marketing * QA * Release Engineering * Server WG * Spins * Translations * Websites View the meeting on Fedocal: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/Fedora%20release/2018/9/10/#m9337 -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

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Cockpit 177 released
by Martin Pitt 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 177: http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-177.html Summary: - Storage: Support LUKS v2 - Support centrally-managed SSH known hosts - Drop support for Internet Explorer You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 177 is available in Fedora 28: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-177-1.fc28 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/177 Take care, Martin Pitt

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2018-09-04 (TUESDAY) @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora 29 Blocker Review Meeting
by Adam Williamson 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

# F29 Blocker Review meeting # Date: 2018-09-04 (NOTE: TUESDAY)! # Time: 16:00 UTC # Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net Hi folks! We have 7 proposed Beta blockers and 15 proposed Beta freeze exception to review, so let's have a review meeting on Tuesday. Note that Monday is a public holiday in North America, so I expect a lot of folks wouldn't be available; I'm proposing the meeting for Tuesday instead. If you have time this weekend, you can take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full lists can be found here: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ . We'll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they're not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F29 can be found on the wiki [0]. For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process, check out these links: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it's supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting Have a good weekend and see you Tuesday! [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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