[Call for Action] Deprecate TCP wrappers Today!
by Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All,
A gentle reminder, Today(2018-03-22) is Deprecate TCP wrappers[1] Test Day!
As part of this planned Change[2]for Fedora 28, this is an important Test Day!
TCP wrappers is a simple tool to block incoming connection on the application level.
This was very useful 20 years ago when there were no firewalls in Linux. This is not the case for today and
connection filtering should be done at the network level or completely in application scope if it makes sense
Removing this package from Fedora will remove a package from default and minimal installations
(removing the dependency of daemons such as SSHD).
It also makes the configuration straight-forward for new users (no shared files defining access rules, poorly reporting any errors to users.
Removing the dependency from all packages and retiring the package in the single release will minimize users confusion and avoids opening sensitive services after the update.
Since many crucial functionalities (OpenSSH and others) depend on this, We hope to test and see, whether it's working well enough and catch any remaining issues.
As always, the event will be in #fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2018-03-22_Deprecate_TCP_wrappers
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Deprecate_TCP_wrappers
Thanks
//sumantrom
6 years
Fedora 28 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting on Thursday, March 22 @ 17:00 UTC
by Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important
meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 28
Beta.
The meeting is going to be held on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 17:00
UTC. Please check the [1] link for your time zone.
Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering
meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular
release. This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting. Verifying that
the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team.
Release Candidate (RC) availability and good QA coverage are
prerequisites for the Go/No-Go meeting. If you have any bug on the
list, please help us with Beta release. If we won't be ready by
Thursday, we will use this meeting to review blockers and decide what
to do.
In the meantime, please keep also an eye on the Fedora 28 Beta Blocker list [2].
For more details about this meeting please follow the [3] link.
[1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/8824/
[2] http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/28/beta/buglist
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
Thank you in advance for your support.
Regards, Jan
--
Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
6 years
Proposal to CANCEL: 2018-03-19 Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson
Hi folks! I'm proposing we cancel the QA meeting on Monday. We'll be
mainly in F28 Beta validation mode this week: go/no-go is on Thursday
and we'll be trying to get things in shape by then.
If anyone would like to have a meeting, and is willing to run it in my
place, please just go ahead and send an announcement mail (and, of
course, show up to run the meeting on Monday). Thanks!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
6 years
[Test Day] Deprecate TCP wrappers on 2018-03-22
by Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All,
On 2018-03-22 we will be doing Deprecate TCP wrappers[1] Test Day!
As part of this planned Change[2]for Fedora 28, this is an important Test Day!
TCP wrappers is a simple tool to block incoming connection on the application level.
This was very useful 20 years ago when there were no firewalls in Linux. This is not the case for today and
connection filtering should be done at the network level or completely in application scope if it makes sense
Removing this package from Fedora will remove a package from default and minimal installations
(removing the dependency of daemons such as SSHD).
It also makes the configuration straight-forward for new users (no shared files defining access rules, poorly reporting any errors to users.
Removing the dependency from all packages and retiring the package in the single release will minimize users confusion and avoids opening sensitive services after the update.
Since many crucial functionalities (OpenSSH and others) depend on this, We hope to test and see, whether it's working well enough and catch any remaining issues.
As always, the event will be in #fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2018-03-22_Deprecate_TCP_wrappers
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Deprecate_TCP_wrappers
Thanks
//sumantrom
6 years