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Fedora Weekly News Issue 178

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 178[1] for the week ending May 31st,
2009.

We have a couple changes of note this week. Oisin Feeley, who has been
on the editorial team for FWN and writer for the Development section, is
leaving FWN for an extended time period due to other commitments. We
will miss him and hope to have him back at some time. Adam Williamson,
who currently also writes the wonderful QA beat, joins the editorial
team at FWN -- welcome Adam!

This week's issue starts off with some poetry on next week's expected
Fedora 11 release, and much activity on upcoming Fedora activity days,
dev cons, and events. In news from the Fedora Planet, we learn about
SELinux sandbox, an overview on virtualization features in F11, several
musings on aspects of open source projects/communities, and a feature
interview with Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields. The Quality
Assurance beat details the QA weekly meeting leading up to F11 next
week, F11 FAQ work, and release candidate testing detail. Development
asks whether gNaughty is indeed a Hot Babe, detail on getting graphics
support working for the Fedora Live USB with the Chrome9 Vx800 GPU, and
suggestions on upgrading to F11 via yum. In Translation news, upcoming
F11 website translation details and a new member of the Romanian
translation team. This issue is rounded out with an overview of the
security advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 this past week. Enjoy this issue
and get ready for Fedora 11 a week from tomorrow!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list ( -at -) redhat.com

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue178
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

-- Announcements --

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3].

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

--- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) ---

This week's Fedora 11 announcements come with apologies to William
Butler Yeats[1].

Somewhere in the build systems of Fedora,
A shape with lion body and the name of a Greek king,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the impatient downloaders.
The schedule slips again[2]; but now I know
That 6 months of stony sleep
Were vexed to release by Jesse Keating,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards June 9th to be born?

1. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00011.html

--- Fedora Board ---

The Fedora Board's next public IRC meeting will be held on Thursday June
4th, at 1700 UTC[1].

Join[2] #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation, and join
#fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions.

1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00010.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#IRC

--- FUDCons and FADs ---

This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as
well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days.
-- Fedora Activity Days: Malaysia and Rheinfelden

At press time, two Fedora Activity Days[1] were wrapping up, one in
Malaysia[2] and one in Germany[3] for more information. See Max
Spevack's blog[4] for more information.

1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Malaysia_May_2009
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Rheinfelden
4. http://spevack.livejournal.com/81179.html

--- Fedora Activity Day: Development Cycle ---

In North America, Jesse Keating announced[1] an upcoming Fedora Activity
Day[2] "for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and
discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a
proposal on how to fix many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to
decide on a solution, it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will
then be shared with the whole community for more input and work."

1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00012.html
2.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009

---- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 ----

FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30
people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of
over 100.

If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page.

1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009

---- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ----

FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 120
people pre-registered for the event.

If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page.

1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009

--- Upcoming Events ---

Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!

June 8-10: FAD Fedora Development Cycle[1] in Raleigh, North Carolina.

June 9: Fedora 11 Release Party[2] in Managua, Nicaragua.

June 13: Fedora 11 Release Party[3] in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

June 12-13: VCNSL[4] in Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela.

June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[5] in Clemson, South Carolina.

June 14: Docs FAD ( -at -) Southeast Linuxfest[6] in Clemson, South Carolina

June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[7] in Portland, Oregon.

June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[8] in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

June 24-27: LinuxTag[9] in Berlin, Germany.

June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[10] in Berlin, Germany.

1.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora_UCA_jun09
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Wau
4. https://cnsl.org.ve/
5. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009
8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009
9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009
10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009

-- Planet Fedora --

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org

--- General ---

Michael DeHaan responded[1] respond to an article[2] by Matt Assay on
cnet (which in turn cited one of Michael's previous posts[3] on the
topic of "Recognizing and Avoiding Common Open Source Community Pitfalls"):

"Sure — building any sort of collaborative infrastructure is hard.
Yet there are those that want to sell open source as that (another
bullet point on a slidedeck), and then there are those that believe
software is open, that information should be free, everyone can work
together with everyone, we are all equals, and that we will keep no
secrets."

Daniel Walsh introduced[4] the SELinux Sandbox,a "policy that allows
users to build scripts to process untrusted content into some output
that they could safely use." James Morris elaborated[5] with further
points on the SELinux Sandbox and the problems with Ambient Authority.

Jack Aboutboul interviewed[6] Daniel Berrange, Red Hat Virtualization
Team Engineer "about the many key upgrades to virt technology in F11
focusing on areas of usability, performance and security."

Dan Williams showed off[7] the new NetworkManager network selector user
interface, to replace the old GtkMenu-based interface.

Susan Lauber continued[8] with Part 2 of a series on improving the
Fedora Wiki: "Using Special pages to assist with wiki cleanup."

Gary Benson published[9] an excellent introductory article on the
history and reasoning behind Zero and Shark at java.net. Gary also
wrote[10] a tutorial on Instrumenting Zero and Shark.

Jeroen van Meeuwen posted[11] an opinion piece on "Why the Open Source
Channel Alliance is bad for Free Software". Jeroen also mentioned[12]
that "Starting in July...I'll be mentoring a workshop on Office and
Infrastructure IT entirely based on Free Software and Open Source
technology..."

Martin Sourada chronicled[13] his preferred desktop applications
(including background information on why each program is used) to ensure
that he can run a FLOSS desktop using Fedora.

Paul W. Frields was interviewed[14] about Fedora and RHEL by Randal
Schwartz and Leo Laporte at Twit.tv.

1. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/05/24/earth-to-matt/
2.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10244853-16.html?part=rss&subj=TheOpenRoad
3. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/05/17/oss-pitfalls/
4. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html
5. http://james-morris.livejournal.com/41591.html
6.
http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-virtualization-reality.html
7.
http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/05/26/face-transplants-are-the-new-botox/
8.
http://travelingtrainer.laubersolutions.com/2009/05/using-special-pages-to-assist-with-wiki.html
9. http://gbenson.net/?p=137
10. http://gbenson.net/?p=138
11. http://kanarip.livejournal.com/14584.html
12. http://kanarip.livejournal.com/14756.html
13. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-desktop.html
14. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2481

-- QualityAssurance --

In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1].

Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson

1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA

--- Test Days ---

There was no Test Day last week, as we are deep in the Fedora 11 final
release run-up.

Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is too close to
the scheduled release of Fedora 11 for any testing to produce results
directly in Fedora 11 final release, but if you would like to propose a
test day which could result in changes for post-release updates, or an
early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC.


--- Weekly meetings ---

The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-05-27. The full log is
available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had again not yet
remembered to ask the Bugzilla team to add a link to the Fedora bug
workflow page.

James Laska reported that he was still not yet ready to send out a Test
Day feedback survey to previous participants, but continued to work on it.

John Poelstra reported that he had updated the current Fedora 12
schedule[3].

Will Woods reported that he had added a test case for upgrading from one
Fedora release to the next with an encrypted root partition[4].

The group discussed how to handle the installation test result matrix
wiki page[5] between release candidate revisions. James Laska committed