Fedora Week News, Issue 142

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 142
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 142 for the week ending September 7,
2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue142

This week in Announcements we alert you to the "Fedora 10 Beta Freeze
Coming Soon" and the new "FESCo Issue Tracking". In PlanetFedora "Tech
Tidbits" contains some juicy morsels on evaluating package sizes and
Haskell. In Developments we examine the process of "Getting Back On Our
Feet" after the intrusions. SecurityAnnouncements finally has some
content. Artwork covers "Working on a Sound Theme" and the acceptance of
the "Echo Icon Theme as a Fedora 10 Feature"

Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events and
activities in the Fedora community. If you are interested in
contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1].

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

=Announcements=

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
Echo Monthly News, Issue 1

Martin Sourada announced[0] the availability of the premiere issue of
"Echo Monthly News[1]." Said Martin, "Since it's our first release it is
not perfect and therefore we will appreciate any feedback, suggestions
for improvement, etc. at the fedora-art-list and #fedora-art at
irc.freenode.net."

[0]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00001.html

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/MonthlyNews/Issue1
Fedora 10 Beta Freeze Coming Soon

Jesse Keating discussed[2] the Fedora 10 Beta schedule. "The new freeze
date is Sept. 9, which is in 7 days. This is a friendly reminder that
the freeze is coming up, and coming up quickly. I realize that rawhide
has been less than great lately, and we're working quite hard to fix the
issues."

[2]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-September/msg00000.html
Fedora 8 and 9 Updates Status

Jesse Keating wrote[3] about the status of updates on Fedora 8 and
Fedora 9. "We have done a successful compose of all the existing and as
of yesterday pending updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9, all signed with
our new keys. These updates will soon hit mirrors in a new set of
directory locations. What we don't have quite yet is the updated
fedora-release package in the old updates location that will get you the
new keys and the new repo locations. The last mile testing of this
update requires that new updates be live on the mirrors."

For the full announcement, follow the link below.

[3]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00002.html
FESCo Issue Tracking

Kevin Fenzi announced[4] the new FESCo issue-tracking tool. "In the
past, interested parties could bring matters to the attention of FESCo
in several ways: Mailing the chair, following up to the schedule posting
on the devel list asking for a new topic to be added, or attending
meetings on irc and bringing up the topic at the end of the meeting in
the Open Discussion phase.

While these methods work well for issues that simply need a bit of
discussion and a decision, longer term issues that should be tracked and
discussed further sometimes are forgotten."

[4]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00003.html

=Planet Fedora=

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

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

Cambridge

John Poelstra wrote[0] about the revised Fedora 10 schedule, which as
been moved to account for the infrastructure problems that we faced a
few weeks ago. "Last week the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee
(FESCo) ratified the updated schedule proposed by the Release
Engineering team. This resulted in feature freeze for Fedora moving to
2008-09-09 and GA to 2008-11-18. This three week change to the schedule
was to accommodate the recent infrastructure outages."

[0] http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/fedora-10-schedule-update/

Another Fedora Test Day is in the books, and James Laska wrote[1] about
it on his blog. "There was a really strong developer turn out for this
Test Day. In addition to David Huff, the appliance-tools developer, some
of the oVirt team showed up to help walk through oVirt's use of
appliance-tools. This was tremendously helpful to see how
appliance-tools can be used by other projects. Thanks to Alan Pevec,
Bryan Kearney and Darryl Pierce from the oVirt team for joining the
event. Having such a tight feedback loop with the developers during Test
Days has been very helpful, I hope we can continue with that format."

[1] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/1444.html

=Artwork=

Nicu Buculei posted[2] the latest iterations of some of the potential
Fedora 10 artwork themes. "The second round in the process of creating a
visual theme for Fedora 10 ended yesterday, those are the proposals
meeting the requirement and which will pass into the third (last) round
(listed in chronological order)."

Your beat writer is particularly fond of the Gears/Steampunk theme as
well as the Solar theme, but thinks that all four are fantastic pieces
of art, and should be carried over into Fedora 11's proposals.

[2] http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/09/fedora-10-themes-round-2.html

Tech Tidbits

Yaakov Nemoy reported[3] on the state of Haskell in Fedora. "After
nearly 9 months, I am finally at the point I wanted to be regarding
Haskell. Last January i wanted to submit packages for my favourite
window manager to Fedora. I got blocked because of a lack of packaging
guidelines and familiarity with Haskell or the Glasgow Haskell Compiler."

[3]
http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/09/finally-done-with-haskell-things.html

Continuing his habit of posting yum-related tutorials, James Antill
posted[4] a quick explanation of packages sizes in yum and rpm.

"It's pretty common to think that a specific thing always has a specific
size, and people tend to think of an "rpm package" as a single object
thus. the it's common to ask what is "the size of an rpm". However if
you have a 1MB text file, and gzip compresses it to 50KB which you then
upload to a HTTP server you now have at least 3 different sizes: text
size; compressed size and upload size (includes HTTP headers etc.) and
asking for the size. So it is with rpm packages, and their many sizes."

[4] http://illiterat.livejournal.com/6439.html

FUDCon Brno

FUDCon Brno is happening as Fedora Weekly News freezes, but there are a
bunch of photos online[5] and Max Spevack has been providing frequent
updates[6] about the event on his blog.

[5] http://flickr.com/groups/fudconbrno/pool/

[6] http://spevack.livejournal.com

=Developments=

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the