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Fedora Weekly News Issue 143
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 143 for the week ending September 7,
2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue143

This week Announcements trumpets the arrival of a new version of Bodhi,
the freeze of Rawhide and some essential reading on the new package
keys. In Developments we shock you with "Non-X System Consoles to be
Removed". Virtualization alerts you to "Virt-manager 0.6.0 Released" and
dives into how developers are "Laying the Groundwork for Xen Domain 0
Support". The ever entertaining Artwork beat examines "How to Select a
Winning Theme" and SecurityAdvisories provides a handy list for your
perusal.

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=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
Fedora 8 and 9 Updates

Jesse Keating wrote more[0] about the status of updates on Fedora 8 and
Fedora 9. "We're in the final stages of testing a few corner cases, and
preparing the official builds of fedora-release, PackageKit,
gnome-packagekit, and unique (needed as a new dep for gnome-packagekit).
All existing updates in the old update locations will be purged, and
just these updates will be put in their place, signed with our old key.
Once you've updated to these packages, the next update attempt will
point you to our new locations with our new keys and you should be able
to process any further pending updates. You'll be prompted to import the
new key along the way."

Additionally, "these updates are designed to transition users from our
old repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed
with a new set of keys[1]."

I encourage everyone to read both announcements, and also to visit the
information page on the Fedora wiki[2].

[0]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00006.html

[1]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00007.html

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Enabling_new_signing_key
Bodhi 0.5!

Luke Macken has been very active in Bodhi development lately[3].

"One of the most noticable changes is that bodhi is much more
responsive. Previously, bodhi was a single python process, running on a
single server. This single server was also responsible for composing the
updates repositories, and rawhide, among lots of other bodhi-related
churn. This lead to much pain and suffering for all.

The bodhi deployment has since changed. All bodhi requests are now load
balanced to a bunch of app servers, each running mod_wsgi with multiple
bodhi processes, each with multiple threads. All of the hard work is now
done on an isolated releng server. This separate bodhi "masher" is now
responsible for composing repositories, updating bugs, generating update
notices, sending emails, extended metadata generation, and calculating
metrics. I also added support for inter-bodhi communication, which
allows our bodhi web frontends to kick off push requests to our
bodhi-masher instance."

Plenty more new-feature discussion in the full email.

[3]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-September/msg00008.html
Frozen for Fedora 10 Beta

Jesse Keating announced[4] that Rawhide is now frozen for Fedora 10
Beta. "Rawhide will compose from the frozen content so that we all are
aware of what Beta is going to be comprised of. Extra scruitiny and
testing of rawhide over the next week is greatly appreciated."

[4]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-September/msg00009.html

=Developments=

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the