Fedora Weekly News Issue 173

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 173 for the week ending April 26th,
2009.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue173

This week's issue starts with a welcome double dose of FedoraPlanet
coverage, providing news and views from around the Fedora community. Our
Ambassadors beat shares the LinuxFest Northwest experience. Developments
covers the controversy over "PulseAudio: A Hearty and Robust Exchange of
Ideas" and in Translation word comes of Fedora 11 Release Notes
proofreading readiness. Configuration conflagration of Wacom graphics
tablets is revealed in the Art beat. The Fedora Weekly Webcomic divines
an unbreakable future. We're brought up to date with SecurityAdvisories
for Fedora 9 and 10, and the Virtualization beat completes the issue
with updates on virtualization status in Fedora, with specifics on a new
libvirt 0.6.3 release, a new libguestfs 1.0.10 release, and KVM
migration support in Fedora 11, to name but a few!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

Contents
1.1 Planet Fedora
1.1.1 General
1.2 Ambassadors
1.2.1 Fedora first at LinuxFest Northwest
1.2.2 Got Ambassador News?
1.3 Developments
1.3.1 Fedora 10 Packages in dist-f11
1.3.2 Bugzilla Passwords
1.3.3 PulseAudio: A Hearty and Robust Exchange of Ideas
1.3.4 Re-starting udev
1.3.5 Fedora Bug-tracker Independent from Red Hat ?
1.3.6 FOSS Needs a Central Bugtracker ?
1.4 Translation
1.4.1 Fedora 11 Preview Release Notes Proof-reading
1.4.2 Fedora 11 User Guide f11-tx Branch Available
1.4.3 New Members in FLP
1.5 Artwork
1.5.1 Cleaning the Queue
1.5.2 Graphic Tablets
1.6 Fedora Weekly Webcomic
1.7 Security Advisories
1.7.1 Fedora 10 Security Advisories
1.7.2 Fedora 9 Security Advisories
1.8 Virtualization
1.8.1 Fedora Virtualization List
1.8.1.1 New Release libguestfs 1.0.10
1.8.1.2 Only libvirt Bug Fixes in updates-testing
1.8.1.3 Fedora Virtualization Status Report
1.8.2 Fedora Xen List
1.8.2.1 Dom0 Kernel Not Before 2.6.31
1.8.3 Libvirt List
1.8.3.1 New Release libvirt 0.6.3
1.8.3.2 KVM Migration Support in F11

== 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: Adam Batkin

The Planet Fedora beat recently took a short vacation, but is back this
week fully refreshed. This issue not only contains posts from the past
week, but also a few highlights from the preceding two weeks when there
was no coverage.
General

Eric Christensen announced[1] a new policy for deleting pages on the
Fedora Project Wiki.

Martin Sourada chronicled[2] a few of the many features that can be
expected with the upcoming Fedora 11 (Leonidas): Intel Kernel Mode
Setting, faster boot times, better USB camera support, touchpad
improvements (and a new tab within the Mouse Preferences applet),
PackageKit interface updates, the use of Presto to shrink updates
downloads (which could use some additional testing[3], for anyone
interested) and more. And with the release of the Synaptics 1.1 driver,
Peter Hutterer described[4] some of its new features, including
additional details about multi-touch support.

Seth Vidal analyzed[5] the Source RPMS that make up various Fedora
releases since F7 to find the average number of patches per RPM.
Happily, the numbers have been slowly but steadily decreasing.

Silas Sewell demonstrated[6] funcshell a new project to build a shell
interface around func with all of the features expected of a shell
including tab completion, persistent history and integrated help.

Josh Boyer mused[7] over "The updates conundrum" and the often larger
than expected number of updates in released Fedora versions. "When I see
a package update submitted that just takes a package to the latest
upstream release, I always question it in my head (and sometimes in the
update). I realize that upstream releases often fix bugs that effect
users, however the update should say that at a minimum and it generally
doesn't. Many times there is an update like this that seems to just be
'because it's the newest!'"

Luis Villa questioned[8] whether it might make sense to have a full-time
QA person for Xorg with costs shared across some of the many contributor
organizations.

Marc Ferguson shared[9] an Abbot and Costello "Who's on First" parody in
which Abbott attempts to purchase a computer from Costello.

Venkatesh Hariharan wrote[10] an article that appeared in Network
Computing's India edition, titled "Reaping the benefits of open source".

Lubomir Rintel scripted[11] a set of bash functions to automatically
label terminal windows (and tabs).

Matthew Daniels summarized[12] his experiences at POSSCON2009 (Palmetto
Open Source Software Conference) in which a number of interesting and
prominent people spoke including Red Hat's CIO, Lee Congdon, among
others.

Amit Shah re-evaluated[13] the performance of a number of Linux
filesystem and option combinations.

1.
http://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-policy-for-deleting-wiki-pages-on.html
2.
http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/04/random-leonidas-goodies.html
3.
http://rawhidewatch.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/yum-presto-delta-rpm-support-needs-testing/
4.
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/synaptics-11-and-what-your-touchpad-can.html
5.
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/patches-per-src-rpm-in-fedora/
6.
http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2009/04/22/funcshell-a-shell-interface-to-func/
7. http://jwboyer.livejournal.com/31668.html
8. http://tieguy.org/blog/2009/04/22/a-rumbling-about-x-qa/
9. http://www.fergytech.com/2009/04/costello-buys-a-computer/
10.
http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/04/reaping-benefits-of-open-source.html
11. http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/blog/entries/bashrc.html
12. http://danielsmw.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/posscon-summary/
13. http://www.amitshah.net/2009/04/re-comparing-file-systems.html

== Ambassadors ==

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

=== Fedora first at LinuxFest Northwest ===

Fedora was on hand for the LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham,
Washington, USA, on Saturday and Sunday, and Fedora was "first" insofar
as it was the first booth for folks come to when they entered the hall
at Bellingham Technical College.

Saturday was a busy day for Fedora at LinuxFest Northwest. Larry Cafiero
gave a presentation before the Fedora Activity Day, which drew about 30
people. The FAD at LFNW revolved around three different projects: The
4th Grade Math Project for OLPC, an F11 bug fest, and general Fedora
questions-and-answers. The flexibility of the event was its strength,
and its weakness was the timing, so while it was overall a success,
there were still a few bugs in the FAD system.

Karsten Wade gave his "Participate or Die" talk on Saturday afternoon --
a talk that is destined for a keynote at some fortunate Linux festival
(Open Source World missed out by denying it, pity). On Sunday, Jesse
Keating gave two presentations today -- sneak-peeking at F11 and Modular
Infrastructure Design with Messaging (the official name) -- and
sandwiched between them was Clint Savage's Fedora Remix gig.

A significant amount of buttons, media and stickers were given out, as
well as some T-shirts for the Fedora faithful.

=== Got Ambassador News? ===

Any Ambassador news tips from around the Fedora community can be
submitted to me by e-mailing lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org and I'd
be glad to put it in this weekly report.

== Developments ==

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the