o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST
# 1.1.1.1 F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine ->
?
# 1.1.1.2 Nominations now open for December
Fedora Elections
+ 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
# 1.1.2.1 Fedora 12 staged for mirrors, Rawhide
moving on soon
+ 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 QualityAssurance
+ 1.3.1 Test Days
+ 1.3.2 Weekly meetings
+ 1.3.3 Fedora 12 release
o 1.4 Artwork
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 12 Media Art
+ 1.4.2 Large Website Banner
o 1.5 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories
o 1.6 Virtualization
+ 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List
# 1.6.1.1 Guest Bridge Configuration with libvirt
and netcf
# 1.6.1.2 New Release libguestfs 1.0.78
+ 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List
# 1.6.2.1 No Xen dom0 in Fedora 12 Hopefully 13
+ 1.6.3 Libvirt List
# 1.6.3.1 Keeping Guest Configurations in Sync on
Multiple Hosts
o 1.7 KDE
+ 1.7.1 New Soprano Backends coming to Fedora KDE
+ 1.7.2 gtk-qt-engine retired, replaced with kcm-gtk
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 202 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 202[1] for the week ending November
15, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
In Announcements, the always-popular name selection process for the next
Fedora release is underway, and nominations are open for December's
Fedora elections. Planet Fedora contributes a look at the new Fedora
Community site, some benchmarks of improbably large filesystems and a
guide to using the Sugar desktop on Fedora. From Quality Assurance we
hear about some more AutoQA improvements and the last stretch of the
Fedora 12 release process. The Design team has been working on media art
and website banners for the Fedora 12 release. Security Advisories
summarizes the security patches released for Fedora 10 and 11 over the
past week. In Virtualization, we discuss creating network bridges for
virtual machines when using NetworkManager, and a new release of
libguestfs. There's also news on the state of Xen support in Fedora 12.
Finally, the KDE section brings us up to date on some new backends for
the Nepomuk semantic desktop system, and the replacement of
gtk-qt-engine with kcm-gtk for Fedora 12. Enjoy the read!
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/Issue202
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project,
including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and
Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST ---
---- F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> ? ----
John Rose, the Central US Regional Ambassador for North America,
announced the beginning of the naming process for Fedora 13[1] F13
Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> ? The full announcement:
"With Fedora 12 just a few days from release it is time to begin the
naming process for the next Fedora release.
Contributors can make suggestions for the name for Fedora 13 by visiting
[2] and following the instructions.
Remember there needs to be an "is-a" link between the name Constantine
and the name you suggest and this link must be different than all
previous links used to connect Fedora release names.
Full details of the release naming schedule are available on the above
link but please note than the period for gathering suggestions begins
now and runs through November 16.
So there isn't a lot of time, think up some good names, and get them
added to the wiki."
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00003.html
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_13
---- Nominations now open for December Fedora Elections ----
John Rose announced that the nominations now open for December Fedora
Elections[1]. Here is the announcement, "It is time to begin the process
of nominating candidates for the open seats in the following bodies:
* Fedora Project Board
* Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo)
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)
General Election Schedule:
* November 10-16: Nominations are open.
* November 17-23: Candidate questionnaires.
* November 27 - December 3: IRC Town Hall-style discussions with
candidates for the various elected positions will be arranged.
* December 8-15: The elections will take place.
Nominations
You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please
consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages [2] carry
additional details about the nominee which the nominee is expected to
write. Simply update the respective wiki page with your nomination
information.
Please thoughtfully consider how you can best contribute to Fedora by
serving on one of these important committees or by encouraging someone
you know who you think can make a difference to serve."
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00004.html
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
--- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS ---
---- Fedora 12 staged for mirrors, Rawhide moving on soon ----
|Jesse Keating announced that the Fedora 12 staged for mirrors, Rawhide
moving on soon[1]. Here is the full announcement: "I have just staged
Fedora 12 for our mirrors. We're doing something a little different this
time around. The releases/12/Everything/ tree will be open to the public
as it gets staged. This will allow us to give people who have "Fedora
12" installed now access to the "fedora" repo. We will then be able to
move rawhide along to Fedora 13. The Fedora/ and Live/ trees will remain
locked until our release date.
On this Saturday or Sunday rawhide will have Fedora 13 content. Users of
rawhide right now do not need to do anything to keep on Fedora 12.
Unless you have modified your /etc/yum.repos.d/ files, you will stay on
Fedora 12 as we transition. Those of you that wish to move along to
Fedora 13 rawhide will need to modify your fedora rawhide.repo file and
keep it enabled, while disabling fedora and fedora-updates repos.
Thanks again to all of you who have helped make Fedora 12 the great
release it is about to be!"
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-November/msg00008.html
--- FEDORA EVENTS ---
Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the
fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the
following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_2
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_3
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_4
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events
-- 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
This week is an amalgamation of posts from the past two weeks. Two for
the price of one!
1.
http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
Andrew Vermilya Jamison took a look[1] at the new Fedora Community[2]
(Beta) site. "This is a great hub for communication in the distribution
and promises to add new features that will make it more useful to other
non Package contributing groups in Fedora...I can very well see this
becoming a portal for the average Fedora user to: Check forum replies to
topic you create, Reporting bugs using the Bugzilla API (would make it
far easier to report a bug), Search the Smolt DB for hardware that works
on Fedora, Tracking Wiki discussions and pages you might be involved
with. All that and so much more, this site has great potential."
Ujjwol Lamichhane examined[3] the Sugar desktop. "Most of you, Linux
users have always been limited to the two big desktop names in Linux.
GNOME and KDE today represent the Linux desktop. But there exist
other desktop environment along with these two; XFCE, LDE etc. All
these desktop environment was made with a normal desktop or laptop
in mind but one desktop was made with small screen and children in
mind. Yes, the Sugar; the XO’s desktop from Sugar Labs...Though named
as child's desktop environment, I found Sugar as easy as GNOME, as
plasmic as KDE and as lightweight as XFCE."
Richard Hughes' GNOME Color Manager progressed[4] further with a
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