news 28 Posted April 20, 2009 Fedora Weekly News Issue 172 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 172 for the week ending April 19th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue172 This week Announcements rubs its hands with glee over the "Fedora 11" freeze. Similarly Artwork enthuses about "Fedora 11 Landing" with great Leonidas themes including a surprise for wide-screen setups. Developments gushes about "Presto and DeltaRPM Status" and SecurityWeek asks the interesting question "Who in the Linux World Would be Responsible for a Worm?". SecurityAdvisories faithfully lists updates that might just help avoid that worm. With a red face we draw your attention with an Erratum to last week's missing QualityAssurance beat. This week's QualityAssurance beat "Test Days" advertizes the upcoming minimal installation testing and reports in "Weekly meetings" that PulseAudio issues with snd-intel-hda and snd-intel8x0 are resolved. Translation reports on the availability of a bulky "Fedora 11 Installation Guide Ready for Translation". The FedoraWeeklyWebcomic joins us again and Ambassadors shares a neat list of LinuxFestNorthWest talks by Fedora folk. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list ( -at -) redhat.com 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala Contents 1.1 Erratum: Missing QualityAssurance Beat in FWN#171 1.2 Announcements 1.2.1 Fedora 11 1.2.2 FUDCon Berlin 2009 1.2.3 Upcoming Events 1.3 QualityAssurance 1.3.1 Test Days 1.3.2 Weekly meetings 1.4 Developments 1.4.1 Frozen for Fedora 11. Some Packages Still Not Built dist-f11 1.4.2 Xorg Hacking Solves DontZap 1.4.3 Minesweeper Certified Solitaire Professionals Satisfied with DVD 1.4.4 Presto and DeltaRPM Status 1.4.5 Browser Plugins May Strip SELinux Protections 1.4.6 Getting Rid of /usr for Fedora 12 ? 1.5 Translation 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Installation Guide Ready for Translation 1.5.2 New Members in FLP 1.6 Artwork 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Landing 1.7 Fedora Weekly Webcomic 1.8 Security Week 1.8.1 Malicious Activity Grows in 2008 1.8.2 Who in the Linux World Would be Responsible for a Worm ? 1.9 Security Advisories 1.9.1 Fedora 10 Security Advisories 1.9.2 Fedora 9 Security Advisories 1.10 Ambassadors 1.10.1 LinuxFest Northwest Starts Saturday 1.10.2 Got Ambassador News? == Erratum: Missing QualityAssurance Beat in FWN#171 == Last week (FWN#171) your painstaking QualityAssurance correspondent, Adam Williamson, wrote a very readable account of the activity around the UEFI BIOS replacement, Graphics-card Metrics and a lot more. Somehow we omitted to include this in the plaintext issue. With apologies to Adam and to our readers we suggest you take a look at our archived web version[1]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue171#QualityAssurance == 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/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events Contributing Writer: Max Spevack === Fedora 11 === We're getting very close to the Fedora 11 release, and excitement is building. Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] that we are now frozen for Fedora 11. "We've reached the final freeze, as well as mass branched. From this point on, builds from F-11/ will go to dist-f11-updates-candidate and builds from devel/ will go to dist-f12. dist-f11 itself is locked." John Poelstra[3] gave a final reminder[4] to feature owners whose features are not at 100%. "Feature freeze has past and the following feature pages still need updates. Some have not been updated for several months. All need to be at 100% completion and their content set to reflect that." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-April/msg00006.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-April/msg00007.html === FUDCon Berlin 2009 === Max Spevack[1] reminded[2] the community about FUDCon Berlin 2009[3], including registration[4], lodging[5], and the speaking schedule[6]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-April/msg00006.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_attendees 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_lodging 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_Berlin_and_LinuxTag_2009_talks === Upcoming Events === April 17-19: Summer Geek Camp 2[1] in Antipolo City, Phillipines. April 18: BarCamp Rochester[2] in Rochester, New York, USA. April 19-22: Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit[3] in Malta. April 24-25: FLISOL, all over the LATAM region. April 25: Trenton Computer Festival[4] in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. April 25-26: Linux Fest Northwest[5] in Bellingham, Wasthington, USA. April 27: FOSS Lightning Talks[6] in Stockholm, Sweden. May 2: Introduction to FOSS, Fedora workshop in Pradesh, India. May 4-8: VI Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre[7] in Mérida, Venezuela. 1. http://fedora.bluepoint.com.ph/index.php?entry=20090204000843 2. http://barcamprochester.org/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_EMEA_Partner_Summit_2009 4. http://tcf-nj.org/ 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFest_Northwest_%28LFNW%29_2009 6. http://natverk.dfs.se/node/13922 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FMCL/VI-FMCL == 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 === This week saw two Test Days. The first[1] was a follow-up on the Fedora 11 rewrite of Anaconda's storage device code[2]. The second[3] was on the Presto plugin for yum, which enables the use of deltarpms for updates. The Anaconda test day verified that many issues from the earlier test day had been resolved and turned up several new bugs, many of which have been fixed already. The Presto test day was surprisingly uneventful: there was good participation but few bugs were discovered, the system worked well and reliably for almost every test. Next week's Test Day[4] will be on the minimal platform feature[5], support for very small minimal installations. This is another test day which will require installation, so if you are interested in taking part, please make sure to have a spare system or partition on which you can install a Rawhide system. Of course, this week it only needs to be small! 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:AnacondaStorageRewrite_2009-04-14 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AnacondaStorageRewrite 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Presto_2009-04-16 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-04-21 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MinimalPlatform === Weekly meetings === The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-04-15. The full log is available[2]. The group briefly discussed James Laska's plan to improve the customization possibilities for Test Day live CDs. James promised to send a mail to the list regarding his ideas here. Adam Williamson reported that he had successfully had a post on the Rawhide nss / x86-64 issue added to the rawhidewatch blog[3], run by Warren Togami. Adam Williamson reported on his progress in evaluating whether important bugs reported in the X driver Test Days are fully repesented on the Fedora 11 release blocker bugs list. The nouveau maintainer, Ben Skeggs, has already reviewed all nouveau bugs. Review of intel and radeon bugs in in process together with the regular triagers for these components, Matej Cepl and Francois Cami. Will Woods provided an update on his progress in checking on PulseAudio's readiness for a Fedora 11 release. He noted that some significant problems remained in two ALSA drivers - snd-intel-hda and snd-intel8x0 - which cause problems in PulseAudio. These drivers are used by a very large amount of current sound hardware. However, patches to fix several problematic cases have been added to the Rawhide kernel recently, and the remaining problems can be worked around if fixes are not integrated prior to release time, so it should be possible to release Fedora 11 with a fairly reliable PulseAudio. The group discussed whether it would make sense to schedule a Test Day for Intel audio chipsets, but concluded it was too close to release time and the Test Day schedule was already too busy to make it practical. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[4] was held on 2009-04-14. The full log is available[5]. The meeting opened with a call for the Bugzappers group to be proactive in adding serious bugs to the Fedora 11 Blocker and Target bug lists. Several group members expressed the concern that they would not be able accurately to identify which bugs should be added to the list, so Adam Williamson and James Laska promised to discuss the issue at the next QA meeting and see if there was a way to provide firmer policies and guidance in future. The group agreed to delegate the creation and organization of a Wiki area covering SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) to John Poelstra. The discussion about how long to wait before closing NEEDINFO bugs was resolved by a proposal from John Poelstra: whether to close after 30 or 60 days will be left to the discretion of individual triagers, while if there is in future any co-ordinated team working to resolve stale NEEDINFO issues not handled by the initial triager, they will use the 60 day method. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-04-22 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-04-21 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://www.happyassassin.net/extras/fedora-qa-20090415.log 3. http://rawhidewatch.wordpress.com/ 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Apr-14 == Developments == In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
