news 28 Posted November 30, 2009 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 More Fedora 12 Reviews + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 Fedora Project Election Town Halls + 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 Quality Assurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Increasing the grub timeout + 1.3.4 Fedora 12 QA retrospective o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora at NYSCATE + 1.4.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Translation Schedule Tasks + 1.5.2 Accessibility Guide + 1.5.3 New Members o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Interaction Design Hackfest + 1.6.2 Game Screenshots Ready. Better Navigation Next o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 204 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 204[1] for the week ending November 29, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We start this week's issue off with a couple additional Fedora 12 reviews to highlight, and also lots of Fedora Project Election information to inform and engage the user community! In news from the Fedora Planet this week, comparing the Nokia Maemo and Google Android platforms, thoughts on sustainable open source engineering, and a review of the 0.4 Eclipse Linux Tools. In the Quality Assurance beat, much detail on this past week's QA team activities, and an interesting Fedora 12 QA retrospective. Ambassadors news this week gives us an event report from the recent New York State Association for Technology and Computers in Education meeting. In Translation happenings, 0-day Fedora 12 translation polishing, and new members to the Fedora Localization Project for Italian, Sinhala and German. The Art/Design beat shows off discussion on an interactive design hackfest and wrapup of screenshots for a Fedora Game Spin. This issue wraps up with security patches released last week for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. Please enjoy FWN 204! 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/Issue204 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: Pascal Calarco 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- More Fedora 12 Reviews --- Last week, we highlighted several Fedora 12 reviews from around the globe. Here are a few more than came in over the past week: * Distrowatch, "First look at Fedora 12" [1] * Linux Planet "Fedora 12 pushes bleeding edge of Linux networking" [2] 1. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091123#feature 2. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6910/1/ --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- Fedora Project Election Town Halls ---- There are a number of high-profile and important elections for the Fedora Project leadership in process right now, and there's lots on the wiki to inform the user community on the candidates[1]. See the linked page for a log of town hall discussions, and upcoming town halls[2] through December 3rd! Who can vote? Check out the Fedora Elections Guide![3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls 3. http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/ --- 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 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Gerard Braad installed[1] the Maemo 5 SDK on Fedora 12. However, there were a few minor quirks with the installation process to be aware of. Steven Moix compared[2] the Maemo platform (Nokia N900) with Android (Hero). Richard W.M. Jones decided to take a look[3] into the Fedora and Ubuntu Live CDs to see if it was possible "to quickly create a Fedora or Ubuntu “all-defaults†virtual machine." Part 2 continues[4] with some optimization that drastically reduce the time taken to install (one 16 minutes operation in particular ends up taking 2 1/2 minutes after optimization). Andrew Overholt announced[5] release 0.4.0 of the Eclipse Linux Tools, complete with SystemTap call graphs, GProf integration and better autotools support. John Palmier explained[6] "why do we care about push messaging"? (in the form of a comic strip). This is all in preparation for a presentation on AMQP and qpid for the upcoming FUDCon. Karsten Wade discussed[7] "building a business around sustainable open source engineering". Karsten wanted to "lay out a definition for sustainable open source engineering, provide some examples you may not have thought of, and find out who else is doing a good job at it (or trying to, at the very least!)" Mike McGrath says[8]: "I'm happy to announce today we finally have context based sponsorship listings. What does this mean? Well, when you go to http://fedoraproject.org/ you end up hitting one of several reverse proxy servers. These hosts are located all over the world by different hosting providers." Pavol Rusnak took a look[9] at community engagement in the OpenSUSE and Fedora communities. Many pie graphs ensued. Ray Strode talked[10] about the point in the bootup process where it transitions from Plymouth to X. "f you haven’t seen it, when boot up finishes, plymouth settles down the boot splash to a transitionable animation frame, then the mouse pointer shows up, and GDM’s background cross fades in while the login window maps and expands to show frequently logged in users. In the best case, this transition all happens without any flicker, resolution changes, black intermediate screens, or console text showing up." 1. http://blog.gbraad.nl/2009/11/maemo-5-sdk-on-fedora-12.html 2. http://www.alphatek.info/2009/11/22/maemo-or-android-n900-versus-hero/ 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/prebuilt-distributions-part-1/ 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/prebuilt-distributions-part-2/ 5. http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=139 6. http://www.j5live.com/2009/11/23/fudcon-the-amqp-story/ 7. http://iquaid.org/2009/11/23/building-a-business-around-sustainable-open-source-engineering/ 8. http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/31686.html 9. http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/11/fedora-and-opensuse-community-engagement/ 10. http://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2009/11/28/plymouth-%E2%9F%B6-x-transition/ -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, and no Test Day is currently planned for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-11-23. The full log is available[2]. James Laska noted that a common bugs page entry had been added[3] to cover the known issue with preupgrade and free space in the /boot partition, and Rui He had been working to update the preupgrade test cases to catch similar problems in future[4]. James Laska admitted that he had not yet sent out the request for feedback for the Fedora 12 QA retrospective, but promised to do it soon. John Poelstra asked whether the group would be interested in a project-wide retrospective at the upcoming FUDCon; James offered to discuss the idea with John after the meeting. The group discussed the question of privilege escalation testing, following the PackageKit installation permission controversy[5]. James Laska wanted to discuss the plan Tom 'spot' Callaway had proposed via a blog post[6] and create a test plan based around it. Adam Williamson felt it was too early to begin planning testing, since Tom's blog post was only a proposal, and there was no official policy or guideline for privilege escalation issues on which a test plan could be based. Adam was also worried about defining the scope of testing, as checking every package in the distribution would be impractical given the size of the QA team. The group agreed that for any useful testing to be done, two things would be needed: a project-wide policy or set of policies and guidelines, and a tool for generating a list of packages which are capable of privilege escalation. Adam agreed to start a discussion of Share this post Link to post
