news 28 Posted March 8, 2010 Fedora Weekly News Issue 216 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10 # 1.1.2.2 Build F13 collection packages for all language translators # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting * 1.1.2.3.1 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting RESCHEDULED: 2010-02-25 at 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST) * 1.1.2.3.2 Fedora 13 Alpha slip by one week * 1.1.2.3.3 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 ( -at -) 01:00 UTC (2010-03-03 ( -at -) 20:00 EST) * 1.1.2.3.4 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 ( -at -) 01:00 UTC Recap + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora release party in Dhaka + 1.4.2 Campus Ambassadors up and running + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Weekly meetings + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Alpha + 1.5.4 Fedora 12 update problems + 1.5.5 yum-langpack Test Day recap + 1.5.6 Updates-testing karma reporting script - fedora-easy-karma o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks for Translations + 1.6.2 Transifex v 0.8 Release and translate.fp.org Upgrade + 1.6.3 Translated String Missing from gnome-packagekit + 1.6.4 New Members in FLP o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 216 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 216[1] for the week ending March 1, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Announcements, we have several development items, including changes for packaging guidelines, a call for F13 translation packages rebuilds, and news on Fedora 13 Alpha RC4 decisions from last week. In news from the Fedora Planet, thoughts on UX collaboration between conferences, how to set up client and server certificates for use with Apache Qpid, and perspectives on why the IIPA's position toward Open Source is problematic and wrong. In Marketing news, an update on last week's Fedora Insight sprint, work on a Communication Matrix for the Marketing team, and detail on the past weekly meeting activities, including decisioning the F13 slogan -- "Rock It!" In Ambassador news, an event report from Dhaka, and updates on the Campus Ambassador program. In Quality Assurance news, next week's Test Day focus on webcams, lots of tasty detail from QA Team weekly meetings, and a new tool, fedora-easy-karma, which greatly asssists in the process of filing feedback on packages in updates-testing via Bodhi. Translation reviews the upcoming Fedora 13 tasks in that area, updates on the Transifex 0.80 upgrade, and new members in the Fedora Localization Project for the Russian, Traditional Chinese and Greek teams. This week's issue closes with security advisory updates from the past week for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. Read on! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list ( -at -) redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue216 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. 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://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events -- Fedora Announcement News -- There were no announcements on the announce ( -at -) lists.fedoraproject.org last week aside from FWN 215 availability. --- Fedora Development News --- ---- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10 ---- Tom "spot" Callaway announced[1] the changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10. He said, "It has been almost a year since we announced changes to the Packaging Guidelines, so this will be a long list. In the future, we'll try to be more timely in writing up changes and announcing them to the Fedora Community. Here are the list of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: When selecting which source to download from upstream and use in a Fedora package, the smallest available (and Fedora compatible) source should be used:[2] The Fortran Packaging Guidelines have been updated: [3] The Ant Sample Spec in the Java Packaging Guidelines has been corrected:[4] The R Packaging Guidelines have been updated:[5] The Scrollkeeper scriptlets were removed from the Packaging Guidelines:[6] The Python Packaging Guidelines were significantly rewritten including changes to address: * Python 3 * PyGTK2 and Numpy [7] Dos2unix is no longer forbidden when removing DOS line breaks in a file:[8] The Packaging Guidelines now contain a lengthy explanation of why Bundled Libraries are not permitted in Fedora: [9] The Packaging Guideline section on dealing with pre-built libraries has been improved:[10] Fedora packages no longer need to explicitly define a BuildRoot, as RPM now always defines one:[11] The Fedora Packaging Guidelines now contain more information on how to deal with Conflicting Files in scenarios involving "common names": [12] There are now Packaging Guidelines for Wordpress Plugins:[13] There are now Packaging Guidelines for Globus Toolkit components: [14] Since RPM now detects pkgconfig dependencies in all Fedora releases, it is no longer necessary for Fedora packages with .pc files to explicitly Require: pkgconfig :[15] Fedora packages should contain man pages for all included binaries and scripts, and if not present, Fedora packagers should work with upstream to add them: [16] There are now Packaging Guidelines for MPI packages: [17] There are now Packaging Guidelines for proper usage of Environment Modules: [18] There are now Packaging Guidelines for proper usage of Alternatives: [19] The Packaging Guidelines now have a section covering how to properly handle filtering of Automatic Provides and Requires:[20] The GConf scriptlets have been rewritten to use macros (and be much simpler): [21] The Guidelines concerning RPath have been clarified:[22] The Guidelines concerning File and Directory ownership have been clarified:[23] The Emacs Packaging Guidelines have been changed:[24] The PHP Packaging Guidelines have been changed:[25] The Fedora Packaging Guidelines now contain a section on dealing with Buildtime Macros in Source RPMS: [26] A clarification note has been added to the SourceURL section, reminding Fedora packagers to use "downloads.sourceforge.net": [27] These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC) and ratified by FESCo. Many thanks to Pierre-Yves Chibon, Remi Collet, Mattias Ellert, Adam Jackson, Jussi Lehtola, David Malcolm, Till Maas, Bill Nottingham, Orcan Ogetbil, Rahul Sundaram, Alexey Torkhov, Jonathan Underwood, Ivana Varekova, Ian Weller, Chris Weyl and all of the members of the FPC and FESCo, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:[28] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000584.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL#Referencing_Source 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Fortran 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:R 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Scrollkeeper 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Rpmlint_Errors 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRoot_tag 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts#Conflicting_Files 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:WordPress_plugin_packaging_guidelines 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Globus 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines#Pkgconfig_Files 16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Man_pages 17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MPI 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:EnvironmentModules 19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering 21. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GConf 22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Beware_of_Rpath 23. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Ownership 24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs 25. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP 26. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Source_RPM_Buildtime_Macros 27. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Sourceforge.net 28. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure ---- Build F13 collection packages for all language translators ---- Noriko Mizumoto announced[1] to the Fedora package maintainers, "This is kind reminder asking you to rebuild your package with latest translation. Localization team has been translating for updated and/or newly added strings since the String is frozen (2010-02-09). To allow translators to review and correct their latest translation in UI, this is essential. This is different from 'Rebuild all translated packages for Beta', this is added entry since Fedora 12[2]. "Build F-13 collection packages for all language translators" is expected between 2010-03-03 to 2010-03-05. Please make sure your build is completed by 2010-03-05, so that a live image to be composed on 2010-03-05. The packages to be built are: * ABRT » master * anaconda » master * audit-viewer » tip * authconfig » tip * chkconfig » master * comps » HEAD * desktop-backgrounds » HEAD * desktop-effects » master * firstboot » master * im-chooser » trunk * initscripts » master * iok » trunk * kexec-tools » HEAD * libuser » tip * liveusb-creator » master * mlocate » tip * multimedia-menus » master * newt » master * passwd » tip * policycoreutils » HEAD * pykickstart » master * python-meh » master * readahead » master * redhat-menus » HEAD * setroubleshoot » tip-framework * setroubleshoot » tip-plugins * setuptool » master * smolt » master * smolt » master-smoon * sos » trunk * switchdesk » HEAD * system-config-audit » tip * system-config-bind » tip * system-config-boot » master * system-config-date » master-docs * system-config-date » master * system-config-date » master-timezones * system-config-display » master * system-config-firewall » master * system-config-httpd » tip * system-config-kdump » new * system-config-keyboard » trunk * system-config-kickstart » master * system-config-language » trunk * system-config-lvm » master * system-config-netboot » trunk * system-config-network » master * system-config-nfs » master * system-config-nfs » master-docs * system-config-printer » master * system-config-rootpassword » trunk * system-config-samba » master * system-config-samba » master-docs * system-config-services » master * system-config-services » master-docs * system-config-users » master * system-config-users » master-docs * system-switch-java » tip * system-switch-mail » HEAD * usermode » tip" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000583.html 2. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13/f-13-devel-tasks.html ---- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting ---- ----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting RESCHEDULED: 2010-02-25 at 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST)----- Adam Williamson announced as an important note[1], "...we are rescheduling the Go/No-Go meeting for Fedora 13 Alpha. Previously scheduled for 2010-02-25 01:00 UTC, it is now scheduled for 2010-02-25 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST, 11:00 PST). This delay is to give sufficient time for the QA team to test the expected RC3 build. The original announcement, with the new time, is reproduced below for reference. Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Thursday, February 25, 2010 ( -at -) 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST). "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this important meeting see: [2]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000580.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings ----- Fedora 13 Alpha slip by one week ----- Jesse Keating announced[1] on the basis of the announcement[2], "Today at the go / no-go meeting[3] we decided to slip the Alpha by one week. This slip is needed to verify blocker bug fixes and validate new builds of software necessary to fix those bugs. We are confident that the fixes we have are valid, however we do not have enough time to prove them valid. We will spend the next few days doing that validation. In the mean time builds will continue to be pushed to updates-testing for 13, and even to 13 stable, however critical path packages might not be pushed unless they are fixing a release blocking issue. Once we've validated all the fixes we will do more frequent pushes to 13 stable. At this time we are not adjusting later milestone dates, as with no frozen rawhide we are not taking away any developer time." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000581.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000580.html 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-25/fedora-meeting.2010-02-25-18.59.log.html ----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 ( -at -) 01:00 UTC (2010-03-03 ( -at -) 20:00 EST) ----- Adam Williamson announced[1], "Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. This is Thursday, March 4, 2010 ( -at -) 01:00 UTC, which makes it WEDNESDAY EVENING in North America: 20:00 EST, 17:00 PST. "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this important meeting see:[2]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000582.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings ----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 ( -at -) 01:00 UTC Recap ----- James Laska announced[1] the meeting summary, "Representatives from Fedora QA, Rel-Eng and Development met on IRC to review determine whether the Fedora 13 Alpha release criteria[2] have been met. The team agreed that the Alpha criteria have been met, and to proceed with releasing F-13-Alpha-RC4. For additional details, please refer to the attached minutes. * fedora-meeting: F-13-Alpha engineering readiness meeting Meeting started by jlaska at 01:00:03 UTC. The full logs are available at [3]. Meeting summary * Waiting for critical mass . (jlaska, 01:00:25) * adamw representing QA (jlaska, 01:03:02) * Oxf13 representing Rel-Eng (jlaska, 01:03:07) * Oxf13 wearing the notting mask, representing Devel (jlaska,01:03:21) Why are we here? (jlaska, 01:03:44) * The purpose is to decide whether the alpha has met the release criteria (jlaska, 01:03:49) * LINK:[4](jlaska, 01:03:54) Go or No Go? (jlaska, 01:04:57) * all desktop and install validation tests for alpha point have been run (jlaska, 01:08:36) * only bug blocking alpha is [5] - we have decided it's okay as it has a usable workaround, so we should take it off the list (jlaska, 01:08:52) * ACTION: Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from F13Alpha(jlaska, 01:13:10) * LINK: [6](jlaska, 01:15:09) * IDEA: should KDE Live image be respun to address kpackagekit issue?(jlaska, 01:16:44) * source DVD is 5.0G (Oxf13, 01:20:49) * IDEA: need to determine how to handle source ISO's for F-13-Final(jlaska, 01:24:01) * ACTION: several remaining CommonBugs? needing documentation(jlaska, 01:25:15) * AGREED: QA + Rel-Eng + Devel* agreed to proceed with releasing F-13-Alpha-RC4 as the Alpha (jlaska, 01:26:09) What's next? (jlaska, 01:26:38) * ACTION: adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues(jlaska, 01:28:44) * LINK: [7] (Oxf13, 01:32:06) * ACTION: jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to devel-announce ( -at -) test-announce ( -at -) and logistics ( -at -) (jlaska, 01:33:34) * expect to be fully staged for mirrors by tomorrow (Oxf13, 01:34:16) Open Discussion (jlaska, 01:34:45) Meeting ended at 01:36:45 UTC. Action Items * Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from F13Alpha * several remaining CommonBugs? needing documentation * adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues * jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to devel-announce ( -at -) test-announce ( -at -) and logistics ( -at -) Action Items, by person * adamw * adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues * jlaska * adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues * jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to devel-announce ( -at -) test-announce ( -at -) and logistics ( -at -) * **UNASSIGNED** * Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from F13Alpha * several remaining CommonBugs? needing documentation People Present (lines said) * jlaska (67) * Oxf13 (41) * adamw (32) * juhp (10) * poelcat (6) * rhe (4) * zodbot (4) * skvidal (2) 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000585.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_Release_Criteria 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-04/f-13-alpha-eng-readiness.2010-03-04-01.00.log.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_Release_Criteria 5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567346 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#yum-langpacks 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_Announcement --- 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 (March 2010 to May 2010) ---- * 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#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- MáirÃn Duffy asked[1] for a pony but really it was about "how us designers could continue to collaborate after the (London UX) hackfest was over. This has been a recurring issue, as us designers meet every year or so, at GUADEC, at UX hackfests, or at GNOME Boston Summits (or even other FLOSS events like LinuxTag) and we get some great collaborate work done during the events – but it peters off after we get settled in back home after the events." One other post from the hackfest was about a presentation[2] on an icon usability study. Matthias Clasen created[3] a new dialog for setting a user's password, including visual password strength indicator widget. Rajith Attapattu wrote[4] about how to set up client and server certificates for use with Apache Qpid. Richard W.M. Jones benchmarked[5] ext2, ext3 and ext4 with and without LVM. Richard also cataloged[6] all 267 commands that Guestfish now supports. And lastly, Richard introduced[7] "Tech Talk Platinum Supreme Edition!" a new super-simple presentation software application. Michael Tiemann explained[8] why the IIPA's position toward Open Source is problematic and wrong. "The entire position taken by IIPA is unbalanced. It relies on outdated definitions, special interests and a fear of innovation and new business model opportunities. It blends them together to abuse an outdated mechanism of the US government with a condemnation that applies to the US itself." Jeroen van Meeuwen experimented[9] with rebuilding all of Enterprise Linus, including updates and Extras "in order to learn from it and take away a couple of notes on the subject". Find out what Jeroen learned. For anyone interested in making UserDirs (i.e. ~username) work properly in Apache with SELinux enabled, Diego Búrigo Zacarão has [10] your solution. 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-one-where-the-designers-ask-for-a-pony/ 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/charlines-icon-usability-study/ 3. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/03/02/details/ 4. http://rajith.2rlabs.com/2010/03/01/apache-qpid-securing-connections-with-ssl/ 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/is-ext234-faster-on-lvm/ 6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/guestfish-supports-267-commands/ 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/presentation-software-sucks-introducing/ 8. http://opensource.org/node/511 9. http://www.kanarip.com/node/1430 10. http://diegobz.net/2010/03/07/enabling-apache-userdir-public_html-with-selinux-enabled-on-fedora/ -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-02-27 to 2010-03-05. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross One the most important things that happened on Marketing this week was the Fedora Insight Sprint that took place on February, 28th. As reported[1] by Pascal Calarco there where advances in several areas and some interactive testing. This test included uploading some of beats from Fedora Weekly News to Fedora Insight. Congratulations for all those contributed in this sprint. Nelson Marques started a document called Comunication Matrix[2] which surely will help us at Marketing in many ways. On March, 2nd, Marketing held its weekly meeting. You can see the log[3] but the highlight was the slogan for Fedora 13. Later on the slogan was released by Nelson Marques[4] so let's “Rock it!†There was brought up the issue about promoting spins, and Paul Frields made clear that errors were made[5], but we are moving forward and future talking points will include spins[6]. All in all a busy week. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011875.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communication_matrix 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-03-02/fedora-meeting-1.2010-03-02-20.00.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011908.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011907.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011901.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora release party in Dhaka --- Rejaul Islam reports on an event Asian University, Dhaka (Uttara Campus), which became a release party for Fedora 12 last month. Details can be found here: http://maktrix.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/asian-university-dhaka-fedora-12-release-party/ --- Campus Ambassadors up and running --- The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you. For more information, visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- 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 --- Last week's planned Test Day on the use of SSSD by default[1] unfortunately had to be postponed. The new date will be announced in FWN when it is decided. Next week's Test Day[2] will be on webcams. Well, that's simple! We like webcams. We want them to work. If your webcam works, we would like to know this so we can celebrate and bask in the warm, contented glow. If your webcam does not work, this makes us very sad and we would like to make it work. So, if you have a webcam, please come along, run a few simple tests, and if it doesn't work, we'll do our best to change that! Testing will be very easy and you'll be able to use a live CD or an installed Fedora system to test. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-03-11 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. 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[3]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSDByDefault 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-11_webcams 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-03-01. The full logs are available[2]. Adam Miller reported back on his proposal for managing membership of the QA group in FAS. He had created a draft proposal[3] Share this post Link to post
