Changes in Fedora Release Engineering

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Today I am writing to announce some changes in Fedora Release
Engineering. Effective Friday the 23rd of March 2018 Mohan Boddu will
be taking over as the primary person responsible for Release
Engineering in Fedora.  Mohan has effectively been the primary person
since Fedora 26 as he has been doing most of the work.  I will be
taking on a new role within Red Hat, and will no longer be in the
internal Release Engineering team. 

Going forward Mohan will be supported by Suzanne Yeghiayan as project
manager for release engineering. All requests for work should go though
pagure[1] or taiga[2] to be groomed, prioritised and scoped.


I have posted a blog post[3] with some of my thoughts in reflection
looking back at the last 8 or so years.

Thank you all for you support over the years and your continued support
of Mohan and the rest of the Release Engineers in Fedora.


Dennis

[1] https://pagure.io/releng
[2] https://taiga.fedorainfracloud.org/project/acarter-fedora-docker-at
omic-tooling/
[3] https://ausil.us/wordpress/?p=143

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Mass Rebuild for Fedora 28

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

We have now completed the automated part of the Fedora 28 mass rebuild,
The details for the scheduled mass rebuild for Fedora 28 can be found
here[1]. The failure page for the rebuilds can be found here[3] and the
full list of packages that are needing rebuilding can be found here[4].
 The needs rebuild list includes packages that failed to get submitted
to koji for various reasons, things like the spec bumping failing due
to incomplete or incorrect retirement 

Please quickly clean up all build failures as the schedule[5] has us
branching next Tuesday, on the 20th of February and enabling Bodhi on 
the 6th of March, So expect to see a 28 branched compose in about a
week from now.

Many Thanks

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
[2] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mass-rebuild/f28-failures.html
[3] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mass-rebuild/f28-need-rebuild.ht
ml
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule

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Mass rebuilds update

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

We have now completed two mass rebuilds, The first one was the
scheduled mass rebuild for Fedora 27 details are here[1] the second one
was all archful packages due to the binutils bug[2] on ppc64le. The
failures pages for the two rebuilds can be found here[3] and here[4]

Please quickly clean up all build failures as the schedule[5] has us
branching next Tuesday, August the 15th and enabling Bodhi  on August
the 29th, So expect to see a 27 branched compose in about a week from
now.

Many Thanks

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
[3] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mass-rebuild/f27-failures.html
[4] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mass-rebuild/f27-binutils-failur
es.html
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/27/Schedule

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Alternative Arch update

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

Just letting you all know that as part of the redefinition of
Alternative Architectures[1] we have just enabled the building of s390x
in primary koji. this is the last new architecture we are planning to
enable at this point. s390x will be added to rawhide composes early
next week. If you have any questions or experience any issues and wan
releng to provide assistance, please contact us by one of the
documented channels[2].

With the import being done now, it has been decided that s390x is too
late for Fedora 26, as such it will be built and shipped from
s390.koji.fedoraproject.org in the Fedora 26 cycle we brought in
aarch64, ppc64 and ppc64le to primary koji. This means that the arm and
ppc koji's will be used for updates until Fedora 25 goes End of Life
and will be shut down at that point. The s390 koji will live on until
Fedora 26 goes EOL.

Regards

Dennis


[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RedefiningSecondaryArc
hitectures
[2] https://docs.pagure.org/releng/



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Re: announcing arch excludes mailing list

[Dennis Gilmore]

El mar, 10-01-2017 a las 14:34 -0600, Dennis Gilmore escribió:
> Hi All,
> 
> A new mailing list has been created https://lists.fedoraproject.org/a
> dm
> in/lists/arch-excludes.lists.fedoraproject.org/ I would invite anyone
> who is interested in any architecture in fedora to subscribe to the
> list. every commit to git that adds or removes
> ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch will trigger a notification email.
> additionally there will be a summary email sent every day of all
> packages with ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch highlighting changes.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dennis

a better url is https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arch-excl
u...@lists.fedoraproject.org/

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announcing arch excludes mailing list

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

A new mailing list has been created https://lists.fedoraproject.org/adm
in/lists/arch-excludes.lists.fedoraproject.org/ I would invite anyone
who is interested in any architecture in fedora to subscribe to the
list. every commit to git that adds or removes
ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch will trigger a notification email.
additionally there will be a summary email sent every day of all
packages with ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch highlighting changes.

Thanks

Dennis

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Packagers - Flag day 2016 Important changes

[Dennis Gilmore]

Greetings. 

As previously announced, releng has made a number of changes as part of
it's 2016 "flag day". 

All package maintainers will want to make sure they have updated to
the 
following package versions (some may be in testing as of this email):

 python-cccolutils-1.4-1
 fedpkg-1.26-2
 fedora-packager-0.6.0.0-1
 pyrpkg-1.47-3
 koji-1.11.0-1

Please also see the following links for up to date information: 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FlagDay2016

The following changes were made:

* koji and the source lookaside were changed to use kerberos
authentication
instead of ssl certificates. All maintainers will need to:

kinit your-fas-accountn...@fedoraaproject.org

to get a valid kerberos TGT and be able to authenticate to koji and 
the lookaside upload cgi. 

See the general kerberos information at: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_kerberos_authentication
for more details.

Additionally, via GSSAPI many browsers allow you to seamlessly login 
to any of our ipsilon using applications simply by clicking on the
login 
button ( bodhi, fedorahosted trac, elections, fedocal, mailman3, etc)

* koji now uses a well known cert for https. 

* pkgs.fedoraproject.org now redirects to https://src.fedoraproject.org
 and 
that uses a well known cert. Please correct any links you use to use
https://src.fedoraproject.org for packages spec and patch files. 

* rawhide builds now land in the f26-pending tag, where they are signed
and then 
added to the f26 tag for compose in the next rawhide compose. This
allows 
rawhide packages to be fully signed as well as a point where automated
QA
can take place in the future. 

* packages "sources" files now use sha512 by default instead of md5. 
You will need the fedpkg update in order to create and use these new
checksums.

Questions or concerns as always welcome at #fedora-admin on
irc.freenode.net
or tickets at https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure. 
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upcoming build and release developer flag day December 12 2016

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

We are wanting to write to you all about an important date coming up. On the 
12th of December 2016 we will be making some important changes that will 
require changes on every developers machine. In this case developers means 
every one that interacts with koji using authentication

lookaside cache checksum hash. currently packages are stored in lookaside 
cache using md5sum we will be switching to sha256sum. The support for this has 
been in fedpkg for awhile, we have not switched the default as once we do any 
source uploaded with sha256sum will only be able to be verified by a client 
that supports sha256sum. 

koji authentication will be switching to Kerberos. Koji supports multiple 
authentication mechanisms. Fedora infrastructure has set up a freeipa instance 
internally that has credential syncing to fas. We are working on ensuring that 
gssapi caching is supported so that you can have multiple TGT's and the 
ability to work in multiple reams at once. you can get started today by doing 
kinit @FEDORAPROJECT.ORG if you move your ~/.fedora.cert file 
out of the way authentication will still work.

Using well known certs for koji.fedoraproject.org arm.koji.fedoraproject.org 
ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org s390.koji.fedoraproject.org pkgs.fedoraproject.org 
this is the last step needed to have fedoraproject.org switch to hsts and 
default to https:// when connecting to any fedora service. It will also remove 
a lot of questions that new people have when connecting to koji via https.

Disable ssl cert authentication in koji. With the switch to keberos and the 
change of ssl certificates on the koji and pkgs servers we will be disabling 
the ability to login to koji using a ssl certificate completely. This change 
will require new koji client configurations for everyone.

Gate rawhide builds. Gating will enable us to sign rawhide builds and switch 
the rawhide repo to having gpgcheck enabled.

In order to achieve everything we have to break end user configurations. All 
users will need to have new enough versions of fedora-packager, fedpkg, rpkg, 
koji. the exact versions needed are not yet known as some enhancements are 
still being worked on.  We will be aiming to have everything pushed stable 
right before the flag day. Some of the changes will not be compatible with the 
existing setup.  We anticipate keeping everyone informed as we move forward 
about any actions that will need to be taken on the developer side.  there is 
a wiki page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FlagDay2016 
that will be updated as more is known.

Not in scope at this point is using kerberos for ssh or other apps supported 
by infrastructure, though it is not ruled out going forward.


If you have any questions please respond here or in #fedora-releng on freenode
 
Thanks

Release Engineering and Infrastructure

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Re: ppc64 and ppc64le builds coming to rawhide

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Friday, October 28, 2016 2:54:19 PM CDT Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> over the weekend we will be importing and enabling ppc64 and ppc64le builds
> in koji.fedoraproject.org as part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
> Architectures/RedefiningSecondaryArchitectures  The import and enablement of
> ppc64 and ppc64le is for rawhide only,  we expect to add s390x sometime
> after f26 has branched
> 
> We will be making changes to the compose process early next week to enable
> ppc64 and ppc64le in the rawhide compose,  a reminder that i386 has been
> moved from /pub/fedora/ to /pub/fedora-secondary/
> 
> A further announcement will come when building of ppc64 and ppc64le is
> enabled
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dennis

The arches are imported and builds have been enabled. If you experience any 
issues or have questions please ask releng or the power team, in #fedora-
releng #fedora-ppc on freenode or by filing an issue in pagure or sending an 
email to the respective lists

Thanks

Dennis

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ppc64 and ppc64le builds coming to rawhide

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

over the weekend we will be importing and enabling ppc64 and ppc64le builds in 
koji.fedoraproject.org as part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Architectures/RedefiningSecondaryArchitectures  The import and enablement of 
ppc64 and ppc64le is for rawhide only,  we expect to add s390x sometime after 
f26 has branched

We will be making changes to the compose process early next week to enable 
ppc64 and ppc64le in the rawhide compose,  a reminder that i386 has been moved 
from /pub/fedora/ to /pub/fedora-secondary/

A further announcement will come when building of ppc64 and ppc64le is enabled


Thanks

Dennis

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Re: comiing to koji aarch64

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Saturday, September 10, 2016 9:19:27 AM CDT Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We are in the process of importing aarch64 to the primary koji instance as
> part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/
> RedefiningSecondaryArchitectures  The import and enablement of aarch64 is
> for rawhide only,  we expect to add power big and little endiian sometime
> before the mass rebuild.
> 
> We will be making changes to the compose process early next week to enable
> aarch64 in the rawhide compose,  at the same time i386 we be moving from
> /pub/ fedora/ to /pub/fedora-secondary/
> 
> A further announcement will come when building of aarch64 is enabled
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter and Dennis

aarch64 builds are enabled in rawhide now, there is one issue that needs 
eclipse to be rebootstrapped, A bug has been filed[1]  If you notice anyissues 
please file an issue in pagure[2]

Thanks

Dennis


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374938
[2] https://pagure.io/releng/issues
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comiing to koji aarch64

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

We are in the process of importing aarch64 to the primary koji instance as 
part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/
RedefiningSecondaryArchitectures  The import and enablement of aarch64 is for 
rawhide only,  we expect to add power big and little endiian sometime before 
the mass rebuild.

We will be making changes to the compose process early next week to enable 
aarch64 in the rawhide compose,  at the same time i386 we be moving from /pub/
fedora/ to /pub/fedora-secondary/

A further announcement will come when building of aarch64 is enabled


Thanks

Peter and Dennis
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Announcing the release of Fedora 25 Alpha!

[Dennis Gilmore]

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 
Fedora 25 Alpha, an important milestone on the road to our Fedora 25 release 
in November.


Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site:

* https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/
* https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/
* https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/

Or, check out one of our popular variants:

* https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease
* https://labs.fedoraproject.org/prerelease
* https://arm.fedoraproject.org/prerelease


== Alternative Architectures ==

We are also simultaneously releasing the F25 Alpha for Power64 and 64-bit ARM 
(AArch64). These are available from:

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/
25_Alpha/

== What is the Alpha release? ==

The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 25's editions in a form 
that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps 
us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release 
available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance 
to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 25 is expected in 
November. If you take the time to download and try out the Alpha, you can 
check and make sure the things that are important to YOU are working. Every 
bug you find and report doesn't just help you, it improves the experience of 
millions of Fedora users worldwide! Together, we can make Fedora rock-solid. 
We have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as 
much as we can, and your feedback improves not only Fedora, but Linux and Free 
software as a whole.

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/Schedule

== Issues and Details ==

Since this is an alpha release, we expect that you may encounter bugs or 
missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the 
Fedora QA team via the mailing list or in #fedora-qa on Freenode. As testing 
progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F25 Bugs page.

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs

For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug report".

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report

== Release Schedule ==

The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki:

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/Schedule

The current schedule calls for a beta release towards the middle of October, 
and the final release in November. Be aware that these dates are development 
targets. Some projects release on a set date regardless of feature 
completeness or bugs; others wait until certain thresholds for functionality 
or testing are met. Fedora uses a hybrid model, with milestones subject to 
adjustment. This allows us to make releases with new features and newly-
integrated and updated upstream software while also retaining high quality.


Enjoy

Fedora Release Engineering
(Dennis, Peter, Kevin, Mohan, Adam, Randy)

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Reminder: Fedora 22 end of life 2016-07-19

[Dennis Gilmore]

Greetings.

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 22.

Fedora 22 will reach end of life on 2016-07-19, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 24, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 22
collection.

Please see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 22 to a newer release.

Dennis
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Fedora 24 Final Freeze (2016-05-31)

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Tuesday May 31st 2016 is an important day on the Fedora 24 schedule[1], with 
significant cut-offs. 

Tuesday is the Final Freeze[2]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Final composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Final release is approved, at which point
the Final freeze is lifted and packages can move to the 'updates' repository, 
pending updates will be pushed before final release as zero day updates.

The final stable push before freeze will happen shortly after 2016-05-31 
00:00:00 Please get all updates you want included requested for stable in 
bodhi[5] before then.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[5] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/

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Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta!

[Dennis Gilmore]

The Fedora 24 Beta is here, on schedule for our planned June final
release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site:

-   Get Fedora 24 Beta Workstation: a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful
operating system for your laptop or desktop computer
https://getfedora.org/workstation/prerelease/ 

-   Get Fedora 24 Beta Server: make use of the very latest server-based
technologies available in the open source community
https://getfedora.org/server/prerelease/

-   Get Fedora 24 Beta Cloud: build scale-out computing and utilize the next
generation of container deployment technology
https://getfedora.org/cloud/prerelease/ 

-   Get Fedora 24 Beta Spins: alternative desktops for Fedora
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease

-   Get Fedora 24 Beta Labs: curated bundles of purpose-driven software and
content
https://labs.fedoraproject.org/prerelease

-   Get Fedora 24 Beta ARM: Fedora tailored for running on ARM-based devices
https://arm.fedoraproject.org/prerelease

What is the Beta release?
-

The Beta release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 24's
editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by
the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs from the Alpha
version. When most of these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release
available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong
resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora
24 is expected in June. We need your help to make Fedora 24 the best
yet. Please take some time to download and try out the Beta and make
sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a
bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. This is a great
opportunity for non-programmers to contribute back to fedora. Together,
we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of adding new features
to software and pushing fixes to the upstream developers at the same
time. This means your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but
Linux and free software on the whole.

-   
-   

Fedora-Wide Changes
---

Under the hood, glibc has moved to 2.23. This update includes better
performance, increased security, bugfixes, improvements to POSIX
compliance, and additional locales. The new library is backwards
compatible with the version of glibc that was shipped in Fedora 23.
We've also updated the system compiler to GCC 6 and rebuilt all of our
packages with it, providing greater code optimization and improved
program error catching.

Workstation
---

The Fedora 24 Workstation release will not default to Wayland, the next
generation graphic stack, but this is planned for future releases.
Wayland is available as an option, and the Workstation team would
greatly appreciate your help in testing it out. Our goal is to have one
full release where Wayland works almost seamlessly as a drop in
replacement for X11. At that point we plan to set it as the default
display server in Fedora. This new release also features GNOME 3.20.
There have been changes to the theming API in GTK+ 3. At this time the
API is under heavy development and will not remain stable. As a result,
applications that use custom CSS theming for example, may have rendering
issues. This could include default applications that come with Fedora 24
Beta Workstation. We request that users try out their favorite GTK+ 3
based applications and report bugs to the upstream developers so they
can be fixed in time for the final release.

Server
--

Fedora 24 beta server edition has also been more streamlined. Unnecessary
packages were removed and the installer has a smaller footprint. FreeIPA
4.3, an integrated security information management solution is now
included. The installation of replicas is streamlined by adding a
replica promotion method for new installs. A new topology plugin has
also been added to this version of FreeIPA that automatically manages
new replication segment creation. An effective replica topology
visualization tool is now available in the webUI.

Cloud
-

We are working hard to make Fedora the best platform for containerized
applications, from base Fedora container images to a full-featured
platform as a service to run and manage them. To meet this goal, we are
packaging OpenShift Origin so it is easy to deploy. OpenShift Origin is
a distribution of Kubernetes, a container cluster manager from Google.
It is optimized for enterprise application development and deployment.
Origin makes it easy for developers to get started building applications
in containers and for operators to manage them.

Spins and Labs
--

Fedora Spins is an alternative Fedora version that offers alternative
desktop environments to the standard Fedora Workstation. Fedo

Re: Fedora 24 Beta Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:52:30 AM CDT Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today is an important day on the Fedora 24 schedule[1], with two significant
> cut-offs.
> 
> Today is the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which fix
> accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as 'stable'
> and included in the Beta composes. Other builds will remain in
> updates-testing until the Beta release is approved, at which point the Beta
> freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual until the Final
> freeze.
> 
> Finally, Today is the '100% code complete deadline' Change Checkpoint[8],
> meaning that Fedora 23 Changes must now be code complete, meaning all the
> code required to enable to the new change is finished. The level of code
> completeness is reflected as tracker bug state ON_QA. The change does not
> have to be fully tested by this deadline'.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dennis
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
> [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
> [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
> [8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy

the schedule of course is at 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule and you need to have your 
Fedora 24 Changes code complete 

Dennis

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Fedora 24 Beta Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Today is an important day on the Fedora 24 schedule[1], with two significant 
cut-offs.

Today is the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which fix accepted 
blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as 'stable' and included 
in the Beta composes. Other builds will remain in updates-testing until the 
Beta release is approved, at which point the Beta freeze is lifted and 
packages can move to 'stable' as usual until the Final freeze.

Finally, Today is the '100% code complete deadline' Change Checkpoint[8], 
meaning that Fedora 23 Changes must now be code complete, meaning all the code 
required to enable to the new change is finished. The level of code 
completeness is reflected as tracker bug state ON_QA. The change does not have 
to be fully tested by this deadline'.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy

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weakdeps and the buildroot

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

Following the decision of FPC that weak deps must not be installed into the 
buildroot[1] koji has been changed to set install_weak_deps to 0. What this 
means is that some builds may fail due to missing things.  if you encounter 
this the correct fix is to add BuildRequires to you package for everything you 
explicitly need to build

Regards

Dennis


[1] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-03-24/fpc.
2016-03-24-16.01.log.html

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Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Alpha!

[Dennis Gilmore]

The Fedora 24 Alpha is here, right on schedule for our planned June
final release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site:

- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Workstation https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/
prerelease/
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Server https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Cloud https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Spins https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease 
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha Labs https://labs.fedoraproject.org/prerelease 
- Get Fedora 24 Alpha ARM https://arm.fedoraproject.org/prerelease 


What is the Alpha release?
--
The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 24's editions in
a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora
QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed,
we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete and
bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The
final release of Fedora 24 is expected in June.

If you take the time to download and try out the Alpha, you can check
and make sure the things that are important to YOU are working. Every
bug you find and report doesn't just help you, it improves the
experience of millions of Fedora users worldwide!

Together, we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of
coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as we
can, and your feedback improves not only Fedora, but Linux and Free
software as a whole.

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report


Fedora-Wide Changes
---
Under the hood, glibc has moved to 2.23.  The update includes better
performance, many bugfixes and improvements to POSIX compliance, and
additional locales. The new library is backwards compatible with the
version of glibc that was shipped in Fedora 23, and includes a number
of security and bug fixes.

We've also updated the system compiler to GCC 6 and rebuilt all
packages with that, providing greater code optimization and catching
programming errors which had slipped past previous compilers.

Workstation
---
- Workstation features a preview of GNOME 3.20, which was released
  just after the Alpha was cut. The GNOME 3.20 release is already
  available in the Fedora 24 update stream. Once you install Fedora 24
  Alpha, you can use Software or dnf to update. GNOME 3.20 will of
  course be part of Fedora 24 Beta and the Final release.

- We have decided not to make Wayland, the next generation graphic
  stack, the default in Fedora 24 Workstation. However, Wayland
  remains available as an option, and the Workstation team would
  greatly appreciate your help in testing. Our goal is one full
  release where the non-default Wayland option works seamlessly, or
  reasonably close thereto. At that point we will make Wayland the
  default with X11 as the fallback option.

- There have been many changes to theming in GTK+ 3, where a stable
  API has not been declared. As a result, applications that use custom
  CSS theming, for example, may show issues with their appearance.
  This may include default applications that come with Fedora 24 Alpha
  Workstation. Users are asked to try out their favorite GTK+ 3 based
  applications and report bugs upstream so they might be addressed in
  time for the final release.


Server
--
- FreeIPA 4.3 (Domain Controller role) is included in Fedora 24. This
  version helps streamline installation of replicas by adding a
  replica promotion method for new installs. A new topology plugin has
  also been added that automatically manages new replication segment
  creation. An effective replica topology visualization tool is also
  available in the webUI.

- More packages have been removed from the default Server edition to
  make the footprint of the default installation smaller.


Cloud
-
- For Fedora 24, we're working hard to make Fedora the best platform
  for developing containers, from the base Fedora container images to
  a full-featured PaaS to run and manage them.

- We're packaging OpenShift Origin for Fedora to make it easy to run
  on Fedora. OpenShift Origin is a distribution of Kubernetes
  optimized for enterprise application development and
  deployment. Origin embeds Kubernetes and adds powerful additional
  functionality to deliver an easy to approach developer and operator
  experience for building applications in containers.


Spins and Labs
--
Fedora Spins are alternative desktops for Fedora that provide a
different desktop experience than the standard Fedora Workstation
edition. Fedora Workstation is built on the GNOME desktop environment
and aims to provide a compelling, easy-to-use operating system for
software developers, while also being well-suited to other users. Our
spins showcase KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXDE, Mate-Compiz, Cinnamon, and
Sugar on a Stick (Soas) on the same Fedora Base.

Fedora Labs are collections 

Fedora 24 Alpha Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Today's an important day on the Fedora 24 schedule[1], with several
significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point
[2]. That means that from now all Fedora 24 packages must be submitted
to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements[3] before they
will be marked as 'stable' and moved to the fedora repository.

Today is also the Alpha freeze[4]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[5][6] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Alpha composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Alpha release is approved, at which point
the Alpha freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual
until the Beta freeze.

Today is also the Software String freeze[7], which means that strings
marked for translation in Fedora-translated projects should not now
be changed for Fedora 24.

Finally, today is the 'completion deadline' Change Checkpoint[8],
meaning that Fedora 24 Changes must now be 'feature complete or close
enough to completion that a majority of its functionality can be
tested'.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Bodhi_enabling
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Branched_release
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy

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Re: Fedora 24 Mass Rebuild

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Wednesday, February 03, 2016 09:40:22 AM Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Per the Fedora 24 schedule[1] we will be starting a mass rebuild for Fedora
> 24 very shortly.  We are doing a mass rebuild for Fedora 24 for
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC6
> 
> we will start the mass rebuild on 2016-02-03
> 
> This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over
> when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
> please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting.
> 
> You can contact releng in #fedora-releng on freenode.
> 
> Failures can be seen
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f24-failures.html
> 
> Things still needing rebuilt
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f24-need-rebuild.html
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dennis

The Mass Rebuild has been completed, 16129 builds have been tagged into f24, 
there s currently 1155 failed builds that need to be addressed by the package 
maintainers. FTBFS bugs will be filed shortly.

Thanks

Dennis

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Fedora 24 Mass Rebuild

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Per the Fedora 24 schedule[1] we will be starting a mass rebuild for Fedora 24
very shortly.  We are doing a mass rebuild for Fedora 24 for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC6

we will start the mass rebuild on 2016-02-03

This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over
when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting.

You can contact releng in #fedora-releng on freenode.

Failures can be seen 
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f24-failures.html

Things still needing rebuilt 
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f24-need-rebuild.html

Regards

Dennis


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F24 side tag deadline

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

With the mass rebuild for f24 coming up, all side tags need to be completed 
and merged back into f24 by the end of Business on Tuesday January 26th.

Thanks

Dennis

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Fedora 23 Final Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Today is an important day on the Fedora 23 schedule[1], with a
significant cut-offs. 

Today is the Final Freeze[2]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Final composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Final release is approved, at which point
the Final freeze is lifted and packages can move to the 'updates' repository, 
pending updates will be pushed before final release as zero day updates.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process

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rawhide buildroot creation changes

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

as of this morning US time we have changed the way rawhide buildroots are 
created in koji.  rawhide is now using dnf to install the packages into the 
buildroot. this means that in f24 and on dnf will be used to create the 
buildroot. as well as manage the updates on your system.

We will not be making the same change to f22 or f23 in koji,  yum will 
continue to create the buildroot there.  please report to Release Engineering 
[1][2][3] any issue you encounter as a result of this change.

Regards

Dennis

[1] #fedora-releng on freenode
[2] file a ticket in trac https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/
[3]  send an email to the list 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/rel-eng

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Announcing the release of Fedora 23 Beta!

[Dennis Gilmore]

Fedora 23 Beta Release Announcement
===

The Fedora 23 Beta is here, right on schedule for our planned
October final release! Want to help make Fedora 23 be the best
release ever, or just want to get a sneak peek? Download the
prerelease from our Get Fedora site and give it a whirl:

-   Get Fedora 23 Beta Workstation — a reliable, user-friendly, and
powerful operating system for your laptop or desktop computer
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/

-   Get Fedora 23 Beta Server — make use of the very latest
server-based technologies available in the open source community
https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/

-   Get Fedora 23 Beta Cloud — build scale-out computing and utilize
the next generation of container deployment technology
https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/

-   Get Fedora 23 Beta Spins — alternative desktops for Fedora
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease

-   Get Fedora 23 Beta Labs — curated bundles of purpose-driven
software and content
https://labs.fedoraproject.org/prerelease


What is the Beta release?
-

The Beta release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 23's
editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided
by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When
these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta
release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the
third and final release. The final release of Fedora 23 is expected
in October.

We need your help to make Fedora 23 the best yet, so please take
some time to download and try out the Beta and make sure the things
that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please
report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide.

Together, we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of
coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as
feasible, and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but
Linux and free software on the whole.


Fedora-Wide Changes
---

Fedora 23 includes a number of changes that will improve all of the
editions. For example, Fedora 23 makes use of compiler flags to
improve security by "hardening" the binaries against memory
corruption vulnerabilities, buffer overflows, and so on. This is a
"behind the scenes" change that most users won't notice through
normal use of a Fedora edition, but will help provide additional
system security.

Likewise, Fedora 23 has disabled SSL3 and RC4 by default due to
known vulnerabilities in the protocols. This means all applications
that use GNUTLS and OpenSSL libraries have had the SSL3 protocol
and RC4 cipher disabled.

Fedora 23 comes with the latest version of Mono 4. This means a big
improvement because we were stuck with an ancient version of Mono
(2.10) for too long. All packages within Fedora that are based on
Mono have been adjusted and rebuilt, to target the 4.5 version of
the .Net framework. Mono 4 does not support solutions targeting
v1.0, v2.0 or v3.5 of .Net, but usually they can be easily upgraded
to v4.5.

Fedora 23 Beta also includes support for Unicode 8.0, which
includes new emojis, and improvements in sorting Unicode text and
processing non-ASCII URLs.


Fedora Server
-

The Fedora Server release includes a number of interesting changes
and additions.

The rolekit service now supports setting up three roles. In
addition to the previously supported Domain Controller (powered by
FreeIPA abd Database Server (powered by PostgreSQL) roles, Fedora
Server 23 features a cache server for web applications (powered by
memcached).

Rolekit can also now be used from the anaconda kickstart by passing
the `--deferred` arguments to `rolectl`. For example: `rolectl
deploy domaincontroller --name=example.com --deferred` will
instruct the system to deploy the Domain Controller role on the
next boot.

The Cockpit Admin Interface in Fedora Server has several big
improvements as well.

-   Support for SSH key authentication
-   Support for configuring user accounts with their authorized keys.
-   Basic cluster dashboard for driving Kubernetes on Fedora Server
and Fedora Atomic Host.
-   Set the imezone for your Fedora Server from the Cockpit User
Interface (UI).
-   Cockpit has also been made safe to use with multipath disks.


Fedora Workstation
--

While there's a lot going on under the hood, desktop users are also
going to find Fedora 23 Beta pretty exciting for all the obvious
goodness coming to the desktop. The easiest way to experience the
preview of these technologies is to download and try the Fedora 23
Beta Workstation edition.

Naturally, GNOME is getting an upgrade, with Fedora 23 containing a
preview of the upcoming GNOME 3.18 release, which is easier to use
than ever. There are also many enhancements on the way, such as:

-   Improvements to next-gen

Fedora 23 Beta Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Tuesday was an important day on the Fedora 23 schedule[1], with two
significant cut-offs. 

Tuesday was the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Beta composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Beta release is approved, at which point
the Beta freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual
until the Final freeze.

Finally, Tuesday was the '100% code complete deadline' Change Checkpoint[8],
meaning that Fedora 23 Changes must now be ' New accepted changes must be code 
complete, meaning all the code required to enable to the new change is 
finished. The level of code completeness is reflected as tracker bug state 
ON_QA. The change does not have to be fully tested by this deadline'.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy

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Announcing the release of Fedora 23 Alpha!

[Dennis Gilmore]

Fedora 23 Alpha Release Announcement


The Fedora 23 Alpha is here, right on schedule for our planned
October final release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora
site:

* Get Fedora 23 Alpha Workstation:
  

* Get Fedora 23 Alpha Server:
  

* Get Fedora 23 Alpha Cloud:
  

* Get Fedora 23 Alpha Spins:
  


What is the Alpha release?
--

The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 23's
editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided
by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When
these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta
release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the
third and final release. The final release of Fedora 23 is expected
in October.

We need your help to make Fedora 23 the best release yet, so please
take some time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the
things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug,
please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide.

Together, we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of
coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as
feasible, and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but
Linux and free software on the whole.

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report


Fedora-Wide Changes
---

Fedora 23 includes a number of changes that will improve all of the
editions. For example, Fedora 23 is making use of compiler flags to
help improve security by "hardening" the binaries against memory
corruption vulnerabilities, buffer overflows, and so on. This is a
"behind the scenes" change that most users won't notice through
normal use of a Fedora edition, but should help provide additional
system security.

Likewise, Fedora 23 has disabled SSL3 and RC4 by default due to
known vulnerabilities in the protocols. This means all applications
that use GNUTLS and OpenSSL libraries have had the SSL3 protocol
and RC4 cipher disabled.

Fedora 23 Alpha also includes support for Unicode 8.0, which
includes new emojis, and improvements in sorting Unicode text and
processing non-ASCII URLs.


Other Notable Changes in the Alpha
--

While there's a lot going on under the hood, desktop users are also
going to find Fedora 23 Alpha pretty exciting for all the obvious
goodness coming to the desktop. The easiest way to experience the
preview of these technologies is to download and try the Fedora 23
Alpha Workstation edition.

Naturally, GNOME is getting an upgrade, with Fedora 23 containing a
preview of the upcoming GNOME 3.18 release, which is easier to use
than ever. There are also many enhancements on the way, such as
improvements to Wayland toward making it the default graphical
server in a future release; support for ambient backlight drivers
for a more responsive display on laptops; and changes to the
Software application so it can update system firmware, and be
smarter about metered Internet connections.

Users that are trying to get a little work done on Fedora will be
happy to see LibreOffice 5 in Fedora 23, which includes a lot of
new features and improvements: style previews in the sidebar,
Word-compatible text highlighting, built-in image crop, UI for data
bars in Calc, support for Time-Stamp Protocol in PDF export,
support for Adobe Swatch Exchange color palettes, import of Apple
Pages files, improved support for HiDPI screens, and significantly
improved support for MS Office formats.


Spins
-

Fedora "spins" are desktops or package sets for Fedora that provide
a different experience than the standard Fedora Workstation
edition. For instance, the Fedora KDE and Fedora Xfce spins provide
popular alternatives to GNOME for Fedora users who enjoy the KDE or
Xfce experience.

There's a new spin in town for Fedora 23. Want a classic take on a
modern desktop? If so, the Cinnamon spin may just be what you're
hoping to find. Fedora 23 includes a spin that tries to emulate the
GNOME 2 experience using GNOME 3 shell.


Issues and Details
--

This is an Alpha release. As such, we expect that you may encounter
bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during
testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the mailing list or in
#fedora-qa on freenode.

As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F23
Bugs page. For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to
file a bug report."

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F23_bugs
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report


Release Schedule


The full release schedule is available on the F

Fedora 23 Alpha Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Today's an important day on the Fedora 23 schedule[1], with several
significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point
[2]. That means that from now all Fedora 23 packages must be submitted
to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements[3] before they
will be marked as 'stable' and moved to the fedora repository.

Today is also the Alpha freeze[4]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[5][6] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Alpha composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Alpha release is approved, at which point
the Alpha freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual
until the Beta freeze.

Today is also the Software String freeze[7], which means that strings
marked for translation in Fedora-translated projects should not now
be changed for Fedora 23.

Finally, today is the 'completion deadline' Change Checkpoint[8],
meaning that Fedora 23 Changes must now be 'feature complete or close
enough to completion that a majority of its functionality can be
tested'.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Bodhi_enabling
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Branched_release
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy

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Fedora 23 Mass Branching

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

Fedora 23 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to
pick up the new branch, as an additional reminder rawhide/f24 has had
inheritance cut off from previous releases,  so this means that
anything you do for f23 you also have to do in the master branch and do
a build there. This is the same as we did for previous Fedora releases.

Dennis

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Fedora 20 End Of Life

[Dennis Gilmore]

As of 23rd of June 2015, Fedora 20 has reached its end of life for
updates and support. No further updates, including security updates,
will be available for Fedora 20. A previous reminder was sent on
27th of May [0].

Fedora 21 will continue to receive updates until approximately one
month after the release of Fedora 23.  The maintenance schedule of
Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki [1].  The
Fedora Project wiki also contains instructions [2] on how to upgrade
from a previous release of Fedora to a version receiving updates.

Kevin

[0]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2015-May/003267.html
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedule
[2] 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades

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Re: Fedora 23 mass rebuild

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

the mass rebuild has been done and is baing tagged back into f23 in koji, so 
it will land in the buildroots shortly and in rawhide tomorrow. Please check 
and fix any of your packages that failed to build. they can be found at 
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f23-failures.html at teh time 
of writing there are 997 packages that need fixing

Thanks

Dennis

On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 04:00:03 PM Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Per the Fedora 23 schedule[1] we will be starting a mass rebuild for Fedora
> 23 very shortly.  It was requested in a trac ticket[2]
> that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 23 for
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC5
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
> 
> we will start the mass rebuild on 2015-06-16.
> 
> This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over
> when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
> please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dennis
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
> [2] https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6162


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Fedora 23 mass rebuild

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Per the Fedora 23 schedule[1] we will be starting a mass rebuild for Fedora 23 
very shortly.  It was requested in a trac ticket[2] 
that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 23 for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC5
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages

we will start the mass rebuild on 2015-06-16.

This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over
when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting.

Dennis

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6162

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Reminder: Fedora 20 end of life on 2015-06-23

[Dennis Gilmore]

Greetings.

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 20.

Fedora 20 will reach end of life on 2015-06-23, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 22, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 20
collection.

Please see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 20 to a newer release.


Dennis

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Fedora 22 Final Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Today is an important day on the Fedora 22 schedule[1], with a
significant cut-offs. 

Today is the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Final composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Final release is approved, at which point
the Final freeze is lifted and packages can move to the 'updates' repository, 
pending updates will be pushed before final release as zero day updates.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/22/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy

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Announcing the release of Fedora 22 Beta!

[Dennis Gilmore]

Fedora 22 Beta Release Announcement
===

The Fedora 22 Beta release has arrived, with a preview of the latest
free and open source technology under development. Take a peek inside!

-   [Get Fedora 22 Beta
Workstation](https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/)
-   [Get Fedora 22 Beta
Server](https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/)
-   [Get Fedora 22 Beta
Cloud](https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/)
-   [Get Fedora 22 Beta
Spins](https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease)

What is the Beta release?
-

The Beta release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 22's
editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by
the [Fedora QA team](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA), helps us
target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta
release available. A Beta release is meant to be feature complete and
bears  a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. 
The final release of Fedora 22 is expected in May.

We need your help to make Fedora 22 the best release yet, so please take
some time to download and try out the Beta and make sure the things that
are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report
it – every bug you uncover (and/or help fix!) is a chance to improve
the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide.

Together, we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of
coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as
feasible, and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux
and free software on the whole.

### Base platform

-   Faster and better dependency management: yum has been replaced with
dnf as the default package manager. dnf has very similar command
line options and configuration files compared to yum but also has
several major internal changes including using libsolv in
coordination with friends from the openSUSE project for faster and
better dependency management. dnf-yum provides automatic redirection
from yum to dnf in the command line for compatibility. The classic
yum command line tool renamed to yum-deprecated as a transitional
step for tools still using it.

### Fedora 22 Cloud

The Fedora 22 Cloud Edition builds on the work completed during the
Fedora 21 cycle, and brings in a number of improvements that make Fedora
22 a superb choice for running Linux in the cloud.

Ready for the Fedora 22 release, we have:

-   The latest versions of rpm-ostree and rpm-ostree-toolbox. You can
even use rpm-ostree-toolbox to generate your own Atomic hosts from a
custom set of packages.

-   Introduction of the Atomic command line tool to help manage Linux
containers on Atomic Hosts and update Atomic Hosts.

### Fedora 22 Server

Fedora 22 Server Edition brings several changes that will improve Fedora
for use as a server in your environment.

-   Database Server Role: Fedora 21 introduced rolekit, a daemon for
Linux systems that provides a stable D-Bus interface to manage
deployment of server roles. The Fedora 22 release adds onto that
work with a database server role based on PostgreSQL.

-   Cockpit Updates: The Cockpit Web-based management application has
been updated to the latest upstream release which adds many new
features as well as a modular design for adding new functionality.

-   XFS as default filesystem. XFS scales better for servers and can
handle higher storage capacity and we have made it the default
filesystem for Fedora 22 server users. Other filesystems including
ext4 will continue to be supported and the ability to choose them
have been retained.

### Fedora 22 Workstation

As always, Fedora carries a number of improvements to make life better
for its desktop users and developers! Here's some of the goodness you'll
get in Fedora 22 Workstation edition.

Enhancements:

-   The GNOME Shell notification system has been redesigned and subsumed
into the calendar widget.
-   The Terminal now notifies you when a long running job completes.
-   The login screen now uses Wayland by default with automatic fallback
to Xorg when necessary. This is a transitional step towards
replacing Xorg with Wayland by default in the next release and
should have no user visible difference.
-   Installation of GStreamer codecs, fonts, and certain document types
is now handled by Software, instead of gnome-packagekit.
-   The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) now features better
notifications, and uses the privacy control panel in GNOME to
control information sent.

Appearance:

-   The Nautilus file manager has been improved to use GActions, from
the deprecated GtkAction APIs, for a better, more consistent
experience.
-   The GNOME Shell has a refreshed theme for better usability.
-   The Qt/Adwaita theme is now code complete, and Qt notifications have
been improved for smoother experience using Qt-

Fedora 22 Beta Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

Tuesday was an important day on the Fedora 22 schedule[1], with two
significant cut-offs. 

Tuesday was the Beta freeze[2]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[3][4] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Beta composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Beta release is approved, at which point
the Beta freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual
until the Final freeze.

Finally, Tuesday was the '100% code complete deadline' Change Checkpoint[8],
meaning that Fedora 22 Changes must now be ' New accepted changes must be code 
complete, meaning all the code required to enable to the new change is 
finished. The level of code completeness is reflected as tracker bug state 
ON_QA. The change does not have to be fully tested by this deadline'.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/22/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy
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Fedora 22 Alpha Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

Today's an important day on the Fedora 22 schedule[1], with several
significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point
[2]. That means that from now all Fedora 22 packages must be submitted
to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements[3] before they
will be marked as 'stable' and moved to the fedora repository.

Today is also the Alpha freeze[4]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[5][6] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Alpha composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Alpha release is approved, at which point
the Alpha freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual
until the Beta freeze.

Today is also the Software String freeze[7], which means that strings
marked for translation in Fedora-translated projects should not now
be changed for Fedora 22.

Finally, today is the 'completion deadline' Change Checkpoint[8],
meaning that Fedora 22 Changes must now be 'feature complete or close
enough to completion that a majority of its functionality can be
tested'.

Regards

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/22/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Bodhi_enabling
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Branched_release
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy
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Re: All packagers to be added to the new notifications system

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:30:40 -0500
Ralph Bean  wrote:

> As previously announced[1], the infrastructure team is going to be
> adding all of the members of the packager group to the new
> fedmsg notifications system (FMN)[2].
> 
> It is currently an opt-in system, and this event will just invert
> things to make it opt-out; you can still disable notifications from
> it in the web interface.
> 
> The cut-over will happen next week on Wednesday, February 11th.
> 
> Thank you,
>  Ralph Bean
> 
> [1]
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2014-September/001434.html
> [2] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/notifications/

To follow up here. Koji's internal notifications have been turned off.
the only way to get notifications now for koji is to use FMN

Dennis
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Reminder: Fedora 19 end of life on 2015-01-06

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Greetings. 

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 19.

Fedora 19 will reach end of life on 2015-01-06, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 21, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 19
collection. 

Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 19 to a newer release. 


Dennis
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Fedora 21 Final Change Freeze

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Hi all,

as the Fedora 21 schedule[1] states the Final change freeze is upon
us. As of now only updates that fix an accepted Final Blocker bug or
Freeze exception will be allowed in. 

we are at the post beta stage of release, so the Pre-release[3]
stage of the updates policy applies. 

Regards

Dennis

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-21/f-21-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Pre_release
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Announcing the release of Fedora 21 Beta!

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The Fedora 21 beta release is here, and - as usual - is packed
with amazing improvements to Fedora, as well as fantastic free
and open source software, gently harvested for your enjoyment. No
bits were harmed in the making of this beta.

What is the Beta Release? 
=

The beta release is the last important milestone before the
release of Fedora 21. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a
very strong resemblance to the third and final release. Only
critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates up to the general
release of Fedora 21. The final release of Fedora 21 is
[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/Schedule] expected in
early December. Meanwhile, download the beta of Fedora 21 and
help us make it even better:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

We need your help to make Fedora 21 the best release yet, so
please take some time to download and try out the beta and make
sure the things that are important to you are working. If you
find a bug, please report it:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report

Every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for 
millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora 21
a rock-solid distribution. We have a culture of coordinating new 
features and pushing fixes upstream as much as feasible and your 
feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux and free 
software on the whole.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects

(See the end of this announcement for more information on how to help.)

Since it's a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A
list of problems that we already know about can be found at the
Common F21 bugs page:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F21_bugs

Fedora.Next and Fedora 21 Products 
==

As part of the Fedora.next initiative, Fedora 21 will boast three 
products, Cloud, Server, and Workstation:

* Cloud: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud
* Server: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server
* Workstation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation


We encourage you to visit the wiki pages providing the details 
of these individual products for more information.

Spins 
- -

In addition to the new Fedora products, Fedora users also have
the choice of Fedora Spins that highlight user favorites like KDE
Plasma Workspaces, Xfce, LXDE, and Sugar on a Stick (SoaS). If
you're interested in trying out one of the spins, head over to
the prelease page for Fedora Spins and grab the spins you're 
interested in: 

http://fedoraproject.org/get-spin-prerelease

Fedora 21 Base 
- --

Each of the products will build on the "base" set of packages for
Fedora. For instance, each product will use the same packages for
the kernel, RPM, Yum, systemd, Anaconda, and so forth.

The Base Working Group develops the standard platform for all Fedora 
products, which includes the installer, compose tools, and basic
platform for the other products. The Base set of packages is not a full
product intended for use on its own, but to be kept as a small, stable
platform for other products to build on.

Highlights in the Beta Release
==

In this section, we'll look at some of the things that are new or
interesting in the Beta release.

A Note on Shellshocked
- --

You've probably read all about the "Shellshocked" vulnerability
in GNU Bash, which affected Fedora 19, 20, and 21 Alpha. Rest
assured that Fedora 21 beta has been patched to close this
vulnerability.

Fedora 21 Cloud
===

The Fedora Cloud Working Group and Special Interest Group (SIG)
has been busy leading up to Fedora 21. Cloud is now a top-level
product for Fedora 21, and will include images for use in private
cloud environments like OpenStack, as well as AMIs for use on
Amazon, and a new image streamlined for running Docker
containers.

Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud
- --

Space is precious, and there's little reason to include drivers
for hardware that doesn't exist in the cloud. As part of the work
for Fedora 21, the cloud SIG and kernel team split the kernel into 
two packages. One package contains the minimum modules for running 
in a virtualized environment, the other contains the larger set of
modules for a more general installation. As a result, the F21
beta cloud image is 10% smaller than F20, making for faster
deployment.

Fedora Atomic Host
- --

Red Hat announced Project Atomic (http://projectatomic.io/),
in early April of this year as an effort to provide the tools 
and patterns for a streamlined operating system to run Docker 
containers. The Fedora 21 release will be the first to offer 
an "Atomic" host for Fedora, which includes a minimal set
of packages and an image composed with rpm-ostree.

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Nominations for Engineering representative to the Fedora Council

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi All,

As you are likely aware, we are undergoing some changes in governance[1]
for Fedora On behalf of FESCo I am writing to you all to ask for
nominations. preferably people will self nominate, however we will
accept nominations from others as longa s the nominated person agrees
to be considered.

In order to submit your nomination please notify FESCo via the
currently open ticket[2] in trac requesting a FESCo appointee. you have
until Tuesday October 21 @ 23:59 UTC to get nominations in. FESCo will
choose a representive in next weeks meeting.

Thank you

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1355
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Fedora 21 Beta Change Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

as the Fedora 21 schedule[1] states the Beta change freeze is upon
us. As of now all Beta freeze only accepted exceptions[2] will be
allowed in. 


we are at the beta stage of release, so the Beta_to_Pre_Release[3]
stage of the updates policy applies. 

Regards

Dennis

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-21/f-21-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Beta_to_Pre_Release
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Re: F21 Alpha Change Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:47:02 -0500
Dennis Gilmore  wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> As the Fedora 21 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon
> us and we have a confidence in delivering RC composes. As we are now
> at the change freeze bodhi will be enabled for f21 tomorrow morning US
> Time. It means all builds will now need an update created and as we
> are at Alpha freeze only accepted exceptions[2] will be allowed in. 
> 
> 
> we are at the pre beta stage of release, so the Pre-beta[3] stage of
> the updates policy applies

Bodhi has now been enabled, you need to create updates for f21 builds
and only FreezeException and blocker bugs fixes will be allowed into
stable until Alpha is ready. additionally you now need to create
buildroot overrides if you need to build against something new.

Dennis
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F21 Alpha Change Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

As the Fedora 21 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon
us and we have a confidence in delivering RC composes. As we are now at
the change freeze bodhi will be enabled for f21 tomorrow morning US
Time. It means all builds will now need an update created and as we are
at Alpha freeze only accepted exceptions[2] will be allowed in. 


we are at the pre beta stage of release, so the Pre-beta[3] stage of the
updates policy applies

Regards

Dennis

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-21/f-21-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Pre_Beta
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Special mass rebuild

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi All,

It was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5962
that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 21 and 22 of all archful packages

This is due to an ABI issue on s390/x and some gcc issues. 

we will start the mass rebuild on 2014-08-14.

This is a heads up that it will be done in side tags and moved over
when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting.

Dennis
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Fedora 21 Mass Branching

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi All,

Fedora 21 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to
pick up the new branch, as an additional reminder rawhide/f22 has had
inheritance cut off from previous releases,  so this means that
anything you do for f21 you also have to do in the master branch and do
a build there. This is the same as we did for fedora 19 and 20.

Dennis
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Re: Fedora 21 Mass rebuild update

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi All,

I am in the process of tagging the mass rebuild into f21 it will land
in the next rawhide which due to the size will take some time to
compose, and sync out to the mirrors

The tagging script tells me it is "Checking 13923 builds..." there is a
very large number of failures[1]. There seems to be a very large number
of java and ruby failures. so people interested in those stacks please
get onto them and fix them quickly

Regards,
Dennis

[1] http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f21-failures.html

On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 08:51:06 -0500
Dennis Gilmore  wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> We merged in the side tags on May 27, and on June 6 kicked off the
> mass rebuild. we are currently about 1/3rd of the way through.
> 
> You can see the current list of failures[1] and list to be built[2].
> Both lists are updated every 5 minutes. at the end of the initial run
> though we will file bugs for all FTBFS. Please be sure to get on top
> of FTBFS quickly as they need to be done before the Alpha Change
> deadline of 2014-07-22.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> [1] http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f21-failures.html
> [2] http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f21-need-rebuild.html
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Fedora 21 Mass rebuild update

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

We merged in the side tags on May 27, and on June 6 kicked off the
mass rebuild. we are currently about 1/3rd of the way through.

You can see the current list of failures[1] and list to be built[2].
Both lists are updated every 5 minutes. at the end of the initial run
though we will file bugs for all FTBFS. Please be sure to get on top of
FTBFS quickly as they need to be done before the Alpha Change deadline
of 2014-07-22.

Dennis

[1] http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f21-failures.html
[2] http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f21-need-rebuild.html
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Re: Mass Rebuild for Fedora 21

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Wed, 14 May 2014 13:20:24 -0500
Dennis Gilmore  wrote:

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> Hi All,
> 
> It was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5877
> that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 21 for
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC49
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F21Make40
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Java8
> 
> we will start the mass rebuild on 2014-06-06, all existing side tags
> and anything that you wish to land in Fedora before the mass rebuild
> needs to be completed by 2014-04-26. we will be merging over all side
> tags at that point and removing the targets for them.

The side tags will be merged 2014-05-26

Dennis
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Mass Rebuild for Fedora 21

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi All,

It was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5877
that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 21 for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC49
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F21Make40
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Java8

we will start the mass rebuild on 2014-06-06, all existing side tags
and anything that you wish to land in Fedora before the mass rebuild
needs to be completed by 2014-04-26. we will be merging over all side
tags at that point and removing the targets for them.

This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over
when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting.

Dennis

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EPEL 7 Development

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi All,

Yesterday we opened up epel7 for people to request branches and
contribute to there is a FAQ[1]. The things to note at this point in
time. epel7 is working like rawhide with daily automated composes, we
will endevour to sign all packages but as with any disjointed process
there could be packages missed. The git branch, tagging in koji and
packagedb all use epel7, to support this we needed a minor change to
fedpkg you will need to make sure you have fedpkg-1.15-1 installed, its
currently in updates-testing for fedora 19 and el6 and was not
backported to fedora 18.

you can request your package be branched for epel by filling in the
table at the request page[2]. The list will be processed regularly you
will get emails from packagedb when it is done, additionally you can
also use bugzilla but thats a little more tedious and results in extra
bugzilla noise. closer to going stable we will shut off request via the
wiki.

To see if a package you are interesting in maintaing the full list of
package names in the public beta is also in the wiki[3].

Thanks to everyone that helps with epel7

Dennis

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/epel7beta-faq
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/epel7/Requests
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/epel7
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Reminder: Fedora 18 end of life on 2014-01-14

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Greetings. 

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 18. 

Fedora 18 will reach end of life on 2014-01-14, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 20, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 18
collection. 

Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 18 to a newer release. 


Dennis
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nightly compose changes

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

As of today we have changed the nightly branched and rawhide compose 
processes to generate livecds for all spins, as well as the arm disk 
images and cloud disk images. There is still further work to go. next 
phase will be to put together a set of nightly trees and notification 
process.


until then livecds can be found:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=all&view=tree&method=livecd&order=-id

disk images can be found:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=all&view=tree&method=appliance&order=-id

the first round failed for most images for various reasons, branched 
being broken deps in dnf. If you wuld like to know more infomration or 
want to help please speak up, either here the releng mailing list or on 
irc in #fedora-releng


Dennis
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Rawhide and branched nightly compose changes

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

I have just changed the starting times of the nightly branched
composes. Rawhide now kicks off 3 hours earlier at 05:15 UTC. Branched
now starts 2 hours earlier at 07:15 UTC. Releng is working to integrate
the nightly livecd composes into the automated compose process, as well
as adding nightly arm and cloud image creation.

as we stabilise the compose processes we will add a separate email with
a notification of the nightly image composition completion.

Dennis
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Announcing the release of Fedora 20 Beta!

[Dennis Gilmore]

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The Fedora 20 "Heisenbug" beta release has arrived with a preview of
the latest fantastic, free, and open source technology currently under
development. Take a peek inside:

*** What is the Beta Release? ***

The beta release is the last important milestone before the release of Fedora
20. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the
third and final release. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates up
to the general release of Fedora 20. The final release of Fedora 20 is expected
in early December. Meanwhile, download the beta of Fedora 20 and help us make
it even better:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

We need your help to make Fedora 20 the best release yet, so please take some
time to download and try out the beta and make sure the things that are
important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it – every bug
you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users
worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora 20 a rock-solid distribution. We have a
culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as
feasible and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux and free
software on the whole. (See the end of this announcement for more information
on how to help.)

Since it's a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A list of
problems that we already know about can be found at the Common F20 bugs page,
found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs.

== 10 Years of Fedora ==

The Fedora 20 release coincides nicely with the 10th anniversary of Fedora. The
first Fedora release (then called Fedora Core 1) came out on November 6, 2003.

Since then, the Fedora Project has become an active and vibrant community that
produces nearly a dozen "spins" that are tailor made for desktop users,
hardware design, gaming, musicians, artists, and early classroom environments.

== ARM as a Primary Architecture ==

While Fedora has supported a number of hardware architectures over the years,
x86/x86_64 has been the default for the majority of Fedora users and for the
Linux community in general.

ARM, however, has been making massive strides. It already dominates the mobile
market, and is becoming a go-to platform for hobbyists and makers, and is
showing enormous promise for the server market as well.

In keeping with Fedora's commitment to innovation, the Fedora community has
been pushing to make ARM a primary architecture to satisfy the needs of users
and developers targeting the ARM platform.

*** Maturity and Advanced Features ***

Sometimes it's not the big new features that make a users' experience better,
it's the little enhancements or long-awaited tricky features that really help
make a new release the bee's knees.

=== NetworkManager Improvements ===

NetworkManager is getting several improvements in Fedora 20 that will be
welcome additions for power users and system administrators.

Users will now be able to add, edit, delete, activate, and de-activate network
connections via the nmcli command line tool, which will make life much easier
for non-desktop uses of Fedora.

NetworkManager is also getting support for bonding interfaces and bridging
interfaces. Bonding and bridging are used in many enterprise setups and are
necessary for virtualization and fail-over scenarios.

=== No Default Sendmail, Syslog ===

Fedora 20 removes some services that many users find unnecessary, though (of
course) they will remain available as installable packages for users who might
need them.

The systemd journal now takes the place as the default logging solution, having
been tested and able to manage persistent logging in place of syslog.

Also, Sendmail will no longer be installed by default, as most Fedora installs
have no need of a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).

=== Cloud and Virtualization Improvements ===

The Fedora 20 release continues the Fedora tradition of adopting and
integrating leading edge technologies used in cloud computing. This release
includes a number of features that will make working with virtualization and
cloud computing much easier.

=== First-Class Cloud Images ===

The Fedora Cloud SIG has been working hard on providing images that are
well-suited to running as guests in public and private clouds like Amazon Web
Services (AWS) and OpenStack. If you're using public or private cloud, you
should definitely test-drive the beta images today!

=== OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning ===

LVM has introduced thin provisioning technology, which provides greatly
improved snapshot functionality in addition to thin provisioning capability.
This change will make it possible to configure thin provisioning during OS
installation.

=== VM Snapshot UI with virt-manager ===

This change will make taking VM snapshots much easier. qemu and libvirt have
all the major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints,
however there isn

Fedora 20 Beta Change Freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

as the Fedora 20 schedule[1] states the Beta change freeze is upon
us. As of now all Beta freeze only accepted exceptions[2] will be
allowed in. 


we are at the beta stage of release, so the Beta_to_Pre_Release[3]
stage of the updates policy applies. 

Regards

Dennis

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-20/f-20-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Beta_to_Pre_Release
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Reminder on how to EOL a package

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

As the procedure recently changed a little and many people have gotten
it wrong for a long time I wanted to bring to everyones attention the
proper procedure to retire a package that is no longer useful.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

its now one step from the CLI assuming you have a new enough fedpkg
installed fedpkg-1.13-1 or newer. many thanks to Till for the
implementation.

Also please note that you are not to Retire packages for stable
Fedora's we have no way to remove them and If you retire it they will
be in a weird state where the package will be in the repos and
available to install but koji will say its blocked. It will create
confusion for both users and fellow developers. So DO NOT DO IT.

Thanks

Dennis
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Fedora 20 Alpha Change freeze

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Hi all,

as the Fedora 20 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon
us. As we are now at the change freeze bodhi has been enabled for f20
now. It means all builds will now need an update cretaed and as we are
at Alpha freeze only accepted exceptions[2] will be allowed in. 


we are at the pre beta stage of release, so the Pre-beta[3] stage of the
updates policy applies

Regards

Dennis

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-20/f-20-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Pre_Beta
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Fedora 20 Mass Branching

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Hi All,

Fedora 20 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to
pick up the new branch, as an additional reminder rawhide/f21 has had
inheritance cut off from previous releases,  so this means that
anything you do for f20 you also have to do in the master branch and do
a build there. This is the same as we did for fedora 19.

Dennis
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Re: mass rebuild update

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Thanks to the addition of arm and its 48 builders the releng pass
though on the mass rebuild is done.

for a comparison to f19
f19:
 
Feb 13: 1096
Feb 14: 1445
Feb 15: 1548
Feb 16: 2175
Feb 17: 1168
Feb 18: 1476
Feb 19: 2
 
f20:
 
Aug 02:1261
Aug 03:7067
Aug 04:3329

we did make some changes on the x86 builders post f19 mass rebuild
which helped disk IO on them. but this is by far the fastest mass
rebuild to date. There is a large number of failures[1] that need to be
addressed.

Dennis

On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 00:07:15 -0500
Dennis Gilmore  wrote:

> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have merged perl info f20 and started the mass rebuild.
> 
> You can see the current list of failures[1] and list to be built[2].
> Both lists are updated every 5 minutes. at the end of the initial run
> though we will file bugs for all FTBFS. Please be sure to get on top
> of FTBFS quickly as there is not a lot of time before Alpha Change
> deadline.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> [1] http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f20-failed.html
> [2]http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f20-needsbuilt.html

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mass rebuild update

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

I have merged perl info f20 and started the mass rebuild.

You can see the current list of failures[1] and list to be built[2].
Both lists are updated every 5 minutes. at the end of the initial run
though we will file bugs for all FTBFS. Please be sure to get on top of
FTBFS quickly as there is not a lot of time before Alpha Change
deadline.

Dennis

[1] http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f20-failed.html
[2]http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f20-needsbuilt.html
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Reminder: Fedora 17 end of life on 2013-07-30

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Greetings. 

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 17. 

Fedora 17 will reach end of life on 2013-07-30, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 19, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 17
collection. 

Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 17 to a newer release. 


Dennis
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Pending Fedora 19 Change Freeze - 2013-06-18

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Hi all,

as the Fedora 19 schedule[1] states the Final change freeze is almost
upon us. The last stable push will be done as late as possible on June
17 in the US, after that point only Final freeze exceptions will be
accepted[2] and allowed into Fedora 19. what does this mean to you. If
you want something in best way is to make sure you get it tested and
karma to go stable over the weekend.


we are approaching the Final stage of release, once freeze kicks in
the Pre_Release[3] stage of the updates policy will apply.

Regards

Dennis

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-19/f-19-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Pre_release
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Fedora 19 Beta Change Freeze

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Hi all,

as the Fedora 19 schedule[1] states the Beta change freeze is upon
us. As of now all Beta freeze only accepted exceptions[2] will be allowed in. 


we are at the beta stage of release, so the Beta_to_Pre_Release[3]
stage of the updates policy applies. 

Regards

Dennis

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-19/f-19-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Beta_to_Pre_Release
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Announcing the release of Fedora 19 Alpha!

[Dennis Gilmore]

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The Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" alpha release has arrived with a
preview of the latest fantastic, free, and open source technology
currently under development. Take a peek inside:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

*** What is the Alpha Release? ***

The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 19 in a
form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA
team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we
make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete and
bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The
final release of Fedora 19 is expected in early July.

We need your help to make Fedora 19 the best release yet, so please
take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make
sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a
bug, please report it--every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can
make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (See the "Contributing" section
at end of this announcement for more information on how to help.)

*** Features ***

Fedora prides itself on bringing cutting-edge technologies to users of
open source software around the world, and this release continues that
tradition. No matter what you do, Fedora 19 has the tools you need to
help you get things done. 

A complete list with details of each new feature is available here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList

== Create and Develop ==

Would you like to play? Whether you're a developer, maker, or just
starting to learn about open source development, we have what you need
to bring your ideas to reality. Here's a peek at some of our new tools:

* Developer's Assistant is great for those new to development or even
  new to Linux, this tool helps you to get started on a code project
  with templates, samples, and toolchains for the languages of your
  choice. Bonus: It lets you publish directly to GitHub.

* OpenShift Origin makes it easy for you to build your own
  Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) infrastructure, allowing you to enable
  others to easily develop and deploy software.

* 3D modelling and printing are enabled through a variety of tools,
  including OpenSCAD, Skeinforge, SFACT, Printrun, and RepetierHost.

* node.js is a popular Javascript-based platform for those building
  scalable network applications or real-time apps across distributed
  devices.  Also included is the npm package manager, providing access
  to over 20,000 programs and libraries available under free and open
  source licenses.

* Ruby 2.0.0, just released in February, comes to Fedora while
  maintaining source-level backwards compatibility with your Ruby 1.9.3
  software. Also included: a custom Ruby loader for easy switching of
  interpreters.

* Scratch, a graphical, educational programming environment lets you
  (and even better, the kids you introduce it to) create interactive
  stories, games, animation, music, and art.

== Deploy, Monitor, and Manage ==

Make your machines work for you--not the other way around. Whether you
have one or "one too many" machines, Fedora 19 helps you boot manage
your systems and enables you to be proactive with tools for diagnosis,
monitoring, and logging.

* Syslinux optional boot tool integration brings you optional,
  simplified booting of Fedora. We have added support for using
  syslinux instead of GRUB via kickstart and plan to add a hidden
  option in Anaconda installer as well. syslinux is especially ideal
  for images used in cloud environments and virt appliances where the
  advanced features of GRUB is not needed. 

* systemd Resource Control lets you modify your service settings
  without a reboot by dynamically querying and modifying resource
  control parameters at runtime. This is one of many systemd
  enhancements in Fedora 19.

* Checkpoint & Restore provides the ability to checkpoint and restore a
  process and is useful for cases such as process failure, or moving a
  process to another machine for maintenance or load balancing.

* Virt storage migration lets you move a virtual machine *and* in-use
  storage without requiring shared storage between the hosts--a
  significant improvement upon previous capabilities.

* OpenLMI is a common infrastructure for the management of Linux
  systems that makes remote management of machines much simpler.

* High Availability Container Resources extend the corosync/pacemaker
  HA stack beyond management of virtual guests to containers inside the
  guests themselves. Define and add containers in your virtual guests
  through discovery. 

*** Desktop Environments and Spins ***

= GNOME 3.8 =

GNOME 3.8 brings new applications such as clock and improvements to the
desktop including privacy and sharing settings, ordered search,
frequent applications overview, and additionally provides the ability
to ena

Fedora 19 Alpha Change freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

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Hi all,

as the Fedora 19 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon
us. As we are now at the change freeze bodhi has been enabled for f19
now. it means all builds will now need an update cretaed and as we are
at Alpha freeze only accepted exceptions[2] will be allowed in. 


we are at the pre beta stage of release, so the Pre-beta[3] stage of the
updates policy applies

Regards

Dennis

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-19/f-19-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Pre_Beta
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f19 mass branching

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Hi All,

F19 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to pick
up the new branch, additionally rawhide/f20 has had inheritance cut off
from previous releases,  so this means that anything you do for f19 you
also have to do in the master branch and do a build there.

Dennis
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Re: Mass Rebuild for Fedora 19

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El Fri, 8 Feb 2013 03:40:09 -0600
Dennis Gilmore  escribió:
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> it was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1004 that
> we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 19 for
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GCC48
> 
> Additionally we will be mass patching config.guess and config.sub to
> support aarch64 in preperation for 64 bit arm support
> 
> we will start the mass rebuild on 2013-02-12 
> 
> This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over
> when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
> please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the
> reporting.
> 
> Dennis

Mass rebuild has just been tagged into f19, due to issues with the
script that we had for creating the patches to autoconf we didn't run
that portion of things. if your upstream hasn't release lately please
take a look at your package to see if it needs anything. ideally fixing
it upstream so the universe benefits

Dennis
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Mass Rebuild for Fedora 19

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it was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1004 that
we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 19 for
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GCC48

Additionally we will be mass patching config.guess and config.sub to
support aarch64 in preperation for 64 bit arm support

we will start the mass rebuild on 2013-02-12 

This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over
when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting.

Dennis
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ARM arches in F19 and forward.

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

This is just a note for a wider audience. the Fedora ARM has dropped
support for software floating point going forward,  we will only be
building hardware floating point binaries from Fedora 19 on.  it was
discussed at FUDCon and on the arm list the FUDCon notes
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Meetings/FUDCon_Lawrence_2013#Future
show that we were going to look at having F19 be the last softfp
supporting release after further thought and discussion we are dropping
from F19 and F18 will be the last release supporting sfp so those with
sfp only devices, which the only supported ones are kirkwood based
devices like the guruplug will get software support for about 1 year
more.

The Raspberry Pi will be supported by the efforts at Seneca College
with armv6hl it will support hardware floating point. 

Longer term we will start to support aarch64 

Regards

Dennis
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f18 mass branching

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Mass branching for f18 is complete. please be sure to do a git pull. to
get the f18 branch. also please be sure to use the latest fedpkg
dist-rawhide has been removed if your tools are too old you wont be able
to build for rawhide.

Dennis
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Mass rebuild cleanup

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Hi All, With branching for f18 happening on Tuesday next week we still
have quite a large number of failures  and packages needing rebuilt.

the list of 415 current failures can be found at 
http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f18-failures.html

while the total rebuild list of 545 can be found at
http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f18-needsbuilt.html

please fix them before branching. anything not built will start on the
process of being removed from fedora.

Dennis
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Mass rebuild for Fedora 18

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it was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5222 that
we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 18 for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DwarfCompressor and
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo due to a mix up
in dates it was going to start on 2012-07-30 but since that only gives
a week to do the rebuild before branching for f18 on 2012-08-07 we will
be starting the mass rebuild on 2012-07-18 

This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over
when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats.
please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting.

Dennis
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Reminder: Fedora 15 end of life on 2012-06-26

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Greetings. 

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 15. 

Fedora 15 will reach end of life on 2012-06-26, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 17, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 15
collection. 

Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 15 to a newer release. 


Dennis
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Fedora 17 Change Freeze

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Hi all,

the fedora 17 schedule
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/Schedule lists the final
change freeze as 2012-05-07 this means that you need to make sure that
any changes you want in Fedora 17 final must be submited for stable in
Bodhi before 2012-05-07 there will be a small window on monday where
you can get your build in still but it is not assured. after this time
only blocker bugs will be accepted to be pushed for stable.  please
work on testing and ensuring anything you want in final has the
appropriate karma. If you have questions please drop by #fedora-releng
on freenode

Thanks

Dennis
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Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 17 Beta!

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Lets try again.  its really Fedora 17 Beta, we have not yet entered a
time vortex and skipped ahead,  But now is a great time to work on or
see what will be coming next in Fedora 18 :)

El Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:17:02 -0500
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> Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Beta
> release of Beefy Miracle! Flying 'round the world at the speed of the 
> intertubes, delivering progress, mustard, and freedom to the masses.
> 
> We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release of 
> Fedora 17.  Want to get a taste of the future?  Download it now:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
> 
> == What is the Beta Release? ==
> 
> The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17.  Only 
> critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general 
> release of Fedora 17 in May. We invite you to join us in making
> Fedora 17 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your
> valuable feedback.
> 
> Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may
> still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is
> found at the Common F17 bugs page, seen here:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
> 
> == Features ==
> 
> This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and 
> under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the
> advancing state of free software.  Here are just a few of the new
> features:
> 
> On the desktop: GNOME 3.4 introduces many user experience
> improvements, including new search capabilities in the activities
> overview, improved themes, and enhancements to the Documents and
> Contacts applications.  A new application, GNOME-boxes, provides easy
> access to virtual machines. Additionally, GIMP 2.8, the newest
> version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, brings new
> improvements such as single-window mode, layer groups, and on-canvas
> editing.
> 
> For developers: You never sausage a great array of development tools! 
> Fedora 17 includes a pre-release of Juno, the release of the Eclipse
> SDK expected in June 2012.  Java 7 (and OpenJDK 7) is the default
> Java runtime and Java build toolset, and GCC 4.7.x is now the primary 
> compiler in Fedora.  Other language refreshes include shipping Ruby 
> 1.9.3, the latest stable version of the Ruby language, PHP 5.4, the 
> latest PHP stack, and Erlang has also been updated to the R15 release.
> 
> Under the hood, and in the cloud: The Cluster stack in Fedora
> includes numerous and significant updates for both high availability
> and load-balancing applications.  Fedora 17 utilizes Linux kernel
> 3.3, with improved btrfs and ext4 filesystems, GMA (poulsbo) graphics
> and Broadcom wireless chipset support, and numerous other bug fixes
> and enhancements. Firewalld is now the default firewall solution in
> Fedora, providing dynamic firewall configuration capabilities.
> Finally, OpenStack, a collection of services that can be used to set
> up and run cloud compute and storage infrastructure, has been updated
> to the latest release, 2012.1 (Essex).
> 
> And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of
> all the new features in Fedora 17 is available here:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList
> 
> We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
> 
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
> 
> == Contributing to Fedora ==
> 
> For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report 
> bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release
> notes:
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org
> 
> There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help 
> translate software and content, test and give feedback on software 
> updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of 
> promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions
> of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit 
> http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
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Announcing the release of Fedora 18 Beta!

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Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Beta
release of Beefy Miracle! Flying 'round the world at the speed of the 
intertubes, delivering progress, mustard, and freedom to the masses.

We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release of 
Fedora 17.  Want to get a taste of the future?  Download it now:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

== What is the Beta Release? ==

The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17.  Only 
critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general 
release of Fedora 17 in May. We invite you to join us in making Fedora 
17 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable 
feedback.

Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may still 
be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at
the Common F17 bugs page, seen here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs

== Features ==

This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and 
under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing 
state of free software.  Here are just a few of the new features:

On the desktop: GNOME 3.4 introduces many user experience improvements, 
including new search capabilities in the activities overview, improved 
themes, and enhancements to the Documents and Contacts applications.  A 
new application, GNOME-boxes, provides easy access to virtual
machines. Additionally, GIMP 2.8, the newest version of the GNU Image
Manipulation Program, brings new improvements such as single-window
mode, layer groups, and on-canvas editing.

For developers: You never sausage a great array of development tools! 
Fedora 17 includes a pre-release of Juno, the release of the Eclipse
SDK expected in June 2012.  Java 7 (and OpenJDK 7) is the default Java 
runtime and Java build toolset, and GCC 4.7.x is now the primary 
compiler in Fedora.  Other language refreshes include shipping Ruby 
1.9.3, the latest stable version of the Ruby language, PHP 5.4, the 
latest PHP stack, and Erlang has also been updated to the R15 release.

Under the hood, and in the cloud: The Cluster stack in Fedora includes 
numerous and significant updates for both high availability and 
load-balancing applications.  Fedora 17 utilizes Linux kernel 3.3, with 
improved btrfs and ext4 filesystems, GMA (poulsbo) graphics and
Broadcom wireless chipset support, and numerous other bug fixes and
enhancements. Firewalld is now the default firewall solution in Fedora,
providing dynamic firewall configuration capabilities.  Finally,
OpenStack, a collection of services that can be used to set up and run
cloud compute and storage infrastructure, has been updated to the
latest release, 2012.1 (Essex).

And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all 
the new features in Fedora 17 is available here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList

We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/

== Contributing to Fedora ==

For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report 
bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release
notes:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org

There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help 
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software 
updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of 
promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions
of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit 
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Re: Fedora 17 Mass branching

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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:45:32 -0600
Dennis Gilmore  wrote:

> We have completed mass branching for Fedora 17 you now need make sure
> that you build things for Fedora 17 from the f17 branch, master is now
> for Fedora 18. 
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/Schedule We have the Alpha
> Change Freeze On Feb 14th this means that we will land f17-candidate
> builds to land in f17 until then. Bodhi updates will be enabled on
> February 14.

Bodhi is now in use, so all F17 updates need to go through the bodhi
updates process now.

 
> Any feature that is invasive and intended for Fedora 18 should be
> landing ASAP now. 

Just an additional Reminder Fedora 18 is open for development and new
features, get in early for Fedora 18 

Releng 
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Fedora 17 Mass branching

[Dennis Gilmore]

We have completed mass branching for Fedora 17 you now need make sure
that you build things for Fedora 17 from the f17 branch, master is now
for Fedora 18. 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/Schedule We have the Alpha
Change Freeze On Feb 14th this means that we will land f17-candidate
builds to land in f17 until then. Bodhi updates will be enabled on
February 14.

Feature Freeze has passed and all features need to be testable for TC2.

Any feature that is invasive and intended for Fedora 18 should be
landing ASAP now. 

Releng

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Re: Rebuild for GCC-4.7

[Dennis Gilmore]

El Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:27:45 -0600
Dennis Gilmore  escribió:
> starting immediatly there is going to be a mass rebuild of rawhide
> for gcc-4.7 that landed yesterday.
> 
> as approved by FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/739)
> packagers will have just over a week, until Thursday Jan 12 to build
> packages themselves. After that date releng will kick off an automated
> mass rebuild of everything else.
> 
> So please get building as Fedora 17 branching is less than 5 weeks
> away. we need all built by then
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Releng

The Bulk of the mass rebuild is done and will shortly be tagged into
f17 http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f17-failures.html is a list of the
packages that failed to build.  im working on double checking that we
attempted everything.

One thing that became clear during the mass rebuild is that people are
not following the proper procedure to retire packages
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life
lists the current process.  I have some ideas on how to streamline
everything and will soon be taking steps to make the process simpler so
please keep an eye out. until then please do follow the procedure fully.

Dennis
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Rebuild for GCC-4.7

[Dennis Gilmore]

starting immediatly there is going to be a mass rebuild of rawhide for gcc-4.7 
that landed yesterday.

as approved by FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/739)
packagers will have just over a week, until Thursday Jan 12 to build
packages themselves. After that date releng will kick off an automated
mass rebuild of everything else.

So please get building as Fedora 17 branching is less than 5 weeks
away. we need all built by then

Thanks

Releng
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Fedora 14 End of Life

[Dennis Gilmore]

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As of 09 December 2011, Fedora 14 has reached its end of life for
updates and support. No further updates, including security updates,
will be available for Fedora 14. A previous reminder was sent on
November 8th [0].

Fedora 15 will continue to receive updates until approximately one
month after the release of Fedora 17.  The maintenance schedule of
Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki [1].  The
Fedora Project wiki also contains instructions [2] on how to upgrade
from a previous release of Fedora to a version receiving updates.

Dennis 

[0] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003010.html
[1] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedule
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades
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last stable push for f16 GA

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Hi all, 

on Monday October 24 we will be doing the last push to stable, after
that the only things that will get pushed to stable before GA will be
things that have been accepted as release blockers.

Thanks

Release Engineering
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Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

[Dennis Gilmore]

Mark your calendars, and get ready to go exploring: The release of
Fedora 16, codenamed "Verne," is scheduled for release in early
November. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating
system that continues to bring everyone fresh, innovative features
with each release, delighting users worldwide every six months.

We are proud to announce the availability of the Beta release of Fedora 16.

Come see why we love Fedora so much. We are betting you will, too.
Download it now:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF16b

== What is the Beta Release? ==

The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 16. Only
critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general
release of Fedora 16 in early November. We invite you to join us in
making Fedora 16 a solid release by downloading, testing, and
providing your valuable feedback.

Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may
still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is
found at the Common F16 bugs page, seen here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs

== Features ==

This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and
under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the
advancing state of free software. Examples include:

* System Boot. Fedora 16 introduces GRUB2, the long-awaited
next-generation boot-loader for Linux. GRUB2 automatically recognizes
other operating systems, supports LVM2 and LUKS partitions, and is
more customizable than the previous version. In this release, only x86
systems with a BIOS uses GRUB2 by default. Work is ongoing for making
GRUB2 the default for other architectures and systems.

* Services Management. Fedora 15 introduced the Systemd services
management program. This release features better integration of
Systemd via conversion to native systemd services from legacy init
scripts in many software components -- for desktop users, this means
faster boot times; for system administrators it means more powerful
management of services.

* Desktop Updates. The two major desktop environments have been
updated to the latest releases: KDE Software Compilation 4.7 and GNOME
3.1 development release.

* SELinux Enhancements. SELinux policy package now includes a
pre-built policy that will only rebuild policy if any customizations
have been made. A sample test run shows 4 times speedup on installing
the package from 48 Seconds to 12 Seconds and max memory usage from
38M to 6M. In addition to that, SELinux file name transition allows
better policy management. For instance, policy writers can take
advantage of this and write a policy rule that states, if a SELinux
unconfined process creates a file named resolv.conf in a directory
labelled etc_t, the file should get labeled appropriately. This
results is less chances of mislabeled files. Also, from this release
onwards, selinuxfs is mounted at /sys/fs/selinux instead of in
/selinux. All the affected components including anaconda, dracut,
livecd-tools and policycoreutils have been modified to work with this
change.

* System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as
authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has moved boundary between
system and user accounts from 500 to 1000 to match conventions
followed by several other Linux distributions. Upgrading from a
existing release will not be affected by this change and you can use
kickstart to override this change during installation if necessary.

* HAL Removal. HAL, a hardware abstraction layer which has been a
deprecated component for several releases, has been completely removed
from all Fedora spins and DVD. Software components using HAL have
moved over to using udisks and upower as well as libudev for device
discovery. This results in faster system bootup and faster startup for
applications depending on device discovery.

* Cloud Updates. Fedora now includes a number of new and improved
features to support cloud computing, including HekaFS, a "cloud ready"
version of GlusterFS, including additional auth*/crypto/multi-tenancy;
pacemaker-cloud, application service high availability in a cloud
environment; and IaaS implementations such as Aeolus and OpenStack.

* Virtualization. Once again Fedora raises the bar on
virtualization support, including expanded virtual network support, an
improved Spice for managing virtual machines, restored Xen support, a
new virtual machine lock manager, and improved ability to browse guest
file systems.

* Developer Improvements. Developers get many goodies with Verne,
including updated Ada, Haskell and Perl environments, a new Python
plugin for GCC and a number of new and improved APIs.

And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all
the new features in Fedora 16 is available here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList

We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nigh

Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Alpha!!

[Dennis Gilmore]

The Fedora 16 "Verne" Alpha release is available! This release offers a 
preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently 
under development. Catch a glimpse of the future:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

== What is the Alpha release? ==

The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 16 in a 
form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA 
team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we 
make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and 
bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The 
final release of Fedora 16 is due in early November.

We need your help to make Fedora 16 the best release yet, so please take 
a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure 
the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, 
please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the 
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make 
Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the 
announcement for more information on how to help.)
Features

This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and 
under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing 
state of free software. Examples include:

 * System Boot. Fedora 16 introduces GRUB2, the long-awaited 
next-generation boot-loader for Linux. GRUB2 automatically recognizes 
other operating systems, supports LVM2 and LUKS partitions, and is more 
customizable than the previous version. In this release, only x86 
systems with a BIOS uses GRUB2 by default. Work is ongoing for making 
GRUB2 the default for other architectures and systems.

 * Services Management. Fedora 15 introduced the Systemd services 
management program. This release features better integration of Systemd 
via conversion to native systemd services from legacy init scripts in 
many software components -- for desktop users, this means faster boot 
times; for system administrators it means more powerful management of 
services.

 * Desktop Updates. The two major desktop environments have been 
updated to the latest releases: KDE Software Compilation 4.7 and GNOME 
3.1 development release.

 * SELinux Enhancements. SELinux policy package now includes a 
pre-built policy that will only rebuild policy if any customizations 
have been made. A sample test run shows 4 times speedup on installing 
the package from 48 Seconds to 12 Seconds and max memory usage from 38M 
to 6M. In addition to that, SELinux file name transition allows better 
policy management. For instance, policy writers can take advantage of 
this and write a policy rule that states, if a SELinux unconfined 
process creates a file named resolv.conf in a directory labelled etc_t, 
the file should get labeled appropriately. This results is less chances 
of mislabeled files. Also, from this release onwards, selinuxfs is 
mounted at /sys/fs/selinux instead of in /selinux. All the affected 
components including anaconda, dracut, livecd-tools and policycoreutils 
have been modified to work with this change.

 * System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as 
authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has moved boundary between 
system and user accounts from 500 to 1000 to match conventions followed 
by several other Linux distributions. Upgrading from a existing release 
will not be affected by this change and you can use kickstart to 
override this change during installation if necessary.

 * Chrony NTP. Fedora has switched over to using Chrony as the 
default NTP client. There are several advantages including smaller 
memory footprint (1.3MB vs 6MB resident size), no unnecessary process 
wakeups which results in better power savings. better timekeeping on 
systems not running 24/7 or without permanent internet connection or 
with low quality/unstable clocks (virtual machines). Once the clock is 
synchronized, applications are not upset by backward time jumps. 
system-config-date and GNOME settings daemon has been modified to use 
Chrony as well.

 * HAL Removal. HAL, a hardware abstraction layer which has been a 
deprecated component for several releases, has been completely removed 
from all Fedora spins and DVD. Software components using HAL have moved 
over to using udisks and upower as well as libudev for device discovery. 
This results in faster system bootup and faster startup for applications 
depending on device discovery.

 * Cloud Updates. Fedora now includes a number of new and improved 
features to support cloud computing, including a "cloud ready" version 
of GlusterFS, including additional auth*/crypto/multi-tenancy; 
pacemaker-cloud, application service high availability in a cloud 
environment; Condor Cloud, an IaaS cloud implementation using Condor and 
the Deltacloud API, and Aeolus.

 * Virtualization. Once again Fedora raises the bar on 
v

Fedora 15 Final change freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

A heads up that change freeze for the Fedora 15 is Monday May 9th.  after this 
point only accepted blocker bugs will be pulled in.  Please limit your changes 
to try and avoid unintended breakages.


thanks

Dennis


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Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

[Dennis Gilmore]

The clock is ticking. The days are counting down. The release of 
Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock," is scheduled for release in late 
May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating 
system that continues to deliver innovative features to users 
worldwide, with a new release every six months.

We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release 
of Fedora 15.

"I beta one American dollar that you will love this release!"

Come see why we love Fedora so much. We are betting you will, 
too. Download it now: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?wkanF15b

== What is the Beta Release? ==

The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 15. Only 
critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general 
release of Fedora 15 in May. We invite you to join us in making 
Fedora 15 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing 
your valuable feedback.

Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may still 
be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about can be seen on
the Common F15 bugs page, at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs.

If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets 
fixed before release by reporting your discovery at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Thank you! 

== Features ==

Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to:
* Gnome Shell and the Gnome 3 desktop. Gnome 3 is the next major 
  version of the Gnome desktop. After many years of a largely 
  unchanged Gnome 2.x experience, GNOME 3 brings a fresh look 
  and feel with GNOME Shell.
* LibreOffice Productivity Suite. LibreOffice is a fork of 
  OpenOffice, with the support of the OpenOffice.org community. 
  All of the applications you know and love are still there, 
  including apps for spreadsheets, document creation, and presentations.
* Desktop environments a-plenty. The Xfce and LXDE spins have 
  been updated, and the Fedora Spins SIG has other offerings 
  tailored to a wide variety of user needs. 

Sysadmins will love features such as:
* Appliance building. BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual 
  machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files 
  for various virtual platforms, and is great for building 
  appliances for use in a Cloud environment.
* Dynamic Firewall. The dynamic firewall mode aims to make it 
  possible to change firewall settings without the need to restart 
  the firewall and to make persistent connections possible. 

Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including:
* Updates to popular languages. Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and 
  OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15.
* Project tooling. Maven 3 is a Java project management, project 
  comprehension, and build system tool.
* Compiling and debugging. GDB gets an update to 7.3, and GCC 
  4.6 is included. (Fedora 15 has also been rebuilt using GCC 4.6!) 

And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of 
all the new features in Fedora 15 is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList

We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ 

== Contributing ==

For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report 
bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release 
notes at http://docs.fedoraproject.org.

There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help 
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software 
updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional 
activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora 
users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!


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Beta change freeze

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All a heads up that change freeze for the Fedora 15 Beta is Tuesday April 
5th.  after this point only accepted blocker bugs will be pulled in.  Please 
limit your changes to try and avoid unintended breakages.


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Mass Rebuild and Mass branching status update

[Dennis Gilmore]

The first pass though the mass rebuild has been completed

failures can be found at http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/failed.html and the 
list of all things not built yet at http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/rebuild.html  
there is ~400 packages that rpm-4.9.0 failed to parse the spec files.

the couple ive looked at so far are due to unsupported macro use.


We have also mass branched everything.  you will now need to use bodhi to push 
updates in.

Thanks for your paitence, please bring up any issues that you see.

Dennis


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Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi all,

for gcc-4.6, xz compression changes, and to a lesser extent we will be doing a 
mass rebuild starting monday. it will be done in a side tag with a lower than 
normal priority so that you can still submit builds and not have to wait for 
the mass rebuild to finish. we will then tag into  rawhide the builds after 
unless you do a build in the meantime


Please note that mass branching will be occuring soon after the mass rebuild 
as the Alpha freeze is 2011-02-15


Thanks

Dennis and the rest of rel eng


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Outage: Koji upgrade/migration - 2010-07-09 22:00 UTC

[Dennis Gilmore]

There will be an outage starting at 2010-07-09 22:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 48 hours.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:

date -d '2010-07-09 22:00 UTC'

Reason for outage: 
Migrating the underling storage used by koji.  as well as upgrading to koji 
1.4.0

Affected Services:
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/



Unaffected Services:

BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
CVS / Source Control
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Ticket Link:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2266

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track the status of this outage.


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CVS branches for F-11 closed

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

Since Fedora 13 was released today new CVS branches for F-11 will not be
allowed.  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/EOL lists 
the policy in effect this means that F-11 is now in a maintenance only cycle,  
with EOL fast approaching,  the  EOL date was set to June 25th by FESCo ( 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2010-05-25/fesco.2010-05-25-19.00.html ).

Dennis


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