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Fedora Weekly News Issue 142
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 142 for the week ending September 7,
2008.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue142
This week in Announcements we alert you to the "Fedora 10 Beta Freeze
Coming Soon" and the new "FESCo Issue Tracking". In PlanetFedora "Tech
Tidbits" contains some juicy morsels on evaluating package sizes and
Haskell. In Developments we examine the process of "Getting Back On Our
Feet" after the intrusions. SecurityAnnouncements finally has some
content. Artwork covers "Working on a Sound Theme" and the acceptance of
the "Echo Icon Theme as a Fedora 10 Feature"
Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events and
activities in the Fedora community. If you are interested in
contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1].
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
=Announcements=
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
Echo Monthly News, Issue 1
Martin Sourada announced[0] the availability of the premiere issue of
"Echo Monthly News[1]." Said Martin, "Since it's our first release it is
not perfect and therefore we will appreciate any feedback, suggestions
for improvement, etc. at the fedora-art-list and #fedora-art at
irc.freenode.net."
[0]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg1.html
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/MonthlyNews/Issue1
Fedora 10 Beta Freeze Coming Soon
Jesse Keating discussed[2] the Fedora 10 Beta schedule. "The new freeze
date is Sept. 9, which is in 7 days. This is a friendly reminder that
the freeze is coming up, and coming up quickly. I realize that rawhide
has been less than great lately, and we're working quite hard to fix the
issues."
[2]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-September/msg0.html
Fedora 8 and 9 Updates Status
Jesse Keating wrote[3] about the status of updates on Fedora 8 and
Fedora 9. "We have done a successful compose of all the existing and as
of yesterday pending updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9, all signed with
our new keys. These updates will soon hit mirrors in a new set of
directory locations. What we don't have quite yet is the updated
fedora-release package in the old updates location that will get you the
new keys and the new repo locations. The last mile testing of this
update requires that new updates be live on the mirrors."
For the full announcement, follow the link below.
[3]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg2.html
FESCo Issue Tracking
Kevin Fenzi announced[4] the new FESCo issue-tracking tool. "In the
past, interested parties could bring matters to the attention of FESCo
in several ways: Mailing the chair, following up to the schedule posting
on the devel list asking for a new topic to be added, or attending
meetings on irc and bringing up the topic at the end of the meeting in
the Open Discussion phase.
While these methods work well for issues that simply need a bit of
discussion and a decision, longer term issues that should be tracked and
discussed further sometimes are forgotten."
[4]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg3.html
=Planet Fedora=
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
http://planet.fedoraproject.org
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
Cambridge
John Poelstra wrote[0] about the revised Fedora 10 schedule, which as
been moved to account for the infrastructure problems that we faced a
few weeks ago. "Last week the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee
(FESCo) ratified the updated schedule proposed by the Release
Engineering team. This resulted in feature freeze for Fedora moving to
2008-09-09 and GA to 2008-11-18. This three week change to the schedule
was to accommodate the recent infrastructure outages."
[0] http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/fedora-10-schedule-update/
Another Fedora Test Day is in the books, and James Laska wrote[1] about
it on his blog. "There was a really strong developer turn out for this
Test Day. In addition to David Huff, the appliance-tools developer, some
of the oVirt team showed up to help walk through oVirt's use of
appliance-tools. This was tremendously helpful to see how
appliance-tools can be used by other projects. Thanks to Alan Pevec,
Bryan Kearney and Darryl Pierce from the oVirt team for joining the
event. Having such a tight feedback loop with the developers during Test
Days has been very helpful, I hope we can continue with that format."
[1] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/1444.html
=Artwork=
Nicu Buculei posted[2] the latest iterations of some of the potential
Fedora 10 artwork themes. "The second round
