Election Results: Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo

2014-02-11 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings, all: The elections for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) have concluded, and the results are shown below. In addition to the election results, there were also 2 candidates for 2 open seats on the Fedora Project B

Announcing the release of Fedora 20.

2013-12-17 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings! We can say with great certainty the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 20 ("Heisenbug"), which coincides with the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Fedora Project. Download this leading-edge, free and open source operating system now: http://fedorapro

Announcing the release of Fedora 19!

2013-07-02 Thread Robyn Bergeron
nning process and subject to change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Schedule *** Contact information *** If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press Enjoy! -Robyn Bergeron __

Election Season Begins: Fedora Board, FESCo, FAmSCo, and Fedora 20 naming election process

2013-05-14 Thread Robyn Bergeron
It is time again to begin Fedora's election season. This announcement contains information regarding the Fedora 20 Naming Election, as well as the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) elections. ** Fedora 20 Naming Elect

[Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 18.

2013-01-15 Thread Robyn Bergeron
l/Release_Notes/index.html == Contact information == If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press Enjoy! -Robyn Bergeron ___ test-announce mailing list test-annou...@lists.fedorapro

Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora Board seats

2012-12-09 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings! The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) have concluded, and the results are IN! and can be seen below. * * * The Fedora Board is electing 2 seats this cycle. A total of 201 ballots were ca

Fedora 19 release name voting

2012-11-08 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Voting for the release name of Fedora 19 has begun. The pool of names submitted by the community has been narrowed down to 8 possible names, one of which will become the release name for the successor to Fedora 18 ("Spherical Cow"). This vote began on November 9th, 2012, at 00:00 UTC, and wil

Fedora Board, FAmSCo, FESCo Election Season, and Fedora Board Appointment.

2012-11-06 Thread Robyn Bergeron
The nomination period for FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassador Steering Committee), FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), and the Fedora Board is now open, and will close on November 13, 2012, at 23:59:59 UTC. This election cycle will fill the following seats for a one-year period: * Fedora Board

Re: Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds

2012-10-31 Thread Robyn Bergeron
- Original Message - > From: "Mo Morsi" > To: "aeolus-devel" , "Fedora Cloud SIG" > , > "Development discussions related to Fedora" > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:22:47 AM > Subject: Deploying fedora infrastructure (koji) across clouds > > // Deploying fedora infrastructure (ko

Don't have a cow, man: Fedora 19 naming suggestions are now open. Submit your idea!

2012-10-09 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings and salutations! It is time once again to choose the name for the next release of Fedora. Suggestions for names will be accepted beginning RIGHT THIS SECOND (October 9, 2012), and ending promptly at the end of the day on October 16, 2012 (23:59:59 UTC). So mooove on over, and hel

FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders

2012-08-03 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings! (...or perhaps I should say bonjour!) I'd like to share a few reminders and announcements regarding the upcoming FUDCon in Paris, France, on October 13-15, 2012. If you are planning to attend FUDCon and need a travel subsidy to do so, the ticketing system is now open for those

Fedora Board appointment

2012-06-22 Thread Robyn Bergeron
I am very delighted to announce that John Rose (aka inode0) will be joining the Fedora Board in the final appointed slot for this cycle (seat A4). Many of you know John from his work in the Ambassadors team and his excellent election wrangling for many election cycles, as well as being a famil

Fedora Board runoff election results

2012-06-19 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Hello! The runoff election for the remaining Fedora Board seat has concluded. There was one remaining seat available. A total of 182 votes were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 364 votes (182 * 2). The results are shown below. # votes | name -

Runoff election for Board seat has begun.

2012-06-12 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings. As previously announced[1], the recent Board election resulted in a two-way tie for the third elected seat, between Nick Bebout and Robert 'Bob' Jensen. The runoff election for this remaining seat has started. Voting began today, Tuesday, June 12, at 00:00:00 UTC, and will end Wednesd

Election Results for Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo seats

2012-06-08 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings, patient friends: The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) have concluded, and the results are shown below. Apparently, we like to keep things interesting around here; the improbable situation o

Re: glusterfs rename

2012-06-05 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY > wrote: >> On 05/30/2012 02:23 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> >>> Yes, for the Fedora side of things I think gluster 3.2 is the best >>> strategy with a fedorapeople repo of 3.3 if it's c

Reminder: Voting has begun in Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo elections, ends June 7th

2012-06-04 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings! A friendly reminder that the elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) began on June 1st, 2012, at 00:00:01 UTC, and will end Thursday, June 7th, 2012 at 23:59:59 UTC. Please refer to a UTC time

Announcing Fedora 17. Relish it.

2012-05-29 Thread Robyn Bergeron
"At the heat of a thousand hot dog cookers, the seventeenth release of Fedora shall be forged by contributors the world over, and it will be known as: Beefy Miracle. The mustard shall indicate progress. For six months, participants in the Fedora Project shall freely contribute to the release o

Fedora 17 Final is declared GOLD!

2012-05-24 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the Fedora 17 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the F17 Final Release (RC4) was declared GOLD and ready for GA on May 29, 2012. Thanks to everyone who came today, and to everyone who helped get the Beefy Miracle ready for public devouring. :) Links to meeting minutes and logs follow below. Ch

Fedora 17 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting (#2), Thursday, May 24, @13:00 Eastern

2012-05-23 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting, wherein we shall determine the shipment readiness of F17 Final. Thursday, May 24, 2012 @ 17:00 UTC (13:00 EDT/10:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if

Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo elections: Town hall meeting schedule

2012-05-23 Thread Robyn Bergeron
As you have (hopefully) heard by now, elections for the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo are quickly approaching. In each election cycle, a series of town hall meetings is held to give community members and opportunity to ask candidates questions - and hear their answers - via IRC. The town h

F17 GA to slip by one week.

2012-05-17 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the Go/No-Go meeting today, it was decided to slip the GA of Fedora 17 by one week[1]. There are currently 4 remaining release blockers[2], necessitating the creation of RC2. Minutes follow below. GA for F17 is now scheduled for 2012-05-29. Adjustments to the schedule[3] and wiki will be c

Fedora 17 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, May 17, @13:00 Eastern

2012-05-16 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting, wherein we shall determine the shipment readiness of F17 Final. Thursday, May 17, 2012 @ 17:00 UTC (13:00 EDT/10:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if

Fedora Elections: General information, and questionnaire opening.

2012-04-27 Thread Robyn Bergeron
GREETINGS! It is once again time for election season to begin. As noted in the elections schedule[1], the elections questionnaire is now open to populate with questions for candidates, and will close on May 8th. The elections nomination period will begin AFTER the questionnaire period has c

Fedora 17 Beta is declared GOLD.

2012-04-11 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At today's F17 Beta Go/No-Go meeting, the Fedora 17 Beta release was declared gold. F17 Beta will be released Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Thanks to everyone involved for pulling this one together and participating in the meetings, things came together well this week. :) For those interested in t

Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Round 3, Wednesday, April 11, @17:00 Eastern

2012-04-10 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting. This will be Round 3 of this meeting for the Beta release of F17. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determin

F17 Beta to slip by an additional week.

2012-04-05 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip the Beta by an additional week[1]. Minutes follow below. Though the QA team was able to get through all validation testing, it was found that preupgrade was not functioning at an acceptable level, thus becoming an additional blocker which prevents

Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Wednesday, April 4, @17:00 Eastern

2012-04-02 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting. This will be Round 2 of this meeting for the Beta release of F17. Wednesday, April 4, 2012 @21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine

F17 Beta to slip by one week.

2012-03-29 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip the Beta by one week[1]. Minutes follow below. Despite valiant efforts by many awesome people, two new blockers appeared between RC1 and RC2, for which fixes are still incoming and will require the creation of an RC3 [2]. As a result, ALL MAJOR

Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Wednesday, March 28, @17:00 Eastern

2012-03-26 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting. Will the Beefy Miracle live up to the latter half of its name? Attend this meeting and find out! :) Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Rel

It is time for another episode of: NAME THAT FEDORA RELEASE

2012-03-19 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Oh, Beefy Miracle, I have relished your name for months, but as your day for widespread consumption (release day) approaches, it is time for the community to choose the name of Fedora 18. This process begins with *you,* dear readers and contributors, as potential names are accepted for submiss

Re: Summary & minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-03-19)

2012-03-19 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 03/19/2012 06:38 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: * #830 F18 Feature: ARM as Primary Arch -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraARM (limburgher, 18:44:13) * LINK: http://fedorap

Re: when does Fedora 18 Release Naming start?

2012-03-19 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > So according to the Wiki, naming hasn't started yet, but it is also > almost over :-) > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_18 > > Naming Period: 13 March 13 through 20 March > > So when does it really start? Per th

FUDCon Kuala Lumpur travel subsidy requests are now open

2012-03-15 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings, As you may know, there is a planned APAC FUDCon in Kuala Lumpur coming up soon, May 18-20 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:KualaLumpur_2012 If you are planning to attend FUDCon Kuala Lumpur and need a travel subsidy, the ticketing system is currentl

Re: Fedora 18 feature processing?

2012-03-05 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 03/05/2012 07:54 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: Hey, I'm wondering whether there's some kind of disconnect in the feature process at the moment: In order to avoid the kind of last-minute inclusion craze that everybody hates, we decided to post

Fedora 17 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD(en mustard color)!

2012-02-22 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the F17 Alpha Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 17 Alpha release (RC4) was declared GOLD, and ready for shipment on February 28, 2012. GOLD is the color of mustard, and, as you know, mustard indicates progress. A huge thank you to everyone who made this on-time(!!!) Alpha release possible.

Fedora 17 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting, Wednesday, February 22 @ 17:00 EST

2012-02-20 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Alpha taste-testing of the Beefy Miracle, better known as Fedora 17. Wednesday, February 22, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EST/14:00 PST) "Before each public release Development,

Fedora 17 Feature Freeze is TOMORROW, February 7.

2012-02-06 Thread Robyn Bergeron
A friendly reminder as we move towards a miraculous, beefy release: * Feature freeze is tomorrow, February 7, 2012. At this point, all accepted features should be substantially complete, and testable. Additionally, if a feature is to be enabled by default, it must be so enabled at Feature Fre

Wireless Access at FUDCon Blacksburg

2012-01-06 Thread Robyn Bergeron
If you are attending FUDCon:Blacksburg next week (January 13-15), you need to request a guest internet access account in order to use the guest wireless access on the Virginia Tech campus. It is requested that you sign up for this account PRIOR to your arrival at FUDCon. Pretty please. Directi

Re: Self Introduction

2011-12-01 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 12/01/2011 02:12 AM, Schwickerath Ulrich wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Ulrich Schwickerath, I'm working at CERN for the IT division, > where I've done some rpm packaging of internally used software for > many years. I got involved in virtualization and cloud computing activities, > and have b

Re: Self Introduction

2011-12-01 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 11/30/2011 04:25 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: > Hello, > I've been creating rpm packages for Fermi Linux for over 10 years, and > Scientific Linux 8 years, but I never had time to do anything for Fedora > and EPEL. Now that I'm not with Scientific Linux, I've got the time. > I'd like to help with the

Minutes from today's town hall meeting for FESCo election candidates

2011-11-21 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Minutes and logs from today's town hall for the FESCo candidates can be seen here: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2011-11-21/fedora_townhall.2011-11-21-18.01.html Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2011-11-21/fedora_townhall.2011-11-21-18.01.log.htm

[Test-Announce] FUDCon Blacksburg subsidies announcement, and general planning update.

2011-11-21 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings everyone, A few updates on the upcoming FUDCon in Blacksburg, VA in January 2012: * We will be having our second subsidy meeting on Wednesday, November 23rd. This meeting will be for evaluating and processing any available subsidy monies for international attendees, as well as proces

[Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 16.

2011-11-08 Thread Robyn Bergeron
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne"). Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. Fedora 16 brings exciting new features for deskt

Re: Nomination period for Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo elections closes Nov. 5

2011-11-05 Thread Robyn Bergeron
ected. -Robyn - Original Message - From: "Bruno Wolff III" To: "Robyn Bergeron" Cc: t...@lists.fedoraproject.org, devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 3:29:38 PM Subject: Re: Nomination period for Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo elections closes Nov

Nomination period for Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo elections closes Nov. 5

2011-11-04 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings and salutations, It is time for yet another edition of "Robyn's Fedora Public Service Announcements" :) I'd like to give you a friendly reminder that the nomination period for the upcoming Fedora elections will be closing promptly TOMORROW, Saturday, November 5, 2011, at 23:59:59

[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Final Release Declared GOLD!

2011-11-03 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the Fedora 16 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 16 Final Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on November 8, 2011. And to clarify: It is a nice, golden, almost... mustard-like color. :) Thank you to EVERYONE for your sleepless nights, endless testing, prompt bug-fixing, and

[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting is WEDNESDAY, not TODAY, sorry!

2011-11-01 Thread Robyn Bergeron
See below; everything still applies, except: Meeting is Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT). I'm just, you know, making sure y'all are paying attention. AdamW is the winner today! :D -Robyn On 11/01/2011 05:02 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: &g

[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, TUESDAY, November 1, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)

2011-11-01 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important meeting, Tuesday, November 1, 2011, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT). "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting

F16 Final Change Deadline is Monday, Oct. 24.

2011-10-22 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings, This is your friendly reminder that the Final Change Deadline for F16 is Monday, October 24, 2011. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_deadlines "After the change deadlines for the Final release no more updates are made to the branched development repository (e.g. /pub/fedora/linux

Subsidy requests for FUDCon Blacksburg are now OOOOOPEN!

2011-10-13 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings, FUDCon friends, near and far: As you are probably aware, the 2012 North American FUDCon will be held in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the campus of Virginia Tech. If you are planning on attending, it's never too early to pre-register, and to start thinking about your travel plans. FUDCon

[Test-Announce] F16 Beta Go/No Go Meeting, Round 2.5, + report-out on yesterday's meeting.

2011-09-29 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for the second half of this important meeting. Thanks to the tireless* efforts of our outstanding QA folks, testing on RC4, created late yesterday, has been ongoing all night long. We'll be having the second-and-a-half round of our F16 Beta Go/No-

[Test-Announce] F16 Beta Go/No Go Meeting, Round 2.

2011-09-27 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, September 28, 2011 @21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is c

[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Beta to slip by one week.

2011-09-22 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Late yesterday at the Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip the Beta release of F16 by one week [1]. Minutes follow below. There are numerous unresolved blockers at this time [2], resulting in the inability to compose a viable release candidate. As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their de

[Test-Announce] F16 Beta Go/No-Go meeting

2011-09-20 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, September 21, 2011 @21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is c

Fedora 16 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD!

2011-08-17 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the F16 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, the Fedora 16 Alpha release was declared GOLD. F16 Alpha will be released Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Thanks to all of those who helped out to make this happen, as always -- we wouldn't be here without everyone's assistance and hard work. Fo

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting #2, Wednesday, August 17 @ 17:00 EDT

2011-08-17 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 08/17/2011 07:23 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > Sorry for belated notice, though I've talked to almost everyone > involved about the timing - have been travelling. > > Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. > > Wednesday, August 17, 2011 @

[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting #2, Wednesday, August 17 @ 17:00 EDT

2011-08-17 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Sorry for belated notice, though I've talked to almost everyone involved about the timing - have been travelling. Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, August 17, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and R

[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Alpha to slip by one week.

2011-08-10 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Today at the Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip the Alpha by one week[1]. Minutes follow below. There are numerous unresolved blocker bugs at this time[2], requiring the creation of an RC4 once these blockers are resolved. As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks, will

Re: Btrfs status for F16

2011-08-08 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 08/08/2011 05:44 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: > Hello, > > In order to hopefully (and I understand this is a unrealistically big > hope) stem the amount of hostile comments and random remarks about > Btrfs not being ready for F16 that I get with _every_ bz that get's > filed against it, let me announc

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting, Wednesday, August 10 @ 17:00 EDT

2011-08-08 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 08/08/2011 08:15 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. > > Wednesday, August 10, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) My mistake - 21:00 UTC. 17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT still applies

[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting, Wednesday, August 10 @ 17:00 EDT

2011-08-08 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, August 10, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is calle

Re: New feature for Fedora 16: new mkdumprd

2011-07-14 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 07/14/2011 03:35 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Américo Wang > wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 03:50:07PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: >> Would any of you kindly help to review my proposed feature >> f

Fedora 16 Schedule Reminders - Feature Submission and Feature Freeze.

2011-07-11 Thread Robyn Bergeron
A few friendly reminders: * The Feature Submission deadline for Fedora 16 is *tomorrow*, July 12. The current process for submitting a feature for Fedora 16 can be seen here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy * Feature Freeze comes quickly after the Feature Submission deadline, on

Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town hall is today.

2011-05-31 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings! As previously announced, the town hall for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) is today, May 31, 2011. The town hall will be taking place at 1800 UTC (2pm US-Eastern). For information on how to participate, please see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join

Fedora 15 Final Release is declared GOLD!

2011-05-17 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the Fedora 15 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 15 Final Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on May 24, 2011. Please note that the Fedora 15 Release Wide Readiness Meeting will take place on Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-m

[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Final Release is declared GOLD!

2011-05-17 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the Fedora 15 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 15 Final Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on May 24, 2011. Please note that the Fedora 15 Release Wide Readiness Meeting will take place on Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-m

Fedora 15 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, TUESDAY, May 17, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)

2011-05-16 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important meeting, Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 US-Eastern, 14:00 US-Pacific). "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This

Fedora 15 Final Change Deadline, and Outstanding Blocker Bugs

2011-05-10 Thread Robyn Bergeron
This is your friendly reminder that we have reached the Final Change Deadline for Fedora 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_deadlines "After the change deadlines for the Final release no more updates are made to the branched development repository (e.g. /pub/fedora/linux/development/15).

Fedora 15 Beta is hereby declared GOLD!

2011-04-13 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the Fedora 15 Beta Go/No-Go meeting today, the F15 Beta was declared GOLD and ready for release on April 19, 2011. Thanks to everyone, as always, for their hard work and participation in getting this out the door. :) Meeting minutes are below. -Robyn ===

[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC

2011-04-11 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is call

Re: Updates stats help wanted

2011-04-06 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On 04/06/2011 11:05 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > A bit of history: When The Board came up with their updates vision > statement, it included: > > "Project members should be able to transparently measure or monitor a > new updates process to objectively measure its effectiveness, and > de

[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha declared GOLD!

2011-03-02 Thread Robyn Bergeron
At the F15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, the Fedora 15 Alpha release was declared GOLD. Thanks to all of those who helped out to make this happen! Meeting notes can be found here: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-02/fedora_15_alpha_gono-go_meeting.20

[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC

2011-03-02 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EST/14:00 PST) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called

Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC

2011-03-02 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EST/14:00 PST) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called

Fedora 15 Alpha to slip by one week

2011-02-23 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Today at the Go/No-Go meeting[1] we decided to slip the Alpha by one week. The slip is due to a blocker bug affecting a number of non-US keyboard layouts, including German and French[2], which does not currently have a fix or a reasonable workaround. All other blocker bugs are currently in VER

Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC

2011-02-21 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EST/14:00 PST) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is ca

Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information

2010-11-22 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) began at UTC on 20th November 2010, and are scheduled to run until 23:59 UTC on 28th November 2010. (Please refer to a UTC time zone converter,

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-12 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking that > Fedora 15 may be much more exciting. ;) > > Things I know of so far: > > * systemd > * gnome3 / gnome-shell default > * removing a bunch of suid stuff in fav

Want to help pick the F14 Release Slogan?

2010-08-11 Thread Robyn Bergeron
We need a slogan for the F14 release. A release slogan is a short call-to-action that fits the artwork theme from Design, found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#Themes. (F13's slogan was "Rock it.") If you are interested in suggesting ideas for the release slogan, please take a

FESCo and Fedora Project Board Elections - Town Hall Schedule - Starting tomorrow!

2010-05-13 Thread Robyn Bergeron
As many of you know, the FESCo and Board elections are right around the corner. In each election cycle, a series of town hall meetings is conducted to give the community an opportunity to ask the candidates questions - and hear their answers - on IRC. The town halls for each election are held twi

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jon Masters wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:30 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: >> >>> Now, there's a reasonable argument that says that Fedora users without >>> FAS accounts didn't vote for FESCo, so it's

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-10 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:30 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > >> Now, there's a reasonable argument that says that Fedora users without >> FAS accounts didn't vote for FESCo, so it's still legitimate to ask >> *those* users what they think.  The impos

F13 Release Slogan - Rock it.

2010-03-08 Thread Robyn Bergeron
For the 13th Release of Fedora, "Goddard," the Fedora Marketing team ran an open, community based process of slogan submissions, found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP. That process included guidelines for producing great slogans, and as a result of our call, we received a large

Call for F13 release slogan suggestions

2010-02-24 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Greetings Friends, We need a slogan for the F13 release. It will be chosen one week from now, on 3/2. A release slogan is a short call-to-action that fits the artwork theme from Design, found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_release_slogan#Themes. (F12's slogan was "Unite.") If you are inte

Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points

2010-02-19 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Talking points are key highlights of the new release. They should be compelling, but they will not necessarily be comprehensive. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins.  For the Fedora 13 cycle, we will al

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, inode0 wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: >> And to answer your question about what "isnt' broken".  I suggest you look >> at our http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics page.  We've only seen >> growth in 2 of our last 6 releases.  Thin

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Adam Miller wrote: > Hello all, >    I wanted to bring a few things up and I wanted to bring them up on > de...@lists.fp.o because this is where most people spend their time. > >    First off: "Does letting thousands of contributors do what they > want have a negati