Changes in Fedora Release Engineering

2018-03-16 Thread 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 b

Mass Rebuild for Fedora 28

2018-02-12 Thread 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

Mass rebuilds update

2017-08-07 Thread 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 cl

Alternative Arch update

2017-04-28 Thread 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

Re: announcing arch excludes mailing list

2017-01-10 Thread 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 t

announcing arch excludes mailing list

2017-01-10 Thread 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 tr

Packagers - Flag day 2016 Important changes

2016-12-11 Thread 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-

upcoming build and release developer flag day December 12 2016

2016-11-19 Thread 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 looka

Re: ppc64 and ppc64le builds coming to rawhide

2016-10-29 Thread 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

ppc64 and ppc64le builds coming to rawhide

2016-10-28 Thread 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 som

Re: comiing to koji aarch64

2016-09-10 Thread 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 a

comiing to koji aarch64

2016-09-10 Thread 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

Announcing the release of Fedora 25 Alpha!

2016-09-02 Thread 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/

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

2016-06-22 Thread 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

Fedora 24 Final Freeze (2016-05-31)

2016-05-27 Thread 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

Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta!

2016-05-10 Thread 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/p

Re: Fedora 24 Beta Freeze

2016-04-19 Thread 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 exce

Fedora 24 Beta Freeze

2016-04-19 Thread 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 re

weakdeps and the buildroot

2016-04-07 Thread 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

Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Alpha!

2016-03-29 Thread 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 Fe

Fedora 24 Alpha Freeze

2016-03-08 Thread 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 mar

Re: Fedora 24 Mass Rebuild

2016-02-05 Thread 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 > > w

Fedora 24 Mass Rebuild

2016-02-03 Thread 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 m

F24 side tag deadline

2016-01-18 Thread 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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ devel-a

Fedora 23 Final Freeze

2015-10-13 Thread 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 rema

rawhide buildroot creation changes

2015-10-09 Thread 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

Announcing the release of Fedora 23 Beta!

2015-09-22 Thread 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

Fedora 23 Beta Freeze

2015-09-13 Thread 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 wil

Announcing the release of Fedora 23 Alpha!

2015-08-11 Thread 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:

Fedora 23 Alpha Freeze

2015-07-29 Thread 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 mar

Fedora 23 Mass Branching

2015-07-14 Thread 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 the

Fedora 20 End Of Life

2015-06-23 Thread 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 t

Re: Fedora 23 mass rebuild

2015-06-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-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 t

Fedora 23 mass rebuild

2015-06-16 Thread 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 s

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

2015-05-27 Thread 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

Fedora 22 Final Freeze

2015-05-12 Thread 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 remai

Announcing the release of Fedora 22 Beta!

2015-04-21 Thread 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/prerele

Fedora 22 Beta Freeze

2015-04-02 Thread 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 wil

Fedora 22 Alpha Freeze

2015-02-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 r

Re: All packagers to be added to the new notifications system

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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-

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

2014-12-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 pa

Fedora 21 Final Change Freeze

2014-11-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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] sta

Announcing the release of Fedora 21 Beta!

2014-11-04 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 Be

Nominations for Engineering representative to the Fedora Council

2014-10-15 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 long

Fedora 21 Beta Change Freeze

2014-10-13 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: F21 Alpha Change Freeze

2014-08-27 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:47:02 -0500 Dennis Gilmore wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > As the Fedora 21 schedule[1] states the Alpha change freeze is upon > us and we have a confidence in d

F21 Alpha Change Freeze

2014-08-26 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Special mass rebuild

2014-08-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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.

Fedora 21 Mass Branching

2014-07-08 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 hav

Re: Fedora 21 Mass rebuild update

2014-06-08 Thread Dennis Gilmore
; 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 Denn

Fedora 21 Mass rebuild update

2014-06-07 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Mass Rebuild for Fedora 21

2014-05-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 May 2014 13:20:24 -0500 Dennis Gilmore wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > > It was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5877 > that we do a mass rebuild for

Mass Rebuild for Fedora 21

2014-05-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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/J

EPEL 7 Development

2014-01-11 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 a

Reminder: Fedora 18 end of life on 2014-01-14

2013-12-18 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 p

nightly compose changes

2013-11-16 Thread 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

Rawhide and branched nightly compose changes

2013-11-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Announcing the release of Fedora 20 Beta!

2013-11-12 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 mile

Fedora 20 Beta Change Freeze

2013-10-15 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Reminder on how to EOL a package

2013-09-16 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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_

Fedora 20 Alpha Change freeze

2013-09-03 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 exce

Fedora 20 Mass Branching

2013-08-20 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 hav

Re: mass rebuild update

2013-08-04 Thread Dennis Gilmore
: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

mass rebuild update

2013-08-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- 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. Pleas

Reminder: Fedora 17 end of life on 2013-07-30

2013-07-03 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 p

Pending Fedora 19 Change Freeze - 2013-06-18

2013-06-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 Fedor

Fedora 19 Beta Change Freeze

2013-05-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Announcing the release of Fedora 19 Alpha!

2013-04-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 Releas

Fedora 19 Alpha Change freeze

2013-04-01 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 exce

f19 mass branching

2013-03-12 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 mast

Re: Mass Rebuild for Fedora 19

2013-02-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Fri, 8 Feb 2013 03:40:09 -0600 Dennis Gilmore escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > it was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1004 that > we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 19 for > http:/

Mass Rebuild for Fedora 19

2013-02-08 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

ARM arches in F19 and forward.

2013-01-30 Thread 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/w

f18 mass branching

2012-08-08 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 b

Mass rebuild cleanup

2012-08-03 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 to

Mass rebuild for Fedora 18

2012-07-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 w

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

2012-06-01 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 p

Fedora 17 Change Freeze

2012-05-01 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 befor

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 17 Beta!

2012-04-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 Dennis Gilmore escribió

Announcing the release of Fedora 18 Beta!

2012-04-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Fedora 17 Mass branching

2012-02-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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://fe

Fedora 17 Mass branching

2012-02-08 Thread 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 bui

Re: Rebuild for GCC-4.7

2012-01-16 Thread 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

Rebuild for GCC-4.7

2012-01-04 Thread 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

Fedora 14 End of Life

2011-12-13 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 receiv

last stable push for f16 GA

2011-10-22 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-04 Thread 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 us

Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Alpha!!

2011-08-23 Thread 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 al

Fedora 15 Final change freeze

2011-05-05 Thread 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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

2011-04-19 Thread 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 si

Beta change freeze

2011-03-29 Thread 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. thanks Dennis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Mass Rebuild and Mass branching status update

2011-02-10 Thread 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 i

Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7

2011-02-04 Thread 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 ra

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

2010-07-08 Thread 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 use

CVS branches for F-11 closed

2010-05-25 Thread 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 25