Announcing FUDCon Tempe 2011 -- Jan. 29-31, 2011

2010-08-02 Thread Jared K. Smith
In the past, the planning and execution of FUDCon events was handled completely by a few Red Hat employees. This seemed out of alignment with the principles of Fedora, so in late January of this year, we kicked off an effort to fix that issue. We wanted to increase the effectiveness and transpare

One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule

2010-08-11 Thread Jared K. Smith
Today we held our readiness meeting for the Alpha release of Fedora 14. As you may know, this is a meeting with representatives from the Development, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams. In these meetings, we evaluate the list of blocker bugs and give a "go" or "no go" signal on the

ACTION REQUIRED: Important hanges to Fedora translation workflow

2011-03-03 Thread Jared K. Smith
Quick Summary --- The Fedora translation workflow has changed. If you are a developer of a package being translated by the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project, you must change your workflow slightly if you want translated strings to appear in your software package. Tools and assistance are available

Fedora 15 schedule to slip an additional week

2011-03-24 Thread Jared K. Smith
The Fedora 15 development cycle is well under way, and making good progress. Yesterday I met[1] with Release Engineering, QA, the Fedora Program Manager, and we decided that in order to accommodate some late-breaking changes, we're going to need to slip the Fedora 15 release schedule by a week in

Vote for your favorite Fedora 16 release name

2011-04-04 Thread Jared K. Smith
The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 16. The Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora 16 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final nine candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the succe

Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats

2011-06-10 Thread Jared K. Smith
I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for at-large seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results are as follows: FESCo There were five FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 200 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the

Fedora 17 Release Naming: Nominations are now open!

2011-09-13 Thread Jared K. Smith
It is once again time to choose the release name for the next Fedora release. Potential names will be accepted for consideration beginning September 13th (in other words, NOW) through September 10. Please submit your best ideas to the Fedora wiki at the address below: https://fedoraproject.org/w

Re: Fedora 17 Release Naming: Nominations are now open!

2011-09-13 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote: > It is once again time to choose the release name for the next Fedora > release.  Potential names will be accepted for consideration beginning > September 13th (in other words, NOW) through September 10. Sorry for the typo ther

Reminder: Fedora elections end December 5th

2011-12-02 Thread Jared K. Smith
If you haven't yet taken the time to vote in the current Fedora elections, I encourage you to take the time to vote before the voting period ends at the end of the day (UTC time) on December 5th. This election cycle has elections for open positions on the Ambassadors steering committee (FAmSCo), t

Election Results: Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo

2011-12-05 Thread Jared K. Smith
The latest round of Fedora Elections has concluded, and I am pleased to announce the results for elected seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo and FAmSCo. The results are as follows: Fedora Board --- There were two open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A total of 224 b