Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 CD Sets

2007-11-08 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new CD Spins of Fedora 8. These CD ISOs are based on the Fedora 8 DVD.iso. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via jigdo starting Thursday, November 8th, 2007. We have included CD Image sets for those in

EOL for FedoraNEWS.ORG

2007-11-09 Thread Thomas Chung
It's been 4 years since FedoraNEWS.ORG was launched on 2003-11-18. As we say Hello to Fedora 8, it's time to say Goodbye to FedoraNEWS.ORG. It's a decision I've been considering for long time to focus on current Fedora Weekly News[1] and Fedora Free Media Program[2]. As of this morning, index

Re: EOL for FedoraNEWS.ORG

2007-11-09 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Thomas Chung wrote: As of this morning, index page has been redirected to Fedora Project Wiki. Old contents are still available but no new content will be posted. It is worth noting that Fedora Weekly News is not going anywhere, just that the separate fedoranews.org site

Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 8!

2007-11-09 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
Hello! Right along with the release of Fedora 8, we're ready with the Fedora 8 version of the Unofficial Fedora FAQ! http://www.fedorafaq.org/ Contributions are welcome! Translators are loved! http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/ Keep checking in for the

Fedora Weekly News Issue 109

2007-11-12 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 109 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 109 for the week of November 5th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue109 In Announcements, we have Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf), Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 CD Sets, rpm.livna.org repositories for Fedora

[Fc6] was: Re: [Samba] [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in send_mailslot()

2007-12-10 Thread simo
Fedora 7 and 8 packages are being released but as you may know FC6 has reached EOL just recently. As I think this is an important security problem I decided to release new packages for FC6 so that people that have not yet finished their migration to newer supported Fedora releases can buy some

Fedora Weekly News Issue 113

2007-12-17 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 113 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 113 for the week of December 10th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue113 In Announcement, we have Samba Security Updates For FC6 In Planet Fedora, we have Talks with Mark: RHM Video, F8 on the PS3, Back from India:

Re: FUDCon Raleigh 2008

2007-12-22 Thread Karsten Wade
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:23 -0500, Max Spevack wrote: Friday January 11th and Sunday January 13th will be dedicated Fedora hackfest days -- if you are a coder, or have some sort of engineering/project management skill or writing ... designing ... structuring information ... leading

Fedora Unity announces Fedora 8 Re-Spin

2007-12-23 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 8. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 8 installation media and include all updates released as of December 18th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and

Fedora's way forward

2008-01-11 Thread Max Spevack
To the Fedora community: The first day of FUDCon is now complete. 78 members of our community spent the entire day working on many aspects of Fedora. It was an incredibly productive day, and we expect the rest of the weekend to be more of the same. Over 150 people will be attending FUDCon

Cast your vote for the Fedora 9 Codename!

2008-01-16 Thread Josh Boyer
We have several options for the Fedora 9 codename, and you get to help decide which we use! https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/vote.cgi is the URL to cast your vote. Log in with your Fedora Account name and password. As long as you belong to at least one group in the Fedora Account system

Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 7 Re-Spins

2008-01-24 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 7. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora 7 and all updates released as of January 18th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64 and PPC architectures via jigdo starting

Florida Linux Show in Jacksonville FL, Feb 11th 2008

2008-01-25 Thread Art Wildman
Reminder: Speakers, Exhibitors Support still needed... time is getting short! They are looking for more Vendors, EDUs Organizations that would like to setup a Booth. If you know folks in the area that would be interested in speaking or sponsoring an exhibit, please let us know asap. Perhaps

Fedora Weekly News Issue 117

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 117 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 117 for the week of January 21st, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue117 In Announcement, we have And the F9 codename winner is..., FUDCon F9 Survey available and Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 7 Re-Spins. In

Fedora 9 Alpha Jigdo

2008-02-07 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Fedora Unity announces the Fedora 9 Alpha release is now also available via Jigdo. Jigdo saves you a lot of bandwidth and time if you already have the data (maybe a local mirror or previously released media), and has been proposed as a feature for Fedora 9[1]. For documentation on how to

Fedora Weekly News Issue 119

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 119 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 119 for the week of February 4th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue119 In Announcements, we have Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha, Fedora 9 Alpha Jigdo and Fedora 8 20080204 Re-Spin In Planet Fedora, we have A word of

Announcing Fedora 8 Xfce Spin

2008-02-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hello Friends, I am pleased to announce the immediate release of a brand new and sparkling, Fedora 8 Xfce Spin. Fedora Xfce Spin is a bootable Fedora Live CD image available for x86 and x86_64 architecture. It can be optionally installed to hard disk or converted into boot USB images and is

Fedora Weekly News Issue 120

2008-02-18 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 120 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 120 for the week of February 11th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue120 In Announcements, we have Announcing Fedora 8 Xfce Spin In Planet Fedora, we have KDE 4 Interview, Announcing Fedora Ambassadors Wall, Insert

Fedora 10's FUDCon

2008-02-23 Thread Max Spevack
The next North American FUDCon will be in Boston, MA. It will be held from June 19-21, in parallel with this year's Red Hat Summit. For information and to sign up: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF10 Thanks, Max -- fedora-announce-list mailing list

Are you a Fedora Contributor and want a LWN subscription?

2008-02-24 Thread Jeff Spaleta
To support the 10th anniversary of LWN.net, the Fedora Project has purchased 65 subscriptions to be given to Fedora contributors. The Fedora Board has decided that the fairest way to distribute this windfall of subscriptions is by holding an open lottery for all Fedora contributors who have an

Tiemann speech online

2008-03-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
Part of Michael Tiemann's Fedora in the Enterprise speech from FUDCon Raleigh 2008 is now available in Ogg Theora format on the Fedora torrent site: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/fudcon-raleigh-2008-tiemann-truncated.ogg.torrent Unfortunately, some scheduling and technical

Fedora 9 Beta slipped a few days

2008-03-20 Thread Jesse Keating
In order to give time for mirrors to sync up the Fedora 9 Beta bits, and to do some last minute testing, and to avoid releasing beta the day before a Holiday for a large part of the world, we have decided to delay the release of Fedora 9 Beta until Tuesday, March 25th. However since we're

Fedora Weekly News Issue 125

2008-03-24 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 125 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 125 for the week of March 17th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue125 In Announcements, we have Fedora 9 Beta slipped a few days, Michael Tiemann's Speech Online In Planet Fedora, we have Fedora University Tour,

Fedora Updates System

2008-03-25 Thread Stewart Adam
Did you know you can help packagers test updates, give them feedback and even prevent a faulty package from being pushed into the repositories? The new Fedora Updates System[1] (bodhi) integrates with the Fedora Build System (koji) and lets any user give feedback on a specific update, be it in

Rawhide 20080328 Snapshot Released

2008-03-28 Thread Jesse Keating
As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of Rawhide in iso and Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than to go through our mirroring system. If you cannot use bittorrent we apologize for the

FUDCon Lodging

2008-03-29 Thread Paul W. Frields
As the co-organizers for the North American FUDCon F10, the illustrious Max Spevack and I are trying to get a handle on our true hotel needs for the event. To that end, I’ve made a couple changes to the FUDCon planning page so we can gather information on who needs lodging for the show:

Re: Rawhide 20080328 Snapshot Released

2008-03-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 17:00 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of Rawhide in iso and Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than to go through our mirroring

Fedora Weekly News Issue 126

2008-03-31 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 126 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 126 for the week of March 24th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue126 In Announcements, we have F9 Beta release announcement, Rawhide 20080328 Snapshot, FUDCon Lodging, Fedora Python SIG and Fedora Updates System

Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 8 Re-Spin

2008-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 8. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 8 installation media and include all updates released as of March 31st, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386,

Purging old Fedora test releases

2008-04-02 Thread Jesse Keating
In order to make room for Fedora 9 and future releases, we are purging all the old test releases on download.fedora.redhat.com. Both the Core and post-Core test releases up to but not including Fedora 9 Beta. The content has been archived internally at Red Hat and may one day show up again for

Announcement list for Fedora Translation Community

2008-04-02 Thread Marek Mahut
Hello all, I would like to inform you about our new announce list for Fedora Localization Project. The email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The mailman interface: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-announce Regards, -- Marek Mahut

Call for Stories.

2008-04-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
Refer to: http://paul.frields.org/?p=966 We're looking for Fedora Stories -- a person who wants to talk about how Fedora has enabled them to do something interesting or exciting with the innovative technology we provide. We want to use these stories as part of the bigger Marketing Plan for

Rawhide 20080404 Snapshot Released

2008-04-04 Thread Jesse Keating
As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of Rawhide in Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than to go through our mirroring system. If you cannot use bittorrent we apologize for the

Fedora Weekly News Issue 127

2008-04-07 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 127 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 127 for the week of April 7th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue127 In Announcements, we have Rawhide 20080404 Snapshot Released, Call for Stories, Announcement list for Fedora Translation Community, Purging old

Fedora Weekly News Issue 128

2008-04-14 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 128 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 128 for the week of April 14th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue128 In Announcements, we have Please digg: Fedora stories. In Planet Fedora, we have FLSCo elections slipped, FLSCo elections slipped, Random Fedora

Fedora 9 Release date slipping by two weeks (new date, May 13)

2008-04-17 Thread Jesse Keating
At today's regularly scheduled meeting, the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) decided that Fedora 9 release will be slipping by exactly two weeks. Because of other slippage, coupled with some technical difficulties during this previous week, our Preview Release was unexpectedly

Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

2008-04-17 Thread Jesse Keating
After some minor delays (like all rawhide flights grounded for a few days of repair...), the Fedora Project is proud to announce the release of Fedora 9 Preview! This is a Preview release, it is fairly close to what the final product will be like. This is the most critical release for the Fedora

Change in Board composition

2008-04-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
Since the Fedora Board originally formed in 2006, the Fedora Project has changed quite a bit. We now have about two-thirds of our packages maintained by volunteer community members. Our technical steering committee, FESCo, is made up of a roughly even mix of volunteers and Red Hat employees.

Fedora 7 End of Life

2008-04-29 Thread Paul W. Frields
REMINDER: - Fedora 7 will reach its End of Life for official updates on Friday, June 13 -- one month after release of Fedora 9. Fedora 8 will remain supported until one month after the release of Fedora 10, or approximately the end of November 2008. For more information on the Fedora

Board public meeting, 1800 UTC 2008-05-06

2008-05-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 06 May 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to discuss

F9 beta for ia64 now available

2008-05-01 Thread Doug Chapman
= Release notes for F9-beta on ia64 = == Welcome == Welcome to the F9 beta release Fedora for ia64. F9 is the first Fedora release to be officially supported on ia64. This ia64 build of fedora is the first to be released under the secondary architectures project. We have made efforts to make

Board nominations

2008-05-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
A few weeks after the release of Fedora 9, it will be once again time for Fedora Project Board elections[1]. This time around, as you may have heard[2], we have shifted our composition to five elected seats out of nine, instead of the previous four. Are you someone who thinks a lot about Fedora’s

Fedora Xfce SIG

2008-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, If you are a fan of Xfce and want to help improve the Xfce experience in Fedora, join the Xfce SIG (Special Interest Group) at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Xfce Maintaining Xfce packages, translations, documentation, artwork and improve the Fedora Xfce Spin (installable Live CD)

Reminder about upcoming FUDCons

2008-05-07 Thread Max Spevack
I wanted to take a moment to remind our community about the 3 FUDCons that are coming up in the next few months, and encourage people to sign up and attend. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon May 30 -- a mini-FUDCon Berlin 2008, which takes place as a part of LinuxTag. LinuxTag itself

Rawhide moving on to Fedora 10

2008-05-12 Thread Jesse Keating
In preparation of the Fedora 9 release tomorrow, we've flipped the configuration bit that will allow rawhide to be composed from Fedora 10 content tomorrow. This will likely fail in spectacular ways due to all the pent up builds so it should be interesting. Those of you that have installed

Fedora 9

2008-05-12 Thread Paul W. Frields
Hello Fedora community -- I wanted to take the occasion of my first release as Fedora Project Leader to say a few -- OK, not so few -- words to everyone about what this release means to me, and what I hope you see in it too.  * * * My daughter Evie, who's seven

rpm.livna.org repositories for Fedora 9 (Sulphur) now available

2008-05-13 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On behalf of the Livna ( http://rpm.livna.org ) contributors I'd like to announce the availability of the Livna package repository for Fedora 9 (Sulphur). The Livna repository hosts software as RPM packages which cannot be shipped in the official Fedora repository for various reasons and

The Prophecy of the 9 comes true (Fedora 9 walks the earth!)

2008-05-13 Thread Jesse Keating
An ancient text prophesised this day would come, detailing the fate of all who are willing to accept what is offered to them: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/index.html And that day has come: the Computer said I will convert these unbelievers, and now that I have Sulphur it will

Red Hat Board Appointments

2008-05-13 Thread Paul W. Frields
As everyone probably knows, the Fedora Board is moving into an election season due to the release of another Fedora. In advance of the election, Red Hat appoints one seat, and the final seat is appointed afterward to make sure the Board is fairly balanced to represent the Board's many

Fedora 9 Everything Spin released

2008-05-18 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Fedora Unity is proud to announce the release of the Fedora 9 Everything Spin! Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits! The Everything Spin includes everything available at the time of the release of Fedora 9. It is the same, really, it is. Just more. Way, way more! And the

Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 9

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Liblit
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 9. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions

Wiki Migration (Tuesday 05-26-2008)

2008-05-24 Thread Mike McGrath
Hello Fedora Universe! It is my pleasure to announce that starting on Tuesday http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ will be run by Mediawiki instead of Moin. Why bother announcing this to everyone? Well there are a couple of reasons. 1) It will require work from people. There was no viable

Wiki Migration Complete!

2008-05-27 Thread Mike McGrath
The migration to Mediawiki is finally complete! The technical side, that is. Now is the part where we all learn how to migrate our knowledge and clean-up content. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ There are many things you need to keep in mind while exploring and learning this new environment.

Info about FUDCon Boston (please read)

2008-06-01 Thread Max Spevack
Hi all, As we begin the homestretch around finalizing FUDCon Boston, I wanted to clarify a few things about the importance of pre-registering, and also about the travel and hotel sponsorships. FUDCon Boston has a number of constraints on its budget, including: 1) Signage at the Hynes

Fedora Weekly News Issue 129

2008-06-03 Thread Max Spevack
The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 129. = Fedora Weekly News Issue 129 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 129 for the week ending June 1, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue129 Fedora Weekly News returns after a several

Board IRC meeting

2008-06-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
In the past few months, the Board has scheduled a public IRC meeting on the first meeting of the month. Because of the timing of LinuxTag last week, however, there will not be a public Board IRC meeting on Tuesday, June 3. We will announce the next public IRC meeting well in advance so community

Outage Notification: PHX 2008-06-05 15:00 UTC

2008-06-04 Thread seth vidal
There will be an outage starting at 2008-06-05 15:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-06-05 15:00 UTC' Affected Services: Wiki CVS / Source Control Buildsystem

Fedora Weekly News Issue 130

2008-06-09 Thread Max Spevack
The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 130. = Fedora Weekly News Issue 130 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 130 for the week ending June 8, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue130 If you are interested in contributing to

Outage Notification: ALL system 2008-06-10 21:30 UTC

2008-06-11 Thread seth vidal
There was an outage starting at 2008-06-10 21:30 UTC, which lasted about 15 minutes. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-06-10 21:30 UTC' Affected Services: All systems - depending on caches Unaffected

Fedora Weekly News Issue 131

2008-06-16 Thread Max Spevack
The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 131. = Fedora Weekly News Issue 131 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 131 for the week ending June 15, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue131 If you are interested in contributing to

Fedora 7 End of Life

2008-06-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
As announced earlier[1], Fedora 7 has reached its end of life for updates. Fedora 8 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 10. = = = [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00013.html signature.asc

Fedora Weekly News Issue 132

2008-06-30 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 132. = Fedora Weekly News Issue 132 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 132 for the week ending June 8, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue132

Fedora Board IRC meeting 1800 UTC 2008-07-08

2008-07-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
*** Apologies for the delay -- this posted on fedora-advisory-board list a few days ago but, for some reason, was kicked back by a MTA for this list. *** The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 08 July 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the

Fedora Weekly News Issue 133

2008-07-07 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 133. = Fedora Weekly News Issue 133 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 133 for the week ending July 5, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue133

Web UI, Database, XMLRPC Planned Outage | August 2nd, 2008 - 9:00 AM EST - 5:00 PM EST

2008-07-10 Thread David Lawrence
O U T A G E R E Q U E S T F O R M = Severity: Severity Two (High) Scheduled Date: August 2nd, 2008 Scheduled Time: 9:00 AM EST - 5:00 PM EST Estimated Time Required: 8-9 hours Performed By:

Fedora Weekly News Issue 134

2008-07-14 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 134. = Fedora Weekly News Issue 134 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 134 for the week ending July 12, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue134

FESCo Elections open on July 15th

2008-07-14 Thread Brian Pepple
Hi all, Elections for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) open at 0001 UTC on 15 July 2008 -- or about 1 hour from the time of this message. The voting system is available at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting The voting system uses the range voting method:

FUDCon Brno 2008

2008-07-17 Thread Max Spevack
Hi Fedora, The next FUDCon will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, from September 5 - 7, 2008. The main conference day and social event will be on Saturday (to attract the most people), with hackfest days on Friday and Sunday. FUDCon is always free to attend, no matter where in the world

Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 9 Re-Spin

2008-07-21 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD) of Fedora 9. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 9 installation media and include all updates released as of July 18th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64

Fedora Weekly News Issue 135

2008-07-21 Thread Pascal Calarco
Fedora Weekly News Issue 135 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 135 for the week ending July 19, 2008. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue Fedora Weekly News keep you updated with the latest issues, events and activities in the fedora community. If you are interested in

Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group

2008-07-21 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
The engineers at OLPC are busy building an educational experience for the kids of the world. They are basing their excellent work on Fedora. Their time is stretched perilously thin. Every hour an overworked OLPC engineer spends doing Fedora work is an hour they could be spending doing

Fedora Weekly News Issue 136

2008-07-28 Thread Pascal Calarco
=== Fedora Weekly News Issue 136 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 136 for the week ending July 26, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue136 Fedora Weekly News keep you updated with the latest issues, events and activities in the fedora community. If you are interested in

Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 9

2008-07-28 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
Hi there Fedora land! The Unofficial Fedora FAQ has been updated for Fedora 9! http://www.fedorafaq.org/ For this update, I reviewed and revised almost every single question in the FAQ to be up-to-date and even simpler than before. Of course the new FAQ contains an

The results are in for the Fedroa 10 naming

2008-07-28 Thread Josh Boyer
Drum roll... And the winner of the Fedora 10 codename is: Cambridge The full GPG-signed information from our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, including vote totals, is located here: http://jwboyer.fedorapeople.org/fedora10relname.txt.asc Many thanks to the Board, Paul Frields, and Nigel

[Fwd: bugzilla.redhat.com Web UI, Database, XMLRPC Planned Outage | August 2nd, 2008 - 9:00 AM EST - 7:00 PM EST]

2008-07-31 Thread John Poelstra
Reminder: This Weekend Original Message Subject: bugzilla.redhat.com Web UI, Database, XMLRPC Planned Outage | August 2nd, 2008 - 9:00 AM EST - 7:00 PM EST Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:05:42 -0400 From: Dave Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] O U T A G E R E Q U E S T F O R M

bugzilla.redhat.com Web UI, Database, XMLRPC Planned Outage | August 2nd, 2008 - 9:00 AM EST - 11:00 PM EST

2008-08-02 Thread Dave Lawrence
Update: The bugzilla.redhat.com upgrade is now complete. Note: A database dump is currently running to allow us to update the slave database for replication. So the system may seem sluggish for a few more hours. Please send any feedback/comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please file any bugs you

Fedora Weekly News Issue 137

2008-08-04 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
Fedora Weekly News Issue 137 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 137 for the week ending August 2, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue137 Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events and activities in the Fedora community. We are

Announcing Fedora 10 Alpha!

2008-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
In an ongoing effort to prevent premature kitten death, the Fedora Project is ecstatic to present the availability of Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Alpha. Test now, make it better now, keep Cambridge on schedule, and protect the kittens in the future. The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for

Updated Fedora Privacy Policy

2008-08-05 Thread Tom spot Callaway
This is a notice that the official Fedora Privacy Policy has been updated. A brief notice can also be found on the main website (http://fedoraproject.org). Previously, Fedora was using the generic Red Hat Privacy Policy, which did not make sense for a number of reasons. Fedora now has its own

Fedora Weekly News #138

2008-08-11 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 138 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 138 for the week ending August 11, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue138 Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events

ACL Changes and new package group policy

2008-08-13 Thread Casey Dahlin
The infrastructure team has been working on a new group policy to encourage greater openness in the community while containing newer members until they have earned the trust of the community. As such, the following changes are being implemented: 1) Effective already: The cvsextras group is now

Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

2008-08-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Fedora Infrastructure team continues to work on the issues we discovered earlier this week. Right now, we're getting the account system restored to service, along with some of the application servers. We're also taking advantage of the outages to upgrade a few systems at the same time. Some

Fedora Weekly News, Issue 139

2008-08-18 Thread Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 139 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Board IRC Public Meeting + 1.1.2 Fedora Test Day: Encrypted Installs Plymouth + 1.1.3 ACL Changes and New Package Group Policy + 1.1.4 Important Infrastructure

Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

2008-08-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
Our team has been hard at work for several days now, restoring services in the Fedora infrastructure. We started with what we identified as Fedora's critical path, those systems required to restore minimum daily operation. That work to be completely finished by the end of the day. We then move on

Infrastructure report, 2008-08-22 UTC 1200

2008-08-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
Last week we discovered that some Fedora servers were illegally accessed. The intrusion into the servers was quickly discovered, and the servers were taken offline. Security specialists and administrators have been working since then to analyze the intrusion and the extent of the compromise as

Fedora Weekly News, Issue 140

2008-08-25 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 140 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 140 for the week ending August 24, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue140 Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues,

Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Re-Spin

2008-08-25 Thread ben
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD Sets) of Fedora 8. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 8 installation media and include all updates released as of August 14th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64

Fedora Weekly News 141

2008-09-01 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 141 == Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 141 for the week ending August 30, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue141 Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events

Echo Monthly News, Issue 1

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Sourada
The echo-icon-theme development team just officially released its first Echo Monthly News Issue [1]. In this release we cover these sections: 1. New Icons 2. Huge icons - 256x256 3. One Canvas Work-Flow 4. Automating the secondary jobs 1. Add a new icon set to Git

Fedora 8 and 9 updates status

2008-09-05 Thread Jesse Keating
As you well know, we have been working hard to get updates for 8 and 9 flowing again, complete with new package signing keys. Discussion has been somewhat quiet on this front as we've all had our heads down and have been working hard toward a solution, one that involves little to no manual effort

Fedora Board IRC meeting 1800 UTC 2008-09-09

2008-09-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 9 September 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to

Re: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status

2008-09-08 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:09 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Announcements regarding the location of said document and how to help with content will be coming shortly. Time for another update on the F8 and F9 updates status. Our testing with the live update content as gone well. We identified a

Fedora Week News, Issue 144

2008-09-22 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 144 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 144 for the week ending September 20, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue144 Selected Contents: In this issue we cover the upcoming plans for

Fedora Weekly News #144

2008-09-22 Thread Oisin Feeley
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 144 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 144 for the week ending September 20, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue144 In this action packed issue Announcements reminds you of important Fedora 10 freeze dates and the latest on the post security scare

Fedora Weekly News #145

2008-09-29 Thread Pascal Calarco
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 145 for the week ending September 28, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue145 This week's issue brings plenty of insights into the Fedora 10 theme decisions, as covered by longtime FWN writer, Nicu Buculei. Max Spevak reports on several recent

Cambridge (F-10) Beta release announcement

2008-09-30 Thread Jesse Keating
Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are

Fedora Board IRC meeting 1800 UTC 2008-10-07

2008-10-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
he Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 7 October 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to

Echo Monthly News, Issue 2

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Sourada
We've just released the second issue of the Echo Monthly News [1]. This issue focuses on these topics: 1. New Icons 2. Updated Tutorials 3. Guidelines Update 4. Releases 5. Echo Enabled in Rawhide as Default Icon Set 6. Icons We Need to Create for

Fedora Weekly News #146

2008-10-06 Thread Pascal Calarco
-- Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 -- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 for the week ending October 5, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue146 In this issue of FWN, Max Spevack covers the announcement of the beta for Fedora 10 (Cambridge) and reminds us of the upcoming Fedora

The Big ACL Opening

2008-10-15 Thread Casey Dahlin
So, as most of you have probably heard, we are now on a two-tiered access system for CVS. The final change which we will be making is the mass ACL open. What will happen is all packages which are now set to be private, accessible by their maintainers and a few specific individuals only, will

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