Subject: Fedora 12 Beta now available! - msg#00006

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Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
release every six months. We have reached the Fedora 12 Beta, the last
important development milestone of Fedora 12. Only critical bug fixes
will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora
12, scheduled to be released in mid-November. We invite you to join us
and participate in making Fedora 12 a solid release by downloading,
testing, and providing us your valuable feedback.

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking.
Should you trip across one of them, be sure it gets fixed before release
by reporting your discovery at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Thank you!

What's New in Fedora 12?

* Optimized performance - All software packages on 32-bit (x86_32)
architecture have been compiled for i686 systems with special
optimization for Intel Atom processors used in many netbooks but without
losing compatibility with the overwhelming majority of CPUs. There is a
list of the rare CPUs which will no longer be supported.

* Smaller and faster updates - In Fedora 11, the optional yum-presto
plugin, developed by Fedora contributor Jonathan Dieter, reduced update
size by transmitting only the changes in the updated packages. Now, the
plugin is installed by default. Also, RPMs now use XZ rather than gzip
for compression, providing smaller package sizes without the memory and
CPU penalties associated with bzip2. This lets us fit more software into
each Fedora image, and uses less space on mirrors, making their
administrators' lives a little easier. Thanks to the Fedora
infrastructure team for their work in generating delta RPMs.

* NetworkManager broadband and other enhancements - NetworkManager,
originally developed by Red Hat's Dan Williams, was introduced in Fedora
7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution for
distributions everywhere. Enhancements to NetworkManager make both
system-wide connections and mobile broadband connections easier than
ever. Signal strength and network selection are available for choosing
the best mobile broadband connection when you're on the road. Bluetooth
PAN support offers a simple click through process to access the Internet
from your mobile phone. NetworkManager can now configure always-on and
static address connections directly from the desktop. PolicyKit
integration has been added so configuration management can be done via
central policy where needed. IPv6 support has also been improved.

* Next-generation (Ogg) Theora video - For several years, Theora, the
open and free format not encumbered by known patents has provided a way
for freedom-loving users to share video. Fedora 12 includes the new
Theora 1.1, which achieves near-H.264 quality, meeting the expectations
of demanding users with crisp, vibrant media in both streaming and
downloadable form. Thanks to the work of the Xiph.Org Foundation's
Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, sponsored by Red Hat, other Xiph
developers, and the contribution of Mozilla.org, Firefox 3.5 can deliver
free media on the web out of the box, using the Theora video and Vorbis
audio formats even better than the previous release of Fedora.

* Graphics support improvements - Fedora 12 introduces experimental 3D
support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out,
install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. On many cards, this
support should allow desktop effects to be used. Kernel mode setting
(KMS) support, which was introduced on AMD hardware in Fedora 10 and
extended to Intel hardware in Fedora 11, is now extended to NVIDIA
hardware as well, meaning the great majority of systems now benefit from
the smooth, fully-graphical startup sequence made possible by KMS. The
Fedora graphical startup sequence now works better on systems with
multiple monitors. Also on multiple monitor systems, the desktop will
now automatically be spread across all monitors by default, rather than
having all monitors display the same output, including on NVIDIA chips
(where multiple monitor spanning was not possible without manual
configuration changes in Fedora 11). Systems with NVIDIA graphics chips
also gain initial support for suspend and resume functionality via the
default Nouveau driver. Initial support for the new DisplayPort display
connector has been added for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia
and ATI systems is already under rapid development and will be included
in the next release of Fedora. Thanks to the Red Hat Xorg team including
Adam Jackson (X server), Kristian HÃgsberg (Intel driver), Dave Airlie
and Jerome Glisse (Radeon driver for AMD), and Ben Skeggs (Nouveau
driver for NVIDIA).

* Virtualization improvements - Not content with all the improvements in
Fedora 11, we've kicked virtualization based on KVM up another notch in
Fedora 12. There are extensive improvements in performance, management,
resource sharing, and still more security enhancements. A new library
(libguestfs) and an interactive tool (guestfish) are now available for
directly accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images.

* Automatic reporting of crashes and SELinux issues - Abrt, a tool to
help non-power users report crashes to Bugzilla with a few mouse clicks,
is now enabled by default. Abrt collects detailed information
automatically and helps developers identify and resolve issues faster,
improving the quality of individual upstream components and Fedora. The
SELinux alert monitoring tool has also added the ability to report
SELinux issues to Bugzilla quickly and easily with just a couple of
clicks.

* New Dracut initrd generation tool - Up until Fedora 11, the boot
system (initial ram disk or initrd) used to boot Fedora was monolithic,
very distribution specific and didn't provide much flexibility. This has
been replaced with Dracut, an initial ram disk generation tool with an
event-based framework designed to be distribution-independent thanks to
the Dracut team including Harald Hoyer, Jeremy Katz, Dave Jones and many
others. It has been also adopted by OLPC which uses Fedora; OLPC modules
for Dracut are available in the Fedora repository.

* PackageKit plugins - PackageKit now has a plugin which can install an
appropriate package when a user tries to run a command from a missing
package. Another new plugin allows installation of software packages
from a web browser. Thanks to Red Hat's Richard Hughes and the
PackageKit team.

* Bluetooth on-demand - Bluetooth services are automatically started
when needed and stopped 30 seconds after last device use, reducing
initial startup time and resource use when Bluetooth is not in active
use. Thanks to Red Hat's Bastien Nocera.

* Moblin graphical interface for netbooks - The Moblin graphical
interface and applications are fully integrated thanks to Peter
Robinson, a Fedora Project volunteer, and others. To use it, just
install the Moblin Desktop Environment package group using yum or the
graphical software management tools, and choose Moblin from the login
manager. A F12 Moblin Fedora Remix (installable Live CD) will also be
available.

* PulseAudio enhancements - Red Hat's Lennart Poettering and several
others have made significant improvements to the PulseAudio system.
Improved mixer logic makes volume control more fine-grained and
reliable. Integration with the Rygel UPnP media server means you can
stream audio directly from your system to any UPnP / DLNA client, such
as a Playstation 3. Hotplug support has been made more intelligent, so
if you configure a device as the default output for a stream, unplug
that device -- causing the stream(s) to be moved to another output
device -- and later replug it, the stream is moved back to the preferred
device. Finally, Bluetooth audio support means pairing with any
Bluetooth audio device makes it available for use through PulseAudio.

* Lower process privileges - In order to mitigate the impact of security
vulnerabilities, permissions have been hardened for many files and
system directories and process privileges have been lowered for a number
of core components that require super user privileges. Red Hat's Steve
Grubb has developed a new library, libcap-ng, and integrated it into
many core system components to improve the security of Fedora.

* SELinux sandbox - It is now possible to confine applications' access
to the system and run them in a secure sandbox that takes advantage of
the sophisticated capabilities of SELinux. Dan Walsh, SELinux developer
at Red Hat, explains the details at
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html

* Open Broadcom firmware - The openfwwf open source Broadcom firmware is
included by default. This means wireless networking will be available
out of the box on some Broadcom chipsets.

* Hybrid live images - The Live images provided in this release can be
directly imaged onto a USB stick using dd (or any equivalent tool) to
create bootable Live USB keys. The Fedora Live USB Creator for Windows
and the livecd-tools for Fedora are still recommended for data
persistence and non-destructive writes. Thanks to Jeremy Katz.

* Better webcam support - While Fedora 11 improved webcam support, in
Fedora 12 you can expect even better video quality, especially for less
expensive webcams. Red Hat's Hans de Goede, developer of the libv4l
library, has more details on his continuous upstream webcam support
enhancements at http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/6989.html.

* GNOME 2.28 - The latest version of the GNOME desktop includes the
lighter Gnote replacement for Tomboy as the default note application,
and Empathy replaces Pidgin as the default instant messenger. The new
volume control application, first seen in Fedora 11, has been improved
to restore some of the popular functionality from earlier releases
without making the interface too complex.

* GNOME Shell preview - Fedora 12 includes an early version of GNOME
Shell, which will become the default interface for GNOME 3.0 and beyond.
To try it, install the gnome-shell package, and use the Desktop Effects
configuration tool to enable it. It will only work correctly from the
GNOME desktop environment, not others such as KDE or Xfce. This is a
preview technology, and some video cards may not be supported.

* KDE 4.3 - The new KDE features an updated "Air" theme and fully
configurable keyboard shortcuts in Plasma, improved performance and new
desktop effects in the window manager, a new bug reporting tool, and a
configuration tool for the LIRC infra-red remote control system.

* Cool new stuff for developers beginning with Eclipse Galileo, which
includes more plugins than ever before. Perl 6 is now included, along
with PHP 5.3. For Haskell developers, the Haskell Platform now provides
a standardized set of libraries and tools. But one of the biggest
changes for developers is that most of the nice new features of Fedora
12, from Bluetooth to WebCams is implemented through underlying
libraries, and many of the improvements will be included simply by
relinking your application. Also available in this release are SystemTap
1.0 for improved instrumenting and debugging of binaries, complete with
Eclipse integration, and the newest NetBeans IDE for Java development.

* Cool new stuff for sysadmins includes added functionality for
clustered Samba services (including active/active configurations) over
GFS2; and the ability to boot a cluster of Fedora systems from a single,
shared root file system.

* Multi-Pointer X - The update to X.Org server 1.7 introduces the X
Input Extension version 2.0 (XI2), with much work contributed by Red
Hat's Peter Hutterer. This extension provides a new client API for
handling input devices and also Multi-Pointer X (MPX) functionality. MPX
functionality allows X to cope with many inputs of arbitrary types
simultaneously, a prerequisite for (among others) multitouch-based
desktops and multi-user interaction on a single screen. This is
low-level work that applications and desktop environments will
incrementally take advantage of in future releases. More details are
available in the Release Notes and in the XI2 tag of Peter Hutterer's
blog at http://who-t.blogspot.com/search/label/xi2

A full feature list is available on the wiki at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList

OK, go get it. You know you can't wait.

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

Draft release notes and guides for several languages are available at

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts.html

--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- FreedomÂ is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 198

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 FUDCon Lodging -- IMPORTANT + 1.1.2 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.2.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 DeltaISO update + 1.3.4 Fedora 12 Beta RC2 testing o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 FLP Representation at the Beta Release Readiness Meeting + 1.4.2 Scheduled Translation Tasks for Fedora 12 + 1.4.3 Concern About Virt-manager Translation Submission + 1.4.4 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Constantine Wallpaper Extras o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 198 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 198[1] for the week ending October 18, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue begins with some updates on lodging for December's Fedora User and Developer Conference in Toronto. If you plan to attend or are considering it, be sure to read this. News from the Fedora Planet presents news and views from Fedora community members. In Quality Assurance news, details from the latest upcoming Test Days on SELinux and power management, and an invitation for Test Day proposals for Fedora 12 and 13 cycles, in addition to wonderful detail on the weekly QA meetings and team activities, and updates towards Fedora 12 beta. In translation news, details from last week's Fedora 12 beta readiness meeting, a query about the Russian translation of Fedora 12 virt-manager, and details of new Fedora Localization Project members. From the Art/Design team, details on Constantine (Fedora 12) wallpapers. Our issue wraps up this week with details on last week's security patches for Fedora 10 and 11. Enjoy FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list@xxxxxxxxxx The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue198 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- FUDCon Lodging -- IMPORTANT ---- Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced [1] exclusively about the FUDCon Lodging. On his brief, he mentioned, "We've added an extra "hotel" field to the FUDCon wiki pre-registration table, on the far right.[2] If you have already booked at the hotel, please visit the wiki.If you do not need lodging, please visit the wiki. Use the following codes for the hotel booking field: Y == HAVE booked lodging NA == Not applicable, don't need/want If you have not booked, but need lodging, you don't need to do anything at this time. The FUDCon planning team will get initial roomsharing set up for people based on the responses, so please be courteous to your fellow Fedora community members by promptly responding [1][2]. Thanks. [1] If your lodging is not being funded by the Fedora Project, and you don't want to room share, that's perfectly OK. :-) Please mark the wiki comments to say "not roomsharing" in that case. [2] If you have already found a roommate, please indicate that on the wiki in your "Comments" field. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00004.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_4 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Richard W.M. Jones described[1] a "Poor man's P2V": "What happens when you have an old server sitting in the corner â the hardware is flaky and you need to set up a virtual equivalent ASAP, but no one can remember how that old server is configured? People will sell you very expensive software to solve this problem for you. But if you have some time and patience you can do P2V conversions by hand for free, and itâs not too hard. Hereâs how." Rahul Sundaram found[2] that the recent major changes to Thunderbird's user interface (that had suddenly appeared after a routine Fedora 11 update) have been fixed/reverted. Michael DeHaan tried to define[3] all of the possible meanings of the word "Cloud". Seth Vidal wondered[4] about the growth of Fedora (for example, number of packages and size of Yum repository metadata) and how to sustain future growth. Jose M Manimala introduced[5] Entente, a web services framework for Python "which requires minimal configuration and can be deployed based on Generated classes or user defined classes." MÃirÃn Duffy demoed[6] a new GTK font selector dialog box that may drastically improve usability. MÃirÃn also posted[7] the complete part list, with photos (including the giant carrying case). James Antill addressed[8] some of the issues affecting the installation of multiple versions of a single (RPM) package on a system, and how Python 3 in particular can be handled. Martin Sourada looked[9] at how lighting affects the Echo Icon Theme. "So, I wonder what do you folks reading the Fedora (Design) Planet think? It's still not too late to adjust the guidelines for Echo Perspective..." 1. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/poor-mans-p2v/ 2. http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/thunderbird-problem-gets-fixed/ 3. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/10/14/what-does-cloud-mean/ 4. http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/limits-to-growth/ 5. http://josemanimala.eu.org/posts/305 6. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/gtk-font-selector-ui-update-round-1/ 7. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/open-source-portable-usability-testing-lab-part-2-the-parts/ 8. http://illiterat.livejournal.com/7660.html 9. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/echo-icons-lighting-and-shadows.html -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's planned Test Day on internationalization (i18n) was postponed to a yet-to-be-determined future date. Our apologies to anyone who made time to attend. Two Test Days are scheduled for next week. The first[1] is on the confined SELinux users feature. This feature involves assigning an SELinux role to a user. The role's policy controls the extent of the user's access to the system. The Test Day will focus on testing several scenarios to ensure the policy restrictions work as they should. As usual, there will be a live CD available for testing - there's no need to install Rawhide. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2009-10-20 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. The second Test Day[2] will be on power management[3], especially specific improvements made in Fedora 12. Some very specific but easy-to-run test cases which will greatly aid the development team in refining power management have been developed for the Test Day: there's even a helpful script which runs the tests and generates the need results automatically. As usual, there will be a live CD available for testing - there's no need to install Rawhide. This Test Day will be very easy to participate in, and the information you can generate will be very helpful, so please come along and help out! The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2009-10-22 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. No Fit and Finish track Test Day is planned for next week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 or 13 cycles, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-20 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-22 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PowerManagementF12 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-10-12. The full log is available[2]. James Laska reported that the new hardware which would be used to host the israwhidebroken.com project and other parts of the AutoQA project is in transit. James Laska had contacted the Anaconda development team to check if the recent installer test days had identified any Beta blocker bugs. He found that the first test day had resulted in three blockers being added to the list. Jesse Keating worried that too much testing was being done after the Beta freeze, which made resolving identified bugs very difficult. James felt that extensive testing was being done both before and after the freeze. Jesse believed some of the blocker bugs that were found after the freeze date could have been found earlier. James agreed to investigate the bugs in question to see when they were introduced and when they were identified. James Laska reviewed the status of the first Beta release candidate build, and noted status on the last remaining beta blocker bug was unclear. Denise Dumas said that Dave Lehman would investigate and report whether the bug was fixed in the release candidate build, and hence whether a second release candidate build would be required. James, Liam Li and Rui He had already started validation testing on the release candidate build[3]. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He had been working on backlinking from the test status information on israwhidebroken.com to the actual test result in the autotest front end, but had not yet found a satisfactory solution. He had also been looking at auto-generating a Wiki page to list the critical path packages (as the set of critical path packages can change unpredictably, a manually-maintained static page is not a good solution). His plan for this is blocked by the Python interface to the Wiki using JSON, which cannot create or edit pages. Will and James Laska agreed that James would work on creating a package of the israwhidebroken.com code to be used for the production instance of the site. Kamil Paral reported steady progress on his packagediff test for identifying major changes between package versions. He had initial implementations of most important tests, and was working to generate fake packages so he can test the script and isolate any bugs in it. The group agreed that in the long term it would make sense to integrate Kamil's work as extensions to the existing rpmdiff tool, but in the short term it could be hosted as part of the AutoQA project. JÃhann GuÃmundsson explained his project to revise and standardize Wiki pages dealing with debugging and reporting bugs in various components[4]. He had created a template for such pages[5] and revised several existing pages to fit this new template. The group discussed a standard naming convention for such pages, and agreed on How_to_debug_(component name). JÃhann mentioned that he would welcome feedback on the usefulness of the existing pages, which would be the most important ones to revise, and what new pages of this type should be created. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[6] was held on 2009-10-13. Adam Williamson commented on the QA group's discussion of JÃhann GuÃmundsson's debugging page revision project, noting the agreement on the How_to_debug_(component name) naming convention. Edward Kirk noted that housekeeping tasks, which would have been starting that week, had been delayed due to the overall release schedule delay occasioned by the delay of the Beta release. Adam Williamson noted that Richard June was not present to give an update on the kernel triage project, nor was Brennan Ashton present to discuss the triage metrics project. Sergey Rudchenko wanted to know if there was a way to have Bugzilla notify him of new bugs being filed on a particular component, but not of any change activity to existing bugs, as he found the volume of email with all the change messages included overwhelming. Edward Kirk suggested that he use the RSS feed search result feature for this. Any Bugzilla search can be used as an RSS feed in Red Hat's Bugzilla, so to achieve the desired result you can simply search for NEW bugs in any component and subscribe to the feed for the search result. New bugs for that component will then be shown on the feed. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-10-19 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-10-20 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-12/fedora-meeting.2009-10-12-16.00.log.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_Beta_RC1_Install 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00112.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:How_to_debug 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings --- DeltaISO update --- Andre Robatino reported[1] that he was unable to generate DeltaISOs on Rawhide as a side-effect of the endianness issue in xz which had been previously discussed by the development group. Andre later announced[2] DeltaISOs for Beta test compose -> Beta RC1 and Beta RC1 -> Beta RC2. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00197.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00222.html --- Fedora 12 Beta RC2 testing --- Liam Li announced the formal testing process for the second release candidate build of Fedora 12 Beta[1]. He noted that the test matrix was available[2] and asked for the group's help in performing as many of the tests as possible. Cornel Panceac wondered[3] why there were no live images available. Jesse Keating explained[4] that he had had to delay building the live images until he was sure the regular installer images were OK due to resource constraints. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00203.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_Beta_RC2_Install 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00260.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00290.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- FLP Representation at the Beta Release Readiness Meeting --- FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto represented the FLP in the Project Wise Fedora 12 Beta Readiness meeting held on 14th October 2009[1]. In her report, she thanked the Package Maintainers for responding to the request from FLP to rebuild most of the packages for translation review. Additionally, a number of bugs were filed during the Translation Review and Noriko put forward a request to check the possibility for their correction in Fedora 12 GA. Paul Frields has taken responsibility to take this issue to Bill Nottingham. Noriko also raised concern about the string freeze breaks that happened during this release. Documentation, Banner, Website translation are scheduled for later dates and Noriko informed that FLP would be communicating with the respective teams accordingly. The complete log for the meeting is also available[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00112.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-14/fedora-meeting.2009-10-14-19.01.log.html --- Scheduled Translation Tasks for Fedora 12 --- The deadline for translation of Fedora 12 Beta Release Notes was scheduled for 12th October 2009 and the .rpm file built the next day. The next significant Translation milestone is the translation of all the Fedora Guides, which would start on 21st October 2009 and end on 5th November 2009.[1] 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00107.html --- Concern About Virt-manager Translation Submission --- The maintainer of the Russian Translation Team, Yulia Poyarkova raised a concern[1] about the submission of the virt-manager translations, since the bug[2] accepting the translations has been closed in preparation for Fedora 12 GA. This module is currently not available for submission via translate.fedoraproject.org. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00113.html 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493795 --- New Members in FLP --- Alexey Matveichev (Russian)[1], Enczel (Korean)[2], and Bruce Cowan (British English)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00105.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00108.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00115.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Constantine Wallpaper Extras --- Reaching the proposed deadline, Martin Sourada started the selection[1] for the extra wallpapers[2] to be included in Fedora 12 "originally the idea was to aim for 4, I think best would be to hear people's (from the design team) opinion on which ones would they include (aiming for 4 +/- 2) and base the final number on the discussion." In reply, MÃirÃn Duffy opted[3] for quality over quantity "My preference would be for fewer but higher-quality than more with varying quality". Nicu Buculei listed his preferences[4], including the 'educational' wallpaper[5] made by Maria Leandro[6], which wasn't in the proposals list, and Martin Sourada followed[7] with a lit of his own options. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001181.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_Artwork/Extras 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001182.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001185.html 5. http://tatica.org/2009/07/15/wallpapers-fedora-para-ninos/ 6. http://tatica.org/2009/07/15/wallpapers-fedora-para-ninos/ 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001186.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * perl-Net-OAuth-0.19-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00497.html * phpMyAdmin-3.2.2.1-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00490.html * Django-1.1.1-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00473.html * rubygem-rails-2.3.2-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00431.html * rubygem-activeresource-2.3.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00430.html * rubygem-activesupport-2.3.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00429.html * rubygem-activerecord-2.3.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00428.html * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00427.html * rubygem-actionmailer-2.3.2-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00426.html * drupal-service_links-6.x.1.0-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00399.html * dopewars-1.5.12-8.1033svn.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00370.html * deltarpm-3.4-18.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00363.html * dnsmasq-2.46-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00328.html --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * kernel-2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00483.html * perl-Net-OAuth-0.19-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00476.html * Django-1.1.1-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00475.html * phpMyAdmin-3.2.2.1-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00467.html * dnsmasq-2.46-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00449.html * drupal-service_links-6.x.1.0-5.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00375.html * dopewars-1.5.12-8.1033svn.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00313.html - end FWN 198 - -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

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