Fedora 9 interviews - what's left

Rodrigo Menezes rodrigomenezes12 at yahoo.com.br
Thu Mar 13 04:50:31 UTC 2008


Guys,

Any news about the interviews below? I wanna talk about Anaconda in the 
next one, I need to know if someone is covering this issue.

Cheers,

Rodrigo Menezes


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> I see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/EricSandeen done by 
> Rodrigo Menezes. It seems complete though he hasn't announced it himself.
>
> What's left?
> ------------
>
> FreeIPA - really unique and we are leading this effort that probably 
> will help solve one of the major admin pain point
>
> Presto is in limbo for now. So we can skip it
>
> Jidgo - Should cover if we are getting this as one of the alternative 
> distribution methods for Fedora 9. Cover pyjidgo and whatever new 
> features we are driving. Some discussions at
>
> https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/jigdo-user/2007-November/000113.html
>
> PreUpgrade - Should be really interesting to cover
>
> Anaconda - Very visible changes.Interview the entire Anaconda team. 
> Partition resizing support, Encryption support, netinst.iso that 
> combines boot.iso and rescue.iso, lots of other backend work
>
> Display - Adam Jackson is release guy for the next upstream release 
> and scheduled it around Fedora 9. Should cover Fast X, RandR and 
> probably Soeren's work covered to some extend in
>
> http://www.j5live.com/2008/01/30/j5-live-vlog-soeren-talks-about-projectors-in-fedora-rawhide/ 
>
>
> Virtualization - Lot of major work esp xen on paravirt_ops. Look up a 
> lot of blogs including
>
> http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2007/11/plan-for-xen-kernels-in-fedora-9 
>
>
> Get in touch with Daniel Berrange. He would know who else we can 
> interview on this. Ask about Ovirt, virtual appliance creator, policy 
> kit integration with virt manager, virtual storage, virt kernel boot etc.
>
> LTSP integration - Very high profile. Interview Warren and Eric. 
> https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/jigdo-user/2007-November/000113.html
>
> Upstart - Probably the first time, we had a very core feature be 
> mostly community driven. Need to cover the FUDCon decision bits too. 
> Not too interesting technically since we no distribution is actually 
> taking advantage of upstart features yet and will be running under 
> sysvinit compatibility mode.
>
> GDM, Gvfs, GCC 4.3 - Fedora is driving upstream. Backend stuff though 
> except for GDM. We will be early adopters so might be good to cover 
> GDM first.
>
> Swfdec - Consult with desktop team and interview upstream too if we 
> are getting this installed by default
>
> SELinux user space confinement - Not in the feature list but this is a 
> interesting feature neverthless and deserves to be highlighted better. 
> Blog at
> http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/15700.html
>
> Rahul
>


		
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