Fedora Weekly News 178

Pascal Calarco pcalarco at nd.edu
Mon Jun 1 14:47:24 UTC 2009


Fedora Weekly News Issue 178

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 178[1] for the week ending May 31st, 
2009.

We have a couple changes of note this week. Oisin Feeley, who has been 
on the editorial team for FWN and writer for the Development section, is 
leaving FWN for an extended time period due to other commitments. We 
will miss him and hope to have him back at some time. Adam Williamson, 
who currently also writes the wonderful QA beat, joins the editorial 
team at FWN -- welcome Adam!

This week's issue starts off with some poetry on next week's expected 
Fedora 11 release, and much activity on upcoming Fedora activity days, 
dev cons, and events. In news from the Fedora Planet, we learn about 
SELinux sandbox, an overview on virtualization features in F11, several 
musings on aspects of open source projects/communities, and a feature 
interview with Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields. The Quality 
Assurance beat details the QA weekly meeting leading up to F11 next 
week, F11 FAQ work, and release candidate testing detail. Development 
asks whether gNaughty is indeed a Hot Babe, detail on getting graphics 
support working for the Fedora Live USB with the Chrome9 Vx800 GPU, and 
suggestions on upgrading to F11 via yum. In Translation news, upcoming 
F11 website translation details and a new member of the Romanian 
translation team. This issue is rounded out with an overview of the 
security advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 this past week. Enjoy this issue 
and get ready for Fedora 11 a week from tomorrow!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see 
our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list at redhat.com

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

    1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue178
    2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

-- Announcements --

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3].

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

    1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
    2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
    3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

--- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) ---

This week's Fedora 11 announcements come with apologies to William 
Butler Yeats[1].

Somewhere in the build systems of Fedora,
A shape with lion body and the name of a Greek king,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the impatient downloaders.
The schedule slips again[2]; but now I know
That 6 months of stony sleep
Were vexed to release by Jesse Keating,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards June 9th to be born?

    1. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming
    2. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00011.html

--- Fedora Board ---

The Fedora Board's next public IRC meeting will be held on Thursday June 
4th, at 1700 UTC[1].

Join[2] #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation, and join 
#fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00010.html
    2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#IRC

--- FUDCons and FADs ---

This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as 
well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days.
-- Fedora Activity Days: Malaysia and Rheinfelden

At press time, two Fedora Activity Days[1] were wrapping up, one in 
Malaysia[2] and one in Germany[3] for more information. See Max 
Spevack's blog[4] for more information.

    1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD
    2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Malaysia_May_2009
    3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Rheinfelden
    4. http://spevack.livejournal.com/81179.html

--- Fedora Activity Day: Development Cycle ---

In North America, Jesse Keating announced[1] an upcoming Fedora Activity 
Day[2] "for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and 
discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a 
proposal on how to fix many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to 
decide on a solution, it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will 
then be shared with the whole community for more input and work."

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00012.html
    2. 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009

---- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 ----

FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 
people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of 
over 100.

If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page.

    1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009

---- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ----

FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 120 
people pre-registered for the event.

If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page.

    1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009

--- Upcoming Events ---

Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!

June 8-10: FAD Fedora Development Cycle[1] in Raleigh, North Carolina.

June 9: Fedora 11 Release Party[2] in Managua, Nicaragua.

June 13: Fedora 11 Release Party[3] in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

June 12-13: VCNSL[4] in Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela.

June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[5] in Clemson, South Carolina.

June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[6] in Clemson, South Carolina

June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[7] in Portland, Oregon.

June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[8] in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

June 24-27: LinuxTag[9] in Berlin, Germany.

June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[10] in Berlin, Germany.

    1. 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009
    2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora_UCA_jun09
    3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Wau
    4. https://cnsl.org.ve/
    5. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/
    6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF
    7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009
    8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009
    9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009
   10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009

-- 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 ---

Michael DeHaan responded[1] respond to an article[2] by Matt Assay on 
cnet (which in turn cited one of Michael's previous posts[3] on the 
topic of "Recognizing and Avoiding Common Open Source Community Pitfalls"):

     "Sure — building any sort of collaborative infrastructure is hard. 
Yet there are those that want to sell open source as that (another 
bullet point on a slidedeck), and then there are those that believe 
software is open, that information should be free, everyone can work 
together with everyone, we are all equals, and that we will keep no 
secrets."

Daniel Walsh introduced[4] the SELinux Sandbox,a "policy that allows 
users to build scripts to process untrusted content into some output 
that they could safely use." James Morris elaborated[5] with further 
points on the SELinux Sandbox and the problems with Ambient Authority.

Jack Aboutboul interviewed[6] Daniel Berrange, Red Hat Virtualization 
Team Engineer "about the many key upgrades to virt technology in F11 
focusing on areas of usability, performance and security."

Dan Williams showed off[7] the new NetworkManager network selector user 
interface, to replace the old GtkMenu-based interface.

Susan Lauber continued[8] with Part 2 of a series on improving the 
Fedora Wiki: "Using Special pages to assist with wiki cleanup."

Gary Benson published[9] an excellent introductory article on the 
history and reasoning behind Zero and Shark at java.net. Gary also 
wrote[10] a tutorial on Instrumenting Zero and Shark.

Jeroen van Meeuwen posted[11] an opinion piece on "Why the Open Source 
Channel Alliance is bad for Free Software". Jeroen also mentioned[12] 
that "Starting in July...I'll be mentoring a workshop on Office and 
Infrastructure IT entirely based on Free Software and Open Source 
technology..."

Martin Sourada chronicled[13] his preferred desktop applications 
(including background information on why each program is used) to ensure 
that he can run a FLOSS desktop using Fedora.

Paul W. Frields was interviewed[14] about Fedora and RHEL by Randal 
Schwartz and Leo Laporte at Twit.tv.

    1. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/05/24/earth-to-matt/
    2. 
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10244853-16.html?part=rss&subj=TheOpenRoad
    3. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/05/17/oss-pitfalls/
    4. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html
    5. http://james-morris.livejournal.com/41591.html
    6. 
http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-virtualization-reality.html
    7. 
http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/05/26/face-transplants-are-the-new-botox/
    8. 
http://travelingtrainer.laubersolutions.com/2009/05/using-special-pages-to-assist-with-wiki.html
    9. http://gbenson.net/?p=137
   10. http://gbenson.net/?p=138
   11. http://kanarip.livejournal.com/14584.html
   12. http://kanarip.livejournal.com/14756.html
   13. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-desktop.html
   14. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2481

-- 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 ---

There was no Test Day last week, as we are deep in the Fedora 11 final 
release run-up.

Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is too close to 
the scheduled release of Fedora 11 for any testing to produce results 
directly in Fedora 11 final release, but if you would like to propose a 
test day which could result in changes for post-release updates, or an 
early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC.


--- Weekly meetings ---

The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-05-27. The full log is 
available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had again not yet 
remembered to ask the Bugzilla team to add a link to the Fedora bug 
workflow page.

James Laska reported that he was still not yet ready to send out a Test 
Day feedback survey to previous participants, but continued to work on it.

John Poelstra reported that he had updated the current Fedora 12 
schedule[3].

Will Woods reported that he had added a test case for upgrading from one 
Fedora release to the next with an encrypted root partition[4].

The group discussed how to handle the installation test result matrix 
wiki page[5] between release candidate revisions. James Laska committed 
to work out his best solution and send it to the mailing list.

Adam Williamson reported that the cleaning and revising of the Fedora 11 
Common Bugs page[6] was complete. James Laska added that he had as 
promised been adding significant installation issues to the page. Adam 
said that he had added the X.org issues of which he was aware, and 
sound-related issues. He noted that François Cami had created an initial 
draft of a list of ATI-related issues, but had not yet completed it.

Will Woods clarified that his preferred title in relation to autoqa 
issues is Cap'n Autoqa. The minutes do not relate whether or not there 
is a parrot.

The group reviewed the current status of Fedora 11 GA (final release) 
from its perspective. (Note that this meeting took place before the 
latest delay in the final ship date). They went over the list of 
currently open release blocker bugs, and agreed it seemed possible to 
make the final deadline for initial RC generation with all of the bugs 
at least tentatively resolved. There was detailed discussion of two bugs 
(502077 and 498553). Action plans were developed for both issues to have 
them addressed within the one-day deadline the team was at this point 
working with.

The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-05-26. The full 
log is available[8]. John Poelstra reported on progress of the 
housekeeping changes for Fedora 11's release, and the group agreed that 
he was doing a fine job and should keep it up.

Adam Williamson reported on the progress of the triage metric system. 
Significant progress had been made during the week by the author, 
Brennan Ashton. The system is now fully working on the official Fedora 
infrastructure hosting server[9]. It is currently working with a test 
snapshot of data rather than with the live Bugzilla data, but it should 
already be theoretically capable of working with the live data. The 
project will now enter a tidying-up and beta testing phase during which 
it will be brought up to a state where it can be declared fully usable. 
This should take two weeks or so. The group noted that the list of 
triagers was based on the FAS 'triagers' group, which leads back to the 
existing question of how to rationalize the 'fedorabugs' and 'triagers' 
groups. Brennan will work with Jon Stanley to address this issue.

Adam Williamson also reported on the progress of the proposal to include 
setting the priority / severity fields as part of triage. As no feedback 
opposing the Cepl Method[10] had been received on the mailing list, the 
group agreed that it could now go ahead and adopt this as the official 
method of setting severity at the triage stage. Adam said he would work 
with the Bugzilla team to restrict access to the priority and severity 
fields as had been agreed as part of the proposal, and then adjust all 
the relevant documentation on the Wiki to put the severity policy into 
place.

The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-03 at 1600 UTC in 
#fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-02 at 
1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

    1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
    2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090527
    3. 
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-releng-tasks.html
    4. 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_Upgrade_Encrypted_Root
    5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results
    6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs
    7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings
    8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-May-26
    9. http://publictest14.fedoraproject.org/triageweb/
   10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Beland/Bugzilla_Legend#Proposal_B:

--- Unified Greasemonkey triage script ---

Matej Cepl announced[1] that he had released a new revised and unified 
Greasemonkey script for triagers incorporating all features of all 
previously released scripts. Edward Kirk thanked him for his work[2]. 
Steven Parrish noted[3] that GreaseMonkey did not yet work unmodified 
with the current Firefox 3.5 pre-release as found in Fedora 11. Matej 
suggested[4] the Nightly Tester Tools extension as an easy way to work 
around this limitation.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01131.html
    2. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01132.html
    3. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01163.html
    4. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01174.html

--- Merging Fedora 11 FAQ into other pages ---

Christopher Beland revived[1] the idea of merging the Fedora 11 FAQ[2], 
maintained by Rahul Sundaram, into other pages, as most of its content 
could more appropriately be located in various other places, including 
the Release Notes, Installation Guide, Common Bugs page and other 
places. Rahul explained[3] that he was happy for any content that could 
be moved to a more appropriate place to be removed from the FAQ page. 
The documentation team's Susan Lauber contributed some suggestions[4] on 
other appropriate places the content could be moved to, and in a later 
thread she provided[5] some more useful information on adding 
information to the Release Notes post-freeze.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01226.html
    2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_FAQ
    3. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01228.html
    4. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01246.html
    5. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01328.html

--- Release Candidate testing ---

James Laska announced[1] testing for the first release candidate build 
for Fedora 11 (and, later, for the second[2]). He asked for 
installation-related issues to be reported to the Wiki test matrix 
page[3]. This led indirectly to questions about where to find the 
release candidate images (their location is buried within the matrix 
page in order to try and limit demand for the images) and why release 
candidate images are not more widely promoted and distributed[4]. Jesse 
Keating explained [5] that the amounts of data were too great, the 
available storage and bandwidth resources too small, and the timeframes 
too tight for release candidate images to be meaningfully distributed 
for public testing. He did emphasize[6], however, that the community 
could contribute useful testing through use of the Rawhide repositories 
and installer images, which currently are synchronized with the release 
candidate builds.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01272.html
    2. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01333.html
    3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results
    4. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01308.html
    5. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01309.html
    6. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01286.html

-- Developments --

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the 
@fedora-devel mailing list are summarized.

Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley
-- Would You Like to Write This Beat ?

Following this issue (FWN#178) I will, with regret, no longer be 
covering the @fedora-devel list. If you are interested in writing this 
weekly summary of the deeds and doings on the list then please contact 
fedora-news-list at redhat.com or Pascal Calarco. A short overview of what 
you may need to do can be obtained by reading the workflow[1] section of 
the wiki. The @fedora-news list is also extremely open and helpful. 
Joining[2] the News Project is quite straightforward.

    1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/WorkFlow
    2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/NewsProject/Join

--- Is gNaughty a Hot Babe ? ---

Rahul Sundaram posted[1] the results of a survey conducted, primarily on 
@fedora-list and on the forums, to discover which 
non-repository-packaged software Fedora consumers were using.

One interesting point is that CMUCL[2] was revealed[3] to be only 
available for 32-bit systems. However what got people really excited 
was[4] Rahul's question about what to do concerning the gNaughty 
package. Its sole purpose seemed[5] to be downloading pornography. Rahul 
referenced the hot-babe CPU monitor which enjoyed controversy in Debian 
packaging circles due to its use of female nudity. Rahul wanted to find 
out "[...] is this allowed in Fedora?"

Amusingly a good deal of the controversy focused on whether the content 
was freely redistributable, but a predictable moral angle was raised[6] 
by Muayyad AlSadi who asked for help in producing a spin which removed 
content deemed objectionable. Muayyad is a Jordanian developer who has 
been producing an Arabic-localized Fedora spin named "Ojuba" for some 
time. Muayyad sought a way to make identifying and tagging packages 
easier to facilitate this spin. Bill Nottingham was[7] skeptical about 
the chances of tags keeping meaning unless there was some sort of review 
board. Equally predictable was[8] the reaction typified by Seth Vidal 
which resisted any attempt to restrict packages according to standards 
which had nothing to do with licensing or patent issues. Mathieu Bridon 
thought[9] that the creation of a wiki-page by Muayyad would allow 
anyone interested in co-ordinating work on "Inappropriate Content" to 
just go ahead and do it without dragging in bureaucracy.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02071.html
    2. One of the Common Lisp implementations: http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
    3. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02088.html
    4. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02136.html
    5. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02203.html
    6. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02242.html
    7. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02312.html
    8. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02295.html
    9. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02355.html

--- Chrome9 Vx800 Graphics Support on LiveUSB ---

Kristaps Viesalgs asked[1] for help in getting the Fedora Live USB to 
boot correctly on a machine using a Via Vx800 "Chrome9" GPU. Kristaps 
had some success with the latest upstream version (from their subversion 
repository) and asked: "Is there any brutal option how to properly boot 
X with vesa driver, install Fedora, then make openchrome svn 
installation? Is Fedora planning to make for VIA graphic chipset 
autoconfiguration utility?"

Adam Jackson asked[2] for a more specific bug report because the chip 
should be supported. He preferred not to ship an autoconfiguration 
utility instead of just getting the driver correct. Similar points were 
made by Adam Williamson and [[User:|Xavier Bachelot]]. The latter 
asked[3] any interested developers to help out the openchrome project in 
both the 2D and 3D(Gallium) sides.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02146.html
    2. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02154.html
    3. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02163.html

--- Who Wants a Pony? ---

Kushal Das promised[1] a pony to anyone that would take the trouble to 
review[2] one of his packages.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02139.html
    2. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503021

--- Firestarter Retired as Unportable to PolicyKit ---

Adam Miller asked[1] whether he should just retire the Firestarter[2] 
package for which he had recently become the maintainer. His query was 
based on the recent filing of RFEs to integrate Firestarter with 
PolicyKit. These suggested to Adam that a large amount of work would be 
needed due to the lack of any upstream activity for four years and the 
need to grok PolicyKit.

Following confirmation from Rahul Sundaram and Seth Vidal a decision was 
made[3] by Adam: "I would honestly rather retire the package than do a 
WONTFIX, if the project as a whole is going the direction of PolicyKit 
and upstream is dead then I don't want to keep old and busted cruft 
around the repositories as Fedora continues to look towards the future."

A further suggestion from "Cry" prompted[4] Adam to start filing RFEs 
against system-config-firewall for any features present in Firestarter 
but missing in system-config-firewall.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02089.html
    2. Firestarter is a firewall configuration GUI
    3. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02094.html
    4. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02122.html

--- Russian Fedora ? ---

When Peter Lemenkov asked[1] about the idea of creating a Fedora 
Foundation outside of the U.S.A. the usual arguments from the past few 
years were rehashed. Kevin Kofler gave[2] an able summary why this would 
still present Red Hat with a problem.

An assertion by [[User:|Alexey Torkhov]] that there existed[3] a Red 
Hat-sanctioned "RussianFedora" spin which contained mp3 codecs and other 
material excluded from the actual Fedora Project repositories drew 
demands for proof from Rahul Sundaram.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02013.html
    2. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02025.html
    3. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02390.html

--- Will FESCo Revisit Kmods ? ---

A discussion of why VirtualBox will not be a feature due to its code not 
yet heading upstream and consequently remaining as kmods drew a 
statement of support from Kevin Kofler for reverting the current banning 
of kmods should he become a FESCo member. Upon request from Richard W.M. 
Jones for a dispassionate summary of the reasons to avoid kmods drew[1] 
a concise response from Seth Vidal.

Adam Williamson and Matt Domsch (Dell's DKMS mastermind) kicked[2] some 
ideas back and forth over the advantages of akmods versus kmods.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02254.html
    2. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02368.html

--- Upgrade from Fedora 10 to Rawhide (Fedora 11) ---
Following a report from Uwe Kiewel that a yum upgrade had spewed all 
sorts of errors the supported methods for upgrades were re-stated[1] by 
Adam Williamson: "[I]f you talk to the people most involved in 
implementing it (Seth) and testing it (Will) they will tell you that 
doing live upgrades via yum can't really ever be 100% safe for various 
reasons, but preupgrade can get very close and is useful in all the same 
cases. So their position is, we support preupgrade, we don't support 
yum. If yum works, great, if it doesn't, you can bug people to fix 
whatever it stopping it working, but it's not 'required' by any policy 
or guideline."

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02041.html

-- Translation --

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) 
Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee

    1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N

--- Fedora Websites test instance ---

Ricky Zhou set up a preview test instance[1] with the translations for 
the Fedora web pages, updated for Fedora 11[2]. At present, the Leonidas 
image banner is not functional and an alternate text in english is 
displayed. Some configuration related errors caused the translated 
versions of the pages in a few languages to not preview correctly. These 
were later fixed by Ricky. Any updates to the translations automatically 
show up on the test site within one hour.

    1. http://publictest1.fedoraproject.org/
    2. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00152.html

--- New members in FLP ---

Claudia Pascu joined the Romanian translation team this week[1].

    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00188.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: David Nalley

--- Fedora 10 Security Advisories ---

     * kernel-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01126.html
     * squirrelmail-1.4.19-1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01202.html
     * wireshark-1.0.8-1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01213.html
     * jetty-5.1.15-3.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01262.html
     * libwmf-0.2.8.4-18.1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01266.html
     * php-Smarty-2.6.25-1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01274.html
     * freetype1-1.4-0.8.pre.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01316.html
     * eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01337.html
     * acpid-1.0.6-11.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html
     * ntp-4.2.4p7-1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01414.html
     * opensc-0.11.8-1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01420.html
     * maniadrive-1.2-13.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01451.html
     * php-5.2.9-2.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01452.html 


--- Fedora 9 Security Advisories ---

     * wireshark-1.0.8-1.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01167.html
     * squirrelmail-1.4.19-1.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01195.html
     * jetty-5.1.15-3.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01257.html
     * libwmf-0.2.8.4-18.1.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01269.html
     * kernel-2.6.27.24-78.2.53.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01271.html
     * php-Smarty-2.6.25-1.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01283.html
     * eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01333.html

-+- end FWN #178 -+-




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