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'''TOP MOST Announcements and Fedora 12 (Constantine) are as follows''':  
'''THE BREAKING news (Fedora 12 (Constantine) related) are as follows''':  


===Fedora Board IRC Public meeting===
===New channel on freenode called #fedora-fad===


"The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode.", announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00001.html</ref> Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields. For this meeting, the public was invited to join the IRC channels #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation and #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and to post questions. While inviting everyone, Paul also expressed, "The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as
Gerold Kassube announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00006.html</ref> the new IRC-Channel #fedora-fad which is opened right now for everybody to attend a FAD (== Fedora Activity Day) online. Gerold mentioned, “I created that channel, because of some people asked (also in the past) about who cann't attend a FAD. The next FAD in EMEA takes place (again and by tradition) in Rheinfelden, Germany on the next weekend <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2009</ref>.
appropriate." 
” 


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===Help with Fedora Research ===
===All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze (2009-09-29)===


Greg DeKoenigsberg, Senior Community Architect at Red Hat announced <ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00002.html</ref>
John Poelstra had explicitly announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00008.html</ref> that All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze by Tuesday, September 29th, 2009.
, "we're looking for Fedora contributors who are willing to do one of two things:


1. Participate in an email interview with our Duke professors; or
Beta Freeze <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy</ref> means that all features and their associated feature pages must be at 100% completion by this date. The following features are currently not 100% complete and need to be by Tuesday, September 29, 2009. In many cases it appears they are just 1% away.  
2. Participate in a short phone interview (about 20 minutes) with our Duke professors."


Greg also explored about the participation of contributors. He expressed, "It's a simple thing that could be hugely valuable in the long run. We've got something special in Fedora, and the world wants to understand how it works. Your experiences matter." All the interested participant are requested to response to Greg DeKoenigsberg via email, please.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayPort</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/FCoE</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GFS2ClusteredSamba</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.28</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Huge_Page_Backed_Memory</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/liblvm</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LowerProcessCapabilities</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MoreNetworkManagerMobileBroadband</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NFSv4Default</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageKitBrowserPlugin</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemTapEclipseGUI</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapTracingRefresh</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Thusnelda</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControlContinued</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XI2</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support</ref>
 
 
Poel also mentioned, “I will raise feature pages not at 100% at FESCo's meeting on October 2, 2009. Hopefully my job will be easy and there there won't be any.”


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===New entry of Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction===
===GraphicsMagick-1.3.x for F-11 (ABI change)===


Noriko Mizumoto on development announcement had announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00001.html
Rex Dieter announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00004.html</ref>, “Heads up, I'm working on a GM-1.3.7 update to F-11 which includes an ABI break. I'll be taking care of building/fixing dependent packages (including dvdauthor, koffice).”
</ref>, "Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction". Meanwhile, he also mentioned, "Please notice that amazingly F12 has been translated into 52 language with more than 40% completion so far, and the percentage as well the number of languages are aggressively growing."<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/243</ref><ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00053.html</ref>


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===FUDCon Toronto 2009 update!===


"Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held December 5-7.  Before the details, I want to give some special thanks and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon.  His help made it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week.  Thanks Chris!", widely announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00003.html</ref> by Paul W. Frields.
===Announcing Fedora 12 Snapshot 3===


The FUDCon<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009</ref> wiki page is chock full of details. Here is the major highlights of the announcement:
“Fedora 12 Snapshot 3 is now available for testing. These snapshots
consist of live images only.  These were composed yesterday, and made
available today.” announced Jesse Keating<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00005.html</ref><ref>http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/</ref><ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Jessy requested to report issues in bugzilla.


HELP US PLAN! <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning</ref>
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GENERAL SCHEDULE<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009</ref>
PRE-REGISTRATION<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration</ref>
LODGING <ref>http://bit.ly/fudcon-hgi-toronto-2009</ref>
TECHNICAL SESSIONS <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions</ref>
FUDPUB<ref>http://daveandbusters.com</ref>
HACKFESTS<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Hackfests</ref>


"More information will be forthcoming as it develops!", says Paul while broadcasting the announcements.
===Updating libchamplain to 0.4.0===
Debarshi Ray included<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00006.html</ref>
, “I am going to build libchamplain-0.4.0 for Rawhide in a few hours and this involves a change in the soname that will affect:
+ eog-plugins
+ empathy”


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===RHCE Conference in New York City===
===Fedora 12 Mass Branching coming soon===


On Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 from 9am-1pm, Red Hat will hold a free, informal conference for RHCEs, offering information sharing on a variety of topics at the Rubin Museum in New York City.  Details are available<ref>http://www.redhat.com/rhceloopback</ref>.
Jesse Keating announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00007.html</ref>, “Per the Fedora 12 Schedule<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule</ref>
, mass branching for Fedora 12 will happen on
the 28th of September, which is this coming Monday.  There will be a
short CVS outage associated with this event.  The exact timing of this
outage has not been decided yet, but we will send the outage
notification when it has been decided.”


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Revision as of 14:06, 27 September 2009

Announcements

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

THE BREAKING news (Fedora 12 (Constantine) related) are as follows:

New channel on freenode called #fedora-fad

Gerold Kassube announced[1] the new IRC-Channel #fedora-fad which is opened right now for everybody to attend a FAD (== Fedora Activity Day) online. Gerold mentioned, “I created that channel, because of some people asked (also in the past) about who cann't attend a FAD. The next FAD in EMEA takes place (again and by tradition) in Rheinfelden, Germany on the next weekend [2]. ”

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00006.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2009

All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze (2009-09-29)

John Poelstra had explicitly announced[1] that All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze by Tuesday, September 29th, 2009.

Beta Freeze [2] means that all features and their associated feature pages must be at 100% completion by this date. The following features are currently not 100% complete and need to be by Tuesday, September 29, 2009. In many cases it appears they are just 1% away.

[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]


Poel also mentioned, “I will raise feature pages not at 100% at FESCo's meeting on October 2, 2009. Hopefully my job will be easy and there there won't be any.”

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00008.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayPort
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/FCoE
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio
  6. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GFS2ClusteredSamba
  7. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.28
  8. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Huge_Page_Backed_Memory
  9. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/liblvm
  10. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LowerProcessCapabilities
  11. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MoreNetworkManagerMobileBroadband
  12. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne
  13. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin
  14. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NFSv4Default
  15. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageKitBrowserPlugin
  16. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemTapEclipseGUI
  17. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapTracingRefresh
  18. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Thusnelda
  19. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControlContinued
  20. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XI2
  21. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support

GraphicsMagick-1.3.x for F-11 (ABI change)

Rex Dieter announced[1], “Heads up, I'm working on a GM-1.3.7 update to F-11 which includes an ABI break. I'll be taking care of building/fixing dependent packages (including dvdauthor, koffice).”

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00004.html

Announcing Fedora 12 Snapshot 3

“Fedora 12 Snapshot 3 is now available for testing. These snapshots consist of live images only. These were composed yesterday, and made available today.” announced Jesse Keating[1][2][3] Jessy requested to report issues in bugzilla.

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00005.html
  2. ↑ http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
  3. ↑ http://spins.fedoraproject.org/

Updating libchamplain to 0.4.0

Debarshi Ray included[1] , “I am going to build libchamplain-0.4.0 for Rawhide in a few hours and this involves a change in the soname that will affect: + eog-plugins + empathy”

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00006.html

Fedora 12 Mass Branching coming soon

Jesse Keating announced[1], “Per the Fedora 12 Schedule[2] , mass branching for Fedora 12 will happen on the 28th of September, which is this coming Monday. There will be a short CVS outage associated with this event. The exact timing of this outage has not been decided yet, but we will send the outage notification when it has been decided.”

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00007.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule

Upcoming Events

Mark your agenda with the following events. Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!

  • 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
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