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Fedora Weekly News Issue 230

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 230[1] for the week ending June 16, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.


The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news@lists.fedoraproject.org

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue230
  2. ↑ http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

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

Luke Slater mentioned[1] that "we've recently acquired the username 'Fedora' on Twitter and we're using this event as the catalyst to start Fedora's foray into the world of Microblogging (or relaunch it, perhaps...). We're currently deciding on what exactly to do in respect to this and a discussion took place in the Fedora Marketing meeting this Tuesday..."

Rahul Sundaram announced[2] that three new features have been approved for Fedora 14: More content in live images, faster picture browsing (replacing libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo) and Multi-path device support including bootup.

Michael DeHaan suggested[3] a way to use Google Analytics to help track down (and presumably fix) common error messages.

John Palmier provided[4] an update on the status of Multitouch in Fedora.

Richard W.M. Jones found[5] that Linux now has a set of APIs for freezing ("Quiescing") filesystems.

Venkatesh Hariharan posted[6] an excerpt from Flash Co-Creator Jonathan Gay, discussing "the challenges they faced in using H.264 standard."

Ian Weller discussed[7] how Fedora metrics are tracked, and the process of releasing the (anonymized) raw data that was used to produce the final statistics.

Clint Savage is trying to comabt[8] apathy, which "is what kills communities around the globe" and how to get people to contribute back.

  1. ↑ http://dinosaur-os.com/post/691754809/fedora-microblogging
  2. ↑ http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/fedora-14-three-new-features/
  3. ↑ http://michaeldehaan.net/2010/06/09/googling-for-error-messages/
  4. ↑ http://www.j5live.com/2010/06/09/multitouch-working-in-fedora/
  5. ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/freezing-filesystems/
  6. ↑ http://osindia.blogspot.com/2010/06/challenges-in-using-proprietary.html
  7. ↑ http://ianweller.org/2010/06/10/datanommer-making-fedora-metrics-more-transparent/
  8. ↑ http://sexysexypenguins.com/2010/06/08/combatting-apathy-in-free-and-open-source-communities-part-2/

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Design Team IRC Meeting

Máirín Duffy announced[1] the regular IRC meeting of the Design Team "Just a friendly reminder our second weekly meeting is at 7 PM UTC today in #fedora-design on irc.freenode.net" and after the meeting she published[2] the minutes[3], the meeting covered: website redesign, progress for Fedora 14 artwork, the tickets queue and the new biweekly bounties.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002629.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002634.html
  3. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-06-15/fedora-design.2010-06-15-19.08.html

Sparkle Share

Máirín Duffy pointed[1] to Sparkle Share, a tool in development which may make easier to share the works inside the Design Team "I think we should try using this when it's first released! ", Nicu Buculei objected[2] about using Mono "Hope some brave souls will do to it what other brave souls did to Tomboy with Gnote" while other members, like Jayme Ayres showed enthusiasm[3] "I loved the idea. Currently I use the Dropbox and is very useful for me to manage my work files and laptop!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002615.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002617.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002625.html

Security Advisories

In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 13 Security Advisories

Fedora 12 Security Advisories

Fedora 11 Security Advisories

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