Fedora Weekly News Issue 47
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-05-22
This issue is also available in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Polish
Welcome to our issue number 47 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Red Hat Magazine May 2006
Issue #19 of Red Hat Magazine has been published at http://www.redhat.com/magazine/
According to the Editor's blog (http://blogs.redhat.com/magazine/archives/000244.html):
This month, we shifted our publication schedule around a bit to accommodate a couple of pieces about a hot topic in biz-think circles. The theory du jour is all about creative, collaborative, and open environments... the same kind of environment that creates Linux and exists in open source projects around the world. It's called "design thinking."
Make sure to check out Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Part 1 of 4: Primary objectives (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/019may06/features/fedora_rhel_1/) by Tim Burke and Release early, release often: Why? (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/019may06/features/blizzard/) - a Podcast of Interview for Chris Blizzard (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristopherBlizzard) by Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg).
Changing the way that Development lands
Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-May/msg00010.html):
Much to the same tune as how I changed the way FC lands on mirrors, I'd like to change how development lands. Development would land much in the same way as Core, it would just be missing some files that Core does. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewDevelopmentLayout for detailed information.
Here is a clarification (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-May/msg00011.html).
New ticketing system for the Fedora Project
Mike McGrath (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MikeMcGrath) announces in FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/955):
The (Fedora) infrastructure (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure) team has released a new ticketing system for infrastructure related issues and requests. Users can find it at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/
Using the Open Ticket Request System (OTRS), users can now notify the infrastructure team about issues regarding the accounting system, build system, network, email and just about any other Fedora related infrastructure issues. System related feature requests can also be created. Ultimately we will be parsing many of the system/admin email accounts (like admin@fedoraproject.org) through this system.
Fedora Board chair looks ahead
According to recent article published by NewsForge (http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/05/15/1729249.shtml):
"Fedora today is a good example of how to have a project that serves the interests of a company that also is valuable and gives value to community members." So says Max Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack), chairman of the Fedora Board (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board), the new governing body for the Fedora Project.
Looking beyond the Fedora community, Spevack says he would like to see closer ties with other FOSS communities. He talks, a bit wistfully, of getting representatives of different distributions together to talk about issues such as common package management. After all, he says, "it's the open source mentality that we are all champions of. Different distributions are just different interpretations of that mentality."
Documentation leadership grows
Karsten Wade (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KarstenWade) points out in his blog (http://iquaid.livejournal.com/9378.html):
In our meeting today, the Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee) (FDSCo) voted-in two members of the community as committee members and all that entails.
Bob Jensen (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen) is a founder/leader in the Fedora Unity (http://fedoraunity.org/) movement, and recently took over as Editor-in-Chief of the Fedora release notes beats (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats). In this role, he is already ahead of our job from last time, learning from our mistakes, and getting an early start on driving the (Documentation) schedule (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule). Bob is found under various *Bob* nicks on #fedora-docs on irc.freenode.net.
Hugo Cisneiros (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HugoCisneiros) is active in the Software Livre movement in Brazil and a leader of the Projeto Fedora Brasil (http://www.projetofedora.org/). His other Fedora roles are as an Ambassador (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors), a writer and translator, and all around organizer. Hugo is Eitch on #fedora-docs.
The gift that keeps on giving
Paul W. Frields (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields) points out in his blog (http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=666):
This Sponsored Media (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia) initiative is a great way to show your support for the project if you don’t have time to give but you’ve got an extra few dollars burning a hole in your pocket. People are always asking Fedora Project folks, “Can I donate money to Fedora like I do to, say, the Free Software Foundation?” Well, here’s the answer. When you give this gift, who knows how many people you’re helping? These discs are physical items that can be passed from person to person, used and reused.
Unofficial FAQ Update: 2006-05-11
Max Kanat-Alexander (mailto:max_list@fedorafaq.org) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-May/msg00009.html):
Since the Fedora Core 5 update of the Unofficial Fedora FAQ, we've had various bits of feedback and improvements to the FAQ. So today we have some updates to the FAQ for you: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ This is mostly a "polish" update, making everything shiny and bright, and revising the instructions to work the best possible...Also, we have some translations that are ready for FC5, now: German, French, Polish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese!
Phoronix: Fedora Rawhide 2006-05-16
Photonix published a complete set of screenshots for Fedora Rawhide 2006-05-16 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=473&num=1) to show you the current development status toward Fedora Core 6 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule).
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-05-15
We have a new effort in place to report The Board news as well as Meeting Minutes from each sub-project for Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-05-15
As always, the latest issue of Fedora Weekly Reports can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports
Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
During the week of May 15 - May 21, Fedora Project released 07 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 03 Security Advisory.
During the week of May 15 - May 21, Fedora Project released 29 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 04 Security Advisory.
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