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Fedora 33 Kernel 5.9 Test Day

Test Day: Fedora Silverblue

April 2, 2019 / / Comments Off on Test Day: Fedora Silverblue

Why test Fedora Silverblue

Fedora Silverblue is a new variant of Fedora Workstation with rpm-ostree at its core to provide fully atomic upgrades. Furthermore, Fedora Silverblue is immutable and upgrades as a whole, providing easy rollbacks from updates if something goes wrong. Fedora Silverblue is great for developers using Fedora with good support for container-focused workflows.

Additionally, Fedora Silverblue delivers desktop applications as Flatpaks. This provides better isolation/sandboxing of applications, and streamlines updating applications — Flatpaks can be safely updated without reboot.
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GNOME Project

GNOME 3.30: “Almería”: Updates and Improvements You Might Not Know

April 2, 2019 / / Comments Off on GNOME 3.30: “Almería”: Updates and Improvements You Might Not Know

On September 5, 2018 GNOME project announced the release of GNOME 3.30.

Version 3.30 contains six months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements and new features.

This release features some significant performance improvements. The entire desktop now uses fewer system resources, which means you can run more apps at once.

Fun Fact: 3.30 has been named “Almería” in recognition of this year’s GUADEC organizing team. GUADEC is GNOME’s primary annual conference which was held in Almería, Spain this year.

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Fedora Program Manager weekly report on Fedora Project development and progress

FPgM report: 2019-13

March 29, 2019 / / Comments Off on FPgM report: 2019-13

Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week.

Fedora 30 Beta is GO! I’ve set up weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

Announcements

Meetings and test days

Fedora 30 Status

Fedora 30 Beta was declared GO. It will be released at 10:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, 2 April 2019. The Fedora 30 GA is scheduled for 30 April 2019.

Schedule

  • 2019-04-02 — Beta release
  • 2019-04-02 — Beta freeze ends
  • 2019-04-16 — Final freeze begins
  • 2019-04-30 — Final preferred target
  • 2019-05-07 — Final target date #1

Blocker bugs

Bug IDBlocker statusComponentBug Status
1692323Accepted (Beta)
qemuVERIFIED
1683197
Proposed (Final)gdmASSIGNED
1691909
Proposed (Final)gdmNEW
1690429Accepted (Final)gnome-shellNEW
1688462
Accepted (Final)libdfnNEW
1693388
Accepted (Final)libreofficeMODIFIED
1693397Accepted (Final)moby-engineMODIFIED
1688082Accepted (Final)mutterVERIFIED
1688082Accepted (Final)systemdNEW
1674045Accepted (Final)systemdNEW

Fedora 31 Status

Changes

Announced

Submitted to FESCo

Rejected by FESCo

Fedora Happiness Packets - project update

My Outreachy 2019 experience with Fedora Happiness Packets: Contribution phase

March 29, 2019 / / Comments Off on My Outreachy 2019 experience with Fedora Happiness Packets: Contribution phase

Firstly, what’s Outreachy?

Outreachy is a program that provides internships to work in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Outreachy internships are open to applicants around the world. Interns work remotely, and are not required to move. Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 USD for the three month internship. Interns have a $500 USD travel stipend to attend conferences or events.

How did I get into it?

I was looking for a remote job (more on this in another blog) and have been applying to many positions that I thought I would fit in. If you have applied to jobs, you would know that this process is not very forgiving. Most of the applications had no response, and some others already had the positions filled (I don’t know why was the job listing not taken down 😕).

During this process I was actively learning new things, mostly JS based since my basic stack is HTML-CSS-JS. So I was learning NodeJs, MongoDB, React to build up my skill-set and get better at what I want to do.

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The Fedora Project community

Fedora Kernel and i18n Test Day: PICT College

March 28, 2019 / / Comments Off on Fedora Kernel and i18n Test Day: PICT College

Planning

We met for 2 meeting instances to plan this college meetup, once on 30th August 2018 and then again on 3rd September 2018 in Red Hat office. This event was planned as an alternative to the September Fedora Pune Meetup. We decided to do something different this time by executing a recent Fedora 29 test day with a room full of students of Computer department in the PICT college of Pune. Professor Mayur was our point of contact in the college and we had shared the Fedora 29 image under test with him. He ensured students have it installed on their respective systems before the actual test day. Pravin Satpute from Red hat helped us with coordination with the college. Kaushik Banerjee arranged for few Fedora and Red Hat badges to distribute among the attending students. The event took place on Friday, 7th September 2018.

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Outreachy 2019 with Fedora Happiness Packets: application period

Outreachy 2019 with Fedora Happiness Packets: application period

March 26, 2019 / / Comments Off on Outreachy 2019 with Fedora Happiness Packets: application period

Outreachy provides remote internship under Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Communities to the under represented groups in technology. It runs twice an year, mid-year and end of year. I decided to participate in its summer run.

Why Outreachy?

Before I get into anything, as a rule of thumb, I ask myself why? Why is it that I wanted to participate in Outreachy?

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Fedora at SCaLE 17x (2019) Event Report – Pasadena, California

March 26, 2019 / / Comments Off on Fedora at SCaLE 17x (2019) Event Report – Pasadena, California

At a Glance: What is SCaLE?

The Fedora Ambassadors gathered statistical feedback from attendees and distributed swag items during SCaLE’s four-day expo.

  • Frequency of the release cycle past Fedora Release 29 trended with guests.
  • Peak visitor days were Friday and Saturday.
  • We collected detailed information for our various Fedora teams. Roll-up found below.

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Call for test days

Fedora 30 Modularity Test Day 2019-03-26

March 22, 2019 / / Comments Off on Fedora 30 Modularity Test Day 2019-03-26

Tuesday, 2019-03-26  is the Fedora 30  Modularity Test Day!
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Fedora Program Manager weekly report on Fedora Project development and progress

FPgM report: 2019-12

March 22, 2019 / / Comments Off on FPgM report: 2019-12

Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week.

Fedora 30 Beta is No-Go. Another Go/No-Go meeting will be held on Thursday. I’ve set up weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. The Fedora 30 Beta Go/No-Go and Release Readiness meetings are next week.

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Fedora Happiness Packets - project update

FAS username search in Fedora Happiness Packets

March 22, 2019 / / Comments Off on FAS username search in Fedora Happiness Packets

I have been recently working on incorporation of Fedora Accounts System’s username search functionality in the project “Fedora Happiness Packets”. After weeks of working, it’s so overwhelming to see its on the verge of completion and being incorporated in the project.

About the project

The search functionality is used to find the name and email address of Fedora Accounts System’s users from their username, making it a lot easier for any sender to send happiness packets to a particular user with the knowledge of just their username.

Getting started with python-fedora API

For incorporating the search, python-fedora API is used to retrieve the data. After authenticating as a genuine fas-user by passing credentials to AccountSystem, we can retrieve the data using the method person_by_username of a fas2 object.

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