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Rawhide package gating — phase I begins

July 24, 2019 / pingou / 1 Comment

On July 25th we will turn on the first phase of Rawhide package gating: single build updates. In a later phase, Rawhide updates that contain multiple builds will also be enabled for gating. Our goal is to improve our ability to continuously turn out a useful Fedora OS. So we hope and expect to get opt-in from as many Fedora package maintainers as possible, including maintainers of the base OS. But this phase of gating remains opt-in, and should not affect packagers who choose for now not to opt in.

Fedora Happiness Packets - project update

Outreachy FHP week 7: Pytest, UI enhancements, FAS search

July 23, 2019 / alishapapun / 0 Comments

This is part of a recurring series between May – August 2019 on the Community Blog about Fedora Happiness Packets. These posts are published as part of a series of prompts from the Outreachy program.

From Outreachy.org: The theme for this week is “Modifying Expectations”. Outreachy mentors and interns start the internship with a specific set of project goals. However, usually those goals need to be modified, and that’s perfectly fine! Delays to projects happen. Maybe your project turned out to be more complicated than you or your mentor anticipated. Maybe you needed to learn some concepts before you could tackle project tasks. Maybe the community documention wasn’t up-to-date or was wrong. These are all perfectly valid reasons for projects to be a bit behind schedule, as long as you’ve been working full-time on the project. In fact, free and open source contributors have to deal with these kinds of issues all the time. Projects often seem simple until you start working on them. Project timelines are ususally a very optimistic view of what could happen if everything goes exactly as planned. It often doesn’t, but people still make optimistic plans. Modifying your project timeline to set more realistic goals is a skill all contributors need to learn.

Your goal for this week’s blog post is to write a report about your progress on your project. Talk about what you accomplished so far. Talk about what goals too more time than expected. The blog post should also detail what your modified goals for the second half of the internship is.

Contribute at the Fedora Test Week for kernel 5.2

July 18, 2019 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.2. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. This version has many security fixes included. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, July 22, 2019 through Monday, July 29, 2019. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details.

How does a test week work?

A test day/week is an event where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed before, this is a perfect way to get started.

To contribute, you only need to be able to do the following things:

Download test materials, which include some large files
Read and follow directions step by step

The wiki page for the kernel test day has a lot of good information on what and how to test. After you’ve done some testing, you can log your results in the test day web application. If you’re available on or around the day of the event, please do some testing and report your results.

Happy testing, and we hope to see you on test day.

Application service categories and community handoff

July 16, 2019 / lgriffin / 3 Comments

The Community Platform Engineering (CPE) team recently wrote about our face-to-face meeting where we developed a team mission statement and developed a framework for making our workload more manageable. Having more focus will allow us to progress higher priority work for multiple stakeholders and move the needle on more initiatives in a more efficient manner than how we are working right now.

During the F2F we walked through the process of how to gracefully remove ourselves from applications that are not fitting our mission statement. The next couple of months will be a transition phase as we want to ensure continuity and cause minimum disruption to the community. To assist in that strategy, we analysed our applications and came up with four classifications to which they could belong.

Fedora Program Manager weekly report on Fedora Project development and progress

FPgM report: 2019-28

July 12, 2019 / Ben Cotton / 0 Comments

Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week. I am on PTO the week of 15 July, so there will be no FPgM report or FPgM office hours next week.

I have 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

Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Flock registration is open. See you in Budapest!
Submissions now open for the Fedora 31 supplemental wallpapers through July 26
FESCo meetings are moving to Mondays beginning 22 July. There will be no meeting the week of 15 July.

Upcoming meetings

Fedora 31

Schedule

2019-07-23 — Self-contained changes due
2019-07-24–08-13 — Mass rebuild
2019-08-13 — Code complete (testable) deadline
2019-08-13 — Fedora 31 branch point

Changes

Announced

Submitted to FESCo

Golang 1.13 (FESCo ticket #2165)
Gawk 5.0.1 (FESCo ticket #2167)
DNF Make Best Mode the Default (FESCo ticket #2168)
Qt Wayland By Default On Gnome (FESCo ticket #2169)
Limit Scriptlet Usage of core packages (FESCo ticket #2172)
Boost 1.70 upgrade (FESCo ticket #2173)
Automatic R runtime dependencies (FESCo ticket #2174)
IBus 1.5.21 (FESCo ticket #2175)
Langpacks-core for i18n functionality (FESCo ticket #2176)
Modify Fedora 31 to use CgroupsV2 by default (FESCo ticket #2177)

Approved by FESCo

GCI 2018 mentor’s summit @ Google headquarters

July 11, 2019 / Vipul Siddharth / 0 Comments

Context

Google Code-in is a contest to introduce students (ages 13-17) to open source software development. Since 2010, 8,108 students from 107 countries have completed over 40,100 open source tasks Because Google Code-in is often the first experience many students have with open source, the contest is designed to make it easy for students to jump right in. I was one of the mentors in this first time for Fedora program. We had 125 students participating in Fedora and the top 3 students completed 26, 25 and 22 tasks each.

Every year Google invites the Grand-Prize winners and their parents, and a mentor to it’s headquarters in San Francisco, California for a 4 days trip. I was offered the opportunity to go and represent Fedora in the summit and meet these 2 brilliant folks in person. This report covers activities and other things that happened there.

Call for Fedora Women’s Day 2019 proposals

July 9, 2019 / pyadav / 0 Comments

Fedora Women’s Day (FWD) is a day to celebrate and bring visibility to female contributors in open source projects, including Fedora. This event is headed by Fedora’s Diversity and Inclusion Team.

During the month of September, in collaboration with other open source communities, women in tech groups and hacker spaces, we plan to organize community meetups and events around the world to highlight and celebrate the women in open source communities like Fedora and their invaluable contributions to their projects and community.

These events also provide a good opportunity for women worldwide to learn about free and open source software and jump start their journey as a FOSS user and/or a contributor. They also provide a platform for women to connect, learn and be inspired by other women in open source communities and beyond.

We are looking forward to applications for organizing FWD-2019, go ahead and submit applications and help us in organizing this event in various locations in the world.

FPgM report: 2019-27

July 5, 2019 / Ben Cotton / 0 Comments

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

I have weekly office hours in #fedora-meetnig-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

A Closer Look at Fedora Projects

July 2, 2019 / alishapapun / 0 Comments

What is the Fedora Project?

The Fedora Project is a community of people working together to build free and open source software platform and to collaborate on and share user-focused solutions built on that platform. It makes an operating system and make it easy for people to do useful stuff with it.

Actually, they produce several operating systems, or editions. The one that new contributors are most likely to be interested in, and focused on, is Fedora Workstation. Fedora Workstation has a wide range of software that’s suitable for almost anyone. All of the software provided with Fedora is open source and free to download and use.

FPgM report: 2019-26

June 28, 2019 / Ben Cotton / 1 Comment