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Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2021-10

March 12, 2021 / Ben Cotton / Comments Off

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! The Beta freeze is underway. F34 Beta release candidate 1 was declared no-go. The Fedora Linux 34 Beta Go/No-Go meeting is Thursday. We will target the “target date #1” milestone of 23 March.

I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

Remember that many locations are changing to/from summer time in the next few weeks.

Announcements
Calls for Participation
Help wanted
Upcoming meetings
Releases

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“Houston, we have video”: Matrix video calls on the PinePhone

March 11, 2021 / mschwarz / Comments Off

The Fedora Mobility SIG is working to get Fedora Linux working on mobile device. This includes the PinePhone, a smartphone built with open hardware. Many distros are working to add support for the features that smartphone users expect, including video calls. I was able to use Firefox as a fully-featured Matrix client to make video calls.

Introducing the new Fedora Accounts

March 10, 2021 / Ryan Lerch / 8 Comments

Every Fedora contributor is familiar with FAS (the Fedora Account System), and has used it to create and manage their Fedora Contributor Account. The current “FAS2” system was first deployed in 2008, and has managed Fedora users and groups for over 13 years.

The FAS2 software, however, is showing it’s age. It has proved increasingly hard for the Fedora Infrastructure team to support and maintain.

Fedora is a community; Fedora Linux is our OS

March 9, 2021 / Matthew Miller / 15 Comments

When I talk about the Fedora Project, I’m talking about you: the community. The Linux distribution we make is great, but the community is the key. When people say “Fedora” without a qualifier, I’d like them to think “Fedora Project”, not the bits we produce. What’s more, we make more than just one thing — EPEL, for example, plus artwork, documentation, websites, and tools which aren’t tightly tied to the OS itself.

Over the years, we haven’t done a great job of drawing this distinction. Now, let’s be more intentional with our language.

Contribute at the Fedora 34 IoT Edition Test Day

March 8, 2021 / sumantrom / Comments Off

Fedora test days are events 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 to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. On Wednesday, March 10, we’ll test Fedora IoT.

Contribute to Fedora Kernel 5.11 Test Week

March 7, 2021 / sumantrom / Comments Off

The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.11. This version was recently released and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, March 08, 2021 through Monday, March 15, 2021. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details.

Fedora CoreOS

Test Week: Internationalization (i18n) features for Fedora 34

March 7, 2021 / sumantrom / Comments Off

All this week, we will be testing internationalization (i18n) features in Fedora 34. Those are as follows:

kasumi-unicode: — kasumi-unicode will be generated newly with kasumi.spec in kasumi project.
ibus-anthy for default Japanese IME:— The current default Japanese IME(input method engine) is ibus-kkc and the default is going to change to ibus-anthy to develop Japanese IME more effectively.
ibus-m17n as default Sinhala IME :— The current default input method for Sinhala is ibus-sayura. This should change to the ibus-m17n input method “m17n:si:sayura – sayura (m17n)”
ibus-unikey as default Vietnamese IME :— This recommended default input method for Vietnamese will be changed from ibus-bogo to ibus-unikey
EnableHarfBuzzInFreeType :— Goal of this feature is to enable usage of HarfBuzz in FreeType to improve hinting of glyphs of languages which needs more complicated text shaping.
IBus 1.5.24 :— IBus will provide GTK4 IM module and enhance ibus-setup to search input method names more easily.

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Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2021-09

March 5, 2021 / Ben Cotton / Comments Off

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! The Beta freeze is underway. The Fedora Linux 34 Beta Go/No-Go meeting is Thursday.

Announcements
Calls for Participation
Help wanted
Upcoming meetings
Releases

Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash.

Community Blog monthly summary: February 2021

March 4, 2021 / Ben Cotton / Comments Off

This is the latest in our monthly series summarizing the past month on the Community Blog. Please leave a comment below to let me know what you think.

Fedora Code of Conduct Report 2020

March 2, 2021 / riecatnor / 1 Comment

The Fedora Project’s Code of Conduct and reports are managed by the Fedora Project Leader (FPL), Matthew Miller, and the Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator (FCAIC), Marie Nordin, as well as the Red Hat legal team, when appropriate.

In 2020 we had more than two times the number of CoC reports when compared to 2019. Due to dedicating a lot of time and effort to these situations, we spent a significant amount of time trying to understand why this was happening at these rates. We came up with a couple of theories.