Thursday, January 3, 2013

[FreeBSD-Announce] BSDCan 2013 - call for papers - reminder

BSDCan 2013 will be held 17-18 May, 2013 in Ottawa at the University of
Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 15-16 May.

NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu.

We are now accepting proposals for talks. You have about two weeks left.
See the schedule below.

The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias.
Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not
appropriate for this venue.

If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system,
please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex
system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story
to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your
experience. People using BSD as a platform for research are also
encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include:

* How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam.
* and/or sysadmin.
* and/or networking.

From the BSDCan website, the Archives section will allow you to review
the wide variety of past BSDCan presentations as further examples.

Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences.

The schedule is:

1 Dec 2012 Proposal acceptance begins
19 Jan 2013 Proposal acceptance ends
19 Feb 2013 Confirmation of accepted proposals

See also <http://www.bsdcan.org/2013/papers.php>

Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2013 are available
from: <http://www.bsdcan.org/2013/submissions.php>

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Fedora 18 Final to slip by one week

Today at Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip Fedora 18
release by one week due to unresolved blocker bugs [1]. See
the meeting minutes [2] for more details.

As a result, Fedora 18 will be pushed out by one week with final
release on 2013-01-15. Check current schedule [3].

The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Wednesday, Jan 09. Time will
be announced on Monday.

Please, help us with resolving currently accepted blocker bugs
and review proposed bugs reported to your components.

Thanks
Jaroslav

[1] http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/18/final/buglist
[2] http://bit.ly/VzpMXH
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/Schedule

=============================================
#fedora-meeting-1: F18 Final Go/No-Go meeting
=============================================


Meeting started by jreznik at 17:01:20 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-01-03/f18_final_gono-go_meeting.2013-01-03-17.01.log.html
.

Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll Call (jreznik, 17:01:48)

* Purpose of this meeting (jreznik, 17:07:00)
* Purpose of this meeting is to see whether or not F18 Final is ready
for shipment, according to the release criteria. (jreznik,
17:07:16)
* This is determined in a few ways: (jreznik, 17:07:23)
* No remaining blocker bugs (jreznik, 17:07:30)
* Test matrices for Final are fully completed (jreznik, 17:07:37)
* LINK:
http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/18/final/buglist
(jreznik, 17:07:44)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Final_Release_Criteria
(jreznik, 17:07:49)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test
(jreznik, 17:07:55)
* LINK:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
(jreznik, 17:08:00)
* LINK:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
(jreznik, 17:08:05)

* agenda (jreznik, 17:08:59)

* current status (jreznik, 17:12:40)
* Fedora 18 Final Test Compose (TC4) is available, no release
candidate (RC) yet (jreznik, 17:13:44)
* currently 7 blocker bugs are unresolved (not in
ON_QA/VERIFIED/CLOSED state) based on accepted blocker bug list
(jreznik, 17:14:56)
* 3 proposed blockers (minus the KDE tracking one) (jreznik,
17:15:37)

* "mini" review of accepted/proposed blocker bugs (jreznik, 17:17:56)

* (891443) crash when reusing existing Btrfs volume (adamw, 17:20:20)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891443 (adamw,
17:20:20)
* Proposed Blocker, anaconda, NEW (adamw, 17:20:20)
* AGREED: 891443 is accepted as a blocker per criterion "The
installer's custom partitioning mode must be capable of the
following: Creating, destroying and assigning mount points to
partitions of any specified size using most commonly-used filesystem
types" (adamw, 17:30:01)

* (881624) U.S. keyboard layout used for encryption passphrase entry
during fedup second phase (adamw, 17:30:12)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=881624 (adamw,
17:30:12)
* Proposed Blocker, fedup, NEW (adamw, 17:30:12)
* AGREED: taking into consideration the general tenor of the wider
devel@ discussion, the fact that this is likely documentable and
workaroundable and that it could well be fixed with an update to
f17's fedup, 881624 is rejected as a blocker (adamw, 17:48:16)

* (889699) systemd drops X11 keyboard layout settings during upgrade
(adamw, 17:49:01)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889699 (adamw,
17:49:01)
* Proposed Blocker, systemd, ASSIGNED (adamw, 17:49:01)
* AGREED: 889699 is accepted as a blocker per criterion "...it must be
possible to successfully complete an upgrade from a fully updated
installation of the previous stable Fedora release with that package
set installed, using any officially recommended upgrade mechanisms.
The upgraded system must meet all release criteria." in the case of
non-U.S. keymaps (adamw, 18:20:21)

* (888089) ValueError: A RAID0 set requires at least 2 members (adamw,
18:24:28)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888089 (adamw,
18:24:28)
* Accepted Blocker, anaconda, POST (adamw, 18:24:28)
* this is now committed and awaiting a new anaconda build / compose /
test cycle (adamw, 18:26:51)

* (832510) vnc server starts before the network (adamw, 18:26:56)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832510 (adamw,
18:26:56)
* Accepted Blocker, anaconda, NEW (adamw, 18:26:57)
* developer (rvykydal) is on PTO this week, bcl is trying to take a
look on the issue (jreznik, 18:29:22)

* (877658) [i18n] some storage-related error messages not marked for
translation: "Not enough free space on disks for automatic
partitioning" (adamw, 18:29:38)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877658 (adamw,
18:29:38)
* Accepted Blocker, anaconda, ASSIGNED (adamw, 18:29:38)
* this just needs an anaconda rebuild, should be fixed with a new
build (adamw, 18:32:16)

* (890577) drop to dracut shell if /usr is on a btrfs subvol (adamw,
18:32:26)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890577 (adamw,
18:32:26)
* Accepted Blocker, dracut, ON_QA (adamw, 18:32:27)
* we need to do a TC5/RC1 with the updated dracut to fix and test this
(adamw, 18:39:06)

* (883075) fedup upgrading is too quiet (adamw, 18:39:37)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883075 (adamw,
18:39:37)
* Accepted Blocker, fedup-dracut, MODIFIED (adamw, 18:39:37)
* this either needs some kind of action to build a new upgrade.img or
can be considered done with tc4, need to clarify with tflink
(adamw, 18:41:47)

* (875846) [i18n] "ON" and "OFF" not translated in switches on DVD
(gtk30.mo not on DVD) (adamw, 18:41:57)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875846 (adamw,
18:41:57)
* Accepted Blocker, lorax, ASSIGNED (adamw, 18:41:57)
* this just needs a re-spin with new lorax (adamw, 18:43:21)

* (889562) Console keymap set to "us" if you install with a keymap not
provided by systemd-localed (adamw, 18:43:27)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889562 (adamw,
18:43:27)
* Accepted Blocker, systemd, NEW (adamw, 18:43:28)
* plan here is to try and fix up the most prominent missing
conversions in systemd's kbd-model-map where corresponding console
keymaps are actually available (adamw, 18:49:31)

* (876218) pxeboot/netinst + nfsiso repo = hang on reboot (adamw,
18:51:36)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876218 (adamw,
18:51:36)
* Accepted Blocker, systemd, ASSIGNED (adamw, 18:51:36)
* we still seem to be playing hot potato between anaconda, systemd and
nfs developers here. poettering believes it is an anaconda bug
(adamw, 18:56:47)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876218#c17 is
relevant here. we *did* waive a similar bug for f17 final. qa in
general thought that was a fudge too far. (adamw, 19:05:04)
* ball is in development team's court, we need anaconda, systemd and
nfs folks to agree on a plan and just fix the damn thing, jreznik
and rbergeron please supervise (adamw, 19:15:18)

* (891489) anaconda cannot find matching keyboard layouts for several
languages, sets them to U.S. English (adamw, 19:15:48)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891489 (adamw,
19:15:48)
* Proposed NTH, anaconda, POST (adamw, 19:15:48)
* AGREED: 891489 is accepted as NTH: it's a safe improvement to
language->keymap mapping in anaconda which is desirable for
non-english installs (adamw, 19:18:56)

* (891487) Anaconda keyboard layout list is missing many offered by
GNOME, including some associated with languages for which we offer a
translation (adamw, 19:19:03)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891487 (adamw,
19:19:03)
* Proposed NTH, anaconda, NEW (adamw, 19:19:03)
* AGREED: 891487 is accepted as NTH as a potential improvement in
keymap availability, we may choose not to take the change if it is
too big (adamw, 19:22:03)

* (855250) Change the default filtering for Quick and Cangjie (adamw,
19:23:00)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855250 (adamw,
19:23:00)
* Proposed NTH, ibus-table-chinese, ASSIGNED (adamw, 19:23:00)
* AGREED: 855250 accepted as NTH, improves default input config for
Hong Kong users, safe change that does not affect anything else
(adamw, 19:24:17)

* (854557) Keyboard layout testing doesn't work as expected and lacks
indication of the active layout (adamw, 19:24:27)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854557 (adamw,
19:24:27)
* Proposed NTH, anaconda, MODIFIED (adamw, 19:24:27)
* AGREED: 854557 is rejected as NTH as the fix just clarifies the
input dialog a bit, it doesn't improve the interface, and would
necessitate new translations (adamw, 19:28:17)

* go/no-go (jreznik, 19:28:57)
* there's no RC build, there are outstanding accepted blockers, and
test coverage is incomplete. so in accordance with policies, QA
votes no-go (jreznik, 19:30:05)
* AGREED: to no-go (jreznik, 19:31:19)
* AGREED: to slip one week with release date on Tue 2012-01-15 and
Go/No-Go meeting on Wed 2012-01-09 (jreznik, 20:04:42)
* the possibility of another Fri Go/No-Go will be discussed in case of
problems, with possibility to release on Thu 2012-01-17 (jreznik,
20:05:29)

Meeting ended at 20:09:19 UTC.


Action Items
------------

Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)


People Present (lines said)
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* jreznik (182)
* nirik (102)
* rbergeron (73)
* poettering (61)
* drago01_ (26)
* drago01 (17)
* dgilmore (17)
* zodbot (7)
* Martix (4)
* kmacleod (4)
* k0Do (4)
* bcl (3)
* rtcm (3)
* dingtav (3)
* jwb (3)
* satellit (2)
* j_dulaney (1)
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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Packaging guidelines update January/2013

Hi all,

this is the new announcement of changes in our packaging guidelines
have happened last month. The Christmas period is usually calm and
people tend to focus on other things, so we have only minor updates.

Content
===============
1.) The categorization discussion
2.) Various small changes
3.) Boring diffstat

The categorization discussion
=============================

The thread [1] started clarify categories in a wiki is still wip. But
hopefully we found [2] a good set of categories, which enhances the
readability.

Various small changes
=====================

Several pages got minor editations, which does not fall into own
category, but should be mentioned

* new abbreviation bxc has been added to patches guidelines [3]
* the s/discriminatory/non-discriminatory/ typo has been fixed
in guidelines page [4]
* little typo fixes in systemd packaging page [5]

Boring diffstat
===============

openSUSE:Packaging Patches guidelines | 4 ++++
openSUSE:Packaging guidelines | 3 ++-
openSUSE:Systemd packaging guidelines | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


[1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2012-12/msg00107.html
[2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2013-01/msg00004.html
[3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines
[4] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines
[5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Systemd_packaging_guidelines

Regards
Michal Vyskocil

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2013:0002 CentOS 6 selinux-policy Update

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2013:0002

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0002.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename )

i386:
c93b896eaf90cebd0fd6314e520fe0ff5812f2c48c3c19c5b7168e0914588eba selinux-policy-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm
056adeea0143fc4be7b3d6933111bdbd9b7a495e80e213086344ffd6ace7aeff selinux-policy-doc-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm
2abdacaf9868e85cd4ee4fef529311fed906a6edd6bc422c2e7eba277d23b796 selinux-policy-minimum-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm
32beacc267d1b859c66daaa4622b80771347d6a9f9132de1a6eb0f3317eac879 selinux-policy-mls-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm
6418a253271aa1bea21fd776d3c806a91ce5a33579b050dba0b6d669ffc60083 selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
c93b896eaf90cebd0fd6314e520fe0ff5812f2c48c3c19c5b7168e0914588eba selinux-policy-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm
056adeea0143fc4be7b3d6933111bdbd9b7a495e80e213086344ffd6ace7aeff selinux-policy-doc-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm
2abdacaf9868e85cd4ee4fef529311fed906a6edd6bc422c2e7eba277d23b796 selinux-policy-minimum-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm
32beacc267d1b859c66daaa4622b80771347d6a9f9132de1a6eb0f3317eac879 selinux-policy-mls-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm
6418a253271aa1bea21fd776d3c806a91ce5a33579b050dba0b6d669ffc60083 selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.noarch.rpm

Source:
ee995c836221e7564a1158306bc7c0ecc12ac189c0333f79d85cb0b8579c5acd selinux-policy-3.7.19-155.el6_3.14.src.rpm



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Planned Outage: phx2 network outage - 2013-01-06 04:00 UTC

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Outage: phx2 network outage - 2013-01-06 04:00 UTC

There will be an outage starting at 2013-01-06 04:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 1 hour.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:

date -d '2013-01-06 04:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

Networking upgrades are taking place at our phx2 datacenter. All
network connectivity will be down for a few minutes. Outage is
expected to be very short (on the order of 5minutes), however issues
could persist in this window.

Affected Services:

Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/

BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/

Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/

Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/

Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/

GIT / Source Control

Email system

Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/

Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/

Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/

QA Services

Secondary Architectures

Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Unaffected Services:

Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/

Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/

Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/

Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/

Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/

Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org

Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3611

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add
comments to the ticket for this outage above.

Proposed F19 Feature: DualstackNetworking - proper dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 networking

As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required
to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list.
FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement.

= Features/DualstackNetworking =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DualstackNetworking

* Detailed description
Fedora supports dualstack global networking. That means the computer with
Fedora is connected to internet using both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. But many
important system services and applications either don't do IPv6, do it
incorrectly, or don't cope with various network conditions.

Unfortunately, while trying to improve IPv6 support, some IPv4 use cases became
broken as well. That's why the goal of this feature is not only to support IPv4,
but to support all possible real-world cases.

Dualstack-ready software must cope with all possible scenarios including
IPv4-only connectivity, IPv6-only connectivity and dual connectivity.
The software must also cope with node-local (aka localhost) networking, which
as been used by software for decades.

Though it would be nice to have all applications in Fedora fixed to work in
any of the scenarios, it is not feasible to test that. Therefore this feature
is about major software used in servers, desktops and laptops. The list of such
applications will be completed over the time.

Bugs related to dualstack networking should be added to the following tracker
bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883152

Also see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=ipv6blocker
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Re: Proposed F19 Feature: 3D Printing - Bring 3D printing tools to Fedora

I've spoken with the author of Skeinforge (http://fabmetheus.crsndoo.com/wiki/index.php/Skeinforge) about getting it set up and included into Fedora. It wouldn't be a large effort, I just haven't had the time to date.




On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@redhat.com> wrote:
As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required
to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list.
FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement.

= Features/3D Printing =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/3D_Printing

* Detailed description:
There are several software needs for a 3D printer users: 3D modeling tool,
such as OpenSCAD or Blender; slcing tool, to "compile" the 3D model to a set of
G-Code instructions, such as Skeinforge or Slic3r; and finally a printer control
software, such as Printrun, Cura or RepetierHost.

Other useful application is meshlab, that allows users to view STL files, but it
is already in Fedora, so it is not mentioned more.

3D Printing Feature is already being discussed on fedora-devel list,
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/175711.html

Jaroslav
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Proposed F19 Feature: 3D Printing - Bring 3D printing tools to Fedora

As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required
to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list.
FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement.

= Features/3D Printing =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/3D_Printing

* Detailed description:
There are several software needs for a 3D printer users: 3D modeling tool,
such as OpenSCAD or Blender; slcing tool, to "compile" the 3D model to a set of
G-Code instructions, such as Skeinforge or Slic3r; and finally a printer control
software, such as Printrun, Cura or RepetierHost.

Other useful application is meshlab, that allows users to view STL files, but it
is already in Fedora, so it is not mentioned more.

3D Printing Feature is already being discussed on fedora-devel list,
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/175711.html

Jaroslav
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Proposed F19 Feature: Pillow - Replace PIL (python-imaging) with Pillow, an actively maintained fork

As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required
to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list.
FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement.

= Features/Pillow =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Pillow

* Detailed description:
The PIL project has been rather inactive lately (last release in 2009), and one
big issue is the missing python 3 compatibility. There seems to be some general
agreement that Pillow [1] is a likely candidate to succeed PIL, and in particular
to bring python 3 support, see the discussion at [2]. Pillow describes itself as

"Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library. Pillow was
started for and is currently maintained by the Plone community. But it is used by
many other folks in the Python web community, and probably elsewhere too."

The fork author's goal is to foster packaging improvements via:

- Publicized development and solicitation of community support.
- Exploration of packaging problems within the fork, most noticably
via adding setuptools support but also via clean up & refactoring
of packaging code.

Pillow is practically a drop-in replacement for PIL, except one small issue (see below).

For Python 3, there is a fork which offers Py3 compatibility here [3]. The patches are
planed for review and merge into Pillow, see [4].

[1] https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/
[2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2012-October/007059.html
[3] https://github.com/fluggo/Pillow
[4] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2012-December/007120.html

Pillow Feature is already being discussed on fedora-devel list,
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/175621.html

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Btw. If you have any concerns about the announcements (format, frequency, ml etc.),
please let me know.

Jaroslav
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[announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming for 2013

Tonight's meeting has been postponed to next week, January 9th. There
will be *no* meeting tonight, January 2nd.

Eitan Adler on "What's New with FreeBSD?" at Suspenders at 645 PM.

Next month will be John Baldwin on SMPng on February 7th.

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Fedora 18 Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, January 03 @ 17:00 UTC (12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific)

Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important
meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 18.

Thursday, January 03, 2013 @17:00 UTC (12:00 EST/09:00 PST/18:00 CET)

"Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet
to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release.
This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
the QA Team."

For more details about this meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting

In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 18 Final Blocker list:
http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/18/final/buglist

Reminder: Fedora 18 Final readiness meeting follows the Go/No-Go meeting
two hours later (19:00 UTC, 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific), even it's agreed
on No-Go.

There's also Fedora 18 Final Blocker Bug Review #8 meeting planned for
January 02, 2013 17:00 UTC - if you have an accepted unresolved blocker
bug, or proposed blocker bug assigned to you, please join the meeting
to help us determine it's status.

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[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2013:0001 CentOS 5 gtk2 Update

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2013:0001

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0001.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename )

i386:
00916c4d0499af3342070dfe9c9567729a4e26eaf324c5c37d533a654cfe2329 gtk2-2.10.4-23.el5_8.i386.rpm
bb770be9bc19fd1fd5913899fb095e1f497f925415c731f0782c5c571f68400f gtk2-devel-2.10.4-23.el5_8.i386.rpm

x86_64:
00916c4d0499af3342070dfe9c9567729a4e26eaf324c5c37d533a654cfe2329 gtk2-2.10.4-23.el5_8.i386.rpm
ced8ba68666227bfdffef4c6b87e7b25a04df6e580f4ee52d061bf305964c1aa gtk2-2.10.4-23.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
bb770be9bc19fd1fd5913899fb095e1f497f925415c731f0782c5c571f68400f gtk2-devel-2.10.4-23.el5_8.i386.rpm
b859bc71b40573dfabd7d4396b7c56b5e39066322f51cbf7d49f56d526a589a1 gtk2-devel-2.10.4-23.el5_8.x86_64.rpm

Source:
6b0607d4ae1fab4b4c0b8204824d1e13441458541aafd30bad74dc4012da6779 gtk2-2.10.4-23.el5_8.src.rpm



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