Merlin update – 2011-05-08
Merlin is very slowly improving. He can stand up on his own, and sometimes he can lay down on his own too. A few days ago he started eating small amounts (we have been giving him canned puppy food...
View ArticleFedora Election Season
It’s that time again: Fedora election season. The Fedora Board and The Fedora Engineering Steering Committeeare open to nominations until tomorrow. I have no desire to serve on the Fedora Board, but...
View ArticleFedora 15 Party!
The release of Fedora 15 is just around the corner (this tuesday, 2011-05-24)! As always, we will be having a on-line release party over in #fedora-social on irc.freenode.net. Please join us in...
View ArticleFedora FPCA deadline rapidly approaching…
If you have not had a chance yet to go and sign in to your fedora account and sign the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement please do so soon! The deadline is approaching this thursday. After that...
View ArticleOn reboots
Rebooting machines is a interesting study in the varied opinions of the Linux community. On one end, there are folks who will use ksplice or simply avoid rebooting for any reason short of a hardware...
View Articlelaptops and mail flow
Recently, the filesystem on my trusty Dell D820 laptop started having some problems. It’s using btrfs and installed back when btrfs first showed up, so I am no too surprised that something happend with...
View ArticlePasswords and Keys and changing them
This morning, we announced that we are requiring Fedora contributors to change the passwords and upload new ssh public keys by the end of next month. There’s no breach or cause for alarm, we just...
View ArticleDear IBM
Your blade centers are pretty nifty… however: a) Isn’t there any way the remote console could just be vnc directly instead of requiring a java applet? Because the java applet has various issues and...
View ArticleBugside manners
Looking at a bug report today, I saw some pretty poor “bugside manners” on the part of a few people (including the upstream developer). There’s tons of examples out there of good bug report...
View ArticleReminder: Fedora password and ssh key change deadline looms (2 days left!)
Just a friendly reminder: If you are a Fedora account system account holder, and haven’t changed your password and uploaded a new ssh key since we announced the mandatory change, you best do so NOW....
View ArticleLessons from password/key changes
Recently, Fedora infrastructure requested everyone change their password and upload a new SSH public key. We gave folks almost 2 months to make the change. I’d just like to note here the reactions we...
View ArticleFedora NFS server outage retrospective
As you may have seen if you are on the fedora announce list, we had an outage the other day of our main build system NFS storage. This meant that no builds could be made and also data could not be...
View Articlefedorahosted.org changes an enhancements
I just thought I would shoot out a quick post about some changes and enhancements at fedorahosted.org (an excellent place to host your open source project). We’ve moved fedorahosted to RHEL6 and a...
View ArticleSome new fedorahosted.org plugins
Thanks to some quick packaging work by Andrea Veri we have some new plugins we have added to trac on fedorahosted.org for your tracking pleasure: trac-workflowadmin-plugin: This plugin lets you change...
View ArticleAnother fedorahosted.org trac plugin
I’ve just updated in epel and installed on fedorahosted.org another trac plugin: PeerReviewPlugin This is a nifty little plugin that lets you do codereviews. You can set users to have CODEREVIEWDEV...
View ArticleFedora Infrastructure at fudcon 2012
Next weekend is Fudcon Blacksberg 2012 and a number of Fedora Infrastructure folks should be there (Including me). I’ve signed up to give/facilitate 3 workshops/hackfest sessions: Fedora...
View ArticleFudcon Day 0
Thursday (Fudcon Blacksburg 2012 day 0) was a travel day for me. Had to get up at the unreasonable hour of 4:45 to catch the shuttle to the airport, then to my first flight to chicago. That went off...
View ArticleFudcon day 1
Fudcon day 1 started with having to get up at 7:30am to get ready for the 9am starting time. Thats 5:30am my time, so that’s an excuse for me being groggy this morning. Had no problem getting to the...
View ArticleFudcon day 2
Saturday started off super early: Scheduled for a 8:30 start (although we didn’t actually start until 9am). We had some intro and then pitching of barcamp sessions. Lots of nice sounding sessions. Then...
View ArticleFudcon day 3
Day 3 started out over at Macbride hall again. Some of us Fedora Infrastructure folks got together to hash out any issues and projects we are concerned about in the coming weeks, months or year. We may...
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