One of the last things I want to worry about as the Fedora Project Leader is the appearance of our community. We have so many bright, energetic, talented, and wonderful people helping build the future of free and open source software, that I sometimes take it for granted. The work …
A quick note on my geography, for those who care. When I was hired by Red Hat, it was by the Engineering department. Previously, my position, as held by the illustrious Max Spevack, was located in the Corporate Marketing deparment of Red Hat. My intention was (and remains) to relocate …
A couple of days ago, the big heads-up about new RPM hit the lists. Today the other shoe has dropped. Thanks to the RPM hackers working on this codebase — many distributions are going to benefit directly from this work, including but not limited to Fedora.
I think everyone can agree that when one gives Fedora help to someone, one should give the right answer. There’s been a little confusion over in #fedora about making bootable Live USB keys. In the old days, you used to be able to use a command like this to make …
Another thought about the feature process: I suppose you could look at quality as a concept driving the feature process, and quality is what dictates having an acceptance bar. Because if you’re not going to make any judgment on quality, then really, anything goes. This might, to some, beg the …
True to form, Fedora marches on! As I look at the proposed Fedora 10 features this morning, I see a lot of changes since yesterday. The number of feature proposals has dropped significantly, meaning these features have been simply moved to a more general pool while their owners update them …
I was just looking at the proposed Fedora 10 features category on the wiki. There are over a dozen cool features being set up for this next release. (If I read the pages right, some may even be finished already in Rawhide.) Check some of these out: Better LIRC support …
Reminder to those of you who were busy having a wonderful weekend: There’s a public Board IRC meeting today at 1800 UTC. You can find all the details in the link, and background here. We usually hold these meetings monthly, although there was an interruption last month for a number …
I was surprised and overjoyed to find out that one of my favorite novelists, Nelson DeMille, is returning to catch his readers up on the cast of one of his best books, The Gold Coast. The end of October will see the publication of