Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
Red Hat just posted an interesting press blog entry about how Fedora’s licensing requirements — far from being a hindrance — are helping the broader open source community. By doing our part, in collaboration with Zimbra, to fix a troublesome bit in the Yahoo! Public License, we’ve helped them achieve …
Fedora contributors can now vote on the Fedora 10 release name. You have your choice of nine names of varying appeal. For each choice, you can indicate a level of approval by rating it from 0-9 points. You do not need to rank names against each other. In other words, …
It was a nice weekend even though it was blisteringly hot. Saturday my wife took my daughter out for haircuts and some shopping, so I stayed at home with Trouble (we should probably just get around to changing my son’s name legally) and we played a bit. I also checked …
It’s not an epithet, it’s a slogan. I’ll be up in Boston (Westford, actually) for the week of July 28. During that time there are a few things I’d like to accomplish, like: getting together with some of the Red Hat managers who don’t see me often (you know, out …
As we approach the Fedora 10 Alpha release, the Docs team finds our list of beat writers for the Release Notes is sadly outdated. We need to get it updated with people who are willing to write information on Fedora 10 changes. A “beat” is like a policeman’s or a …
The privacy policy we’ve used in Fedora for years has been causing us some conflicts recently. The only big surprise is that it’s lasted for this long! That’s because it’s Red Hat’s privacy policy — and it’s designed for a commercial entity that deals with customers, not an open and …
You might remember the AllemaniACs Robocup@Home team from this Red Hat News article. They use Fedora for all their programming and onboard their robot soccer team, and they’re in Suzhou, China this week for the RoboCup@Home world finals, after winning the German Open in Hannover earlier this spring. Earlier today, …
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 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.