Whoa, looks like opensource.com has posted a Q&A interview with yr. humble narrator. If you’ve got a few minutes free please check it out — and more importantly, look through the site to find truly and deeply insightful stories about and by other great thought leaders in open source areas. …
As seen on the official announcement list, the final release of Fedora 13 will be postponed by a one-week slip. As the announcement notes, the blocker bug list is not empty, which means that according to our F13 final release criteria, we slip the release. It’s always disappointing when we …
So much going on today! At 10:00 am US Eastern time (1400 UTC), Fedora 13 Beta is released. The Beta is our last milestone before the final release of Fedora 13. We’d like to have as many people test it as possible. It’s available in a “Live ISO” format you …
Till Maas constructed a truly useful Fedora Easy Karma script in Python. There’s a wiki page about it already, and it’s very easy to use. I just used it to test and give karma to a handful of packages in the pre-release Fedora 13 updates-testing repository in just a few …
The Beta release of Fedora 12 “Constantine” is out today! To get the latest bits, start by visiting our prerelease site and choose your architecture and download method. Remember that we have BitTorrent available, and we encourage everyone to give back a little to the community by seeding whenever possible. …
According to this posting to the fedora-test-list by Liam, there’s going to be some installation testing for the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha candidate next week, on Wednesday July 29. This is a chance to shake out some of the new features in the Anaconda installation application that have come in …
I participated in yesterday’s building of unit tests for pykickstart, and it was a great learning experience. Like many contributors, I’m not a coder. But I have done very simple scripts in Python and it turned out I didn’t need much more, other than a helping hand from James Laska, …
Thank you to the kind folks at Neowin, particularly Matthew Hopson, for the opportunity to do a lengthy Q & A with their community about Fedora. I was able to work in a couple not-so-sneaky plugs for the Fedora 11 Alpha that’s due next Tuesday, February 3. (That just happens …