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05/14/11--07:08: Fedora Election Season (chan 1640112)

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 I’ve been on FESCo since it was the Fedora Extras Steering Committee. So, thinking about running again brought up many thoughts: I think [...]


05/22/11--13:21: Fedora 15 Party! (chan 1640112)

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 celebrating the release…


06/14/11--10:09: Fedora FPCA deadline rapidly approaching… (chan 1640112)

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 point you will be removed from any groups that require “cla_done”, for example the packager group, or any of [...]


06/26/11--07:36: On reboots (chan 1640112)

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 failure. On the other you have desktop users who reboot their machines daily. I’m somewhere in the middle: For servers [...]


08/31/11--08:45: laptops and mail flow (chan 1640112)

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 it. Side note: Josef (btrfs maintainer extraordinaire) has been absolutely great in helping track down and fix it, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726814 for [...]


10/12/11--12:38: Passwords and Keys and changing them (chan 1640112)

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 thought it would be a good time with all the high profile hacking happening out there for everyone to go [...]


11/01/11--12:58: Dear IBM (chan 1640112)

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 there are some very nice direct vnc clients available. It would be less hassle for you even. and b) Could you [...]


11/02/11--11:53: Bugside manners (chan 1640112)

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 interactions and poor ones. I’d like to urge everyone to take a minute and think before posting that next bug comment. [...]


11/28/11--10:41: Reminder: Fedora password and ssh key change deadline looms (2 days left!) (chan 1640112)

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. The deadline is 2011-11-30 (only 2 days away). If you don’t, you may no longer have access to groups you [...]


12/01/11--08:48: Lessons from password/key changes (chan 1640112)

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 had, divided into 4 ‘groups’ of users. Of course some people were between two of these groups or some probably had [...]