Kevin's musings

Yesterday, we had a sunny day. Almost 80 and we were thinking about getting the A/C working. Today? See for yourself…

After being quiet for a while, we have cranked the Fedora IRC classroom back up in the last week.

First we had a great class from Joe Brockmeier on How to make life awesome for journalists. I was sadly unable to attend (as I was running the FESCo meeting that was taking place at the same time), but reading the logs it was a great class.

Then tonight I ran another class on How to test Fedora Updates, which I think went reasonably well. If you wondered about how Fedora updates work now and you can provide feedback, how they will look soon, and how they might look someday, please do give the session a read over.

We have a number of other sessions coming up if folks can make them:

• A Short Tutorial On i18n Through gettext – Naveen Kumar on 30 April, 2010 at 12:30 UTC (6:00 PM IST)
• Introductory workshop on GNU Autotools – Siddhesh Poyarekar on 03 May, 2010 at 13:30 UTC (7:00 PM IST)
• Learn about exciting Fedora 13 Features – Kevin Fenzi on 10 May, 2010 at 01:00 UTC

As we get closer to the release of Fedora 13, this is a great time to run a class on something you are working on thats going to be released with Fedora 13, so do consider attending, signing up to teach a class yourself, or peruse the logs after a session. All the info on how to do that is on the Classroom page.

Per Paul’s announcement on Elections, Fedora will be holding Elections for FESCo and the Fedora Board starting with nominations opening tomorrow.

I am going to throw my hat back in the ring for FESCo again. I hope folks will consider voting for me.

I would like to see a number of things through in the next cycle:

• I would like to see more folks working on Fedora Engineering Sevices, and more tasks for them that make Fedora better
• I would like to see us implement and put in place our new updates policy.
• I would like to see us look longer range and come up with a better updates policy and ways to implement it. For example, I think we can expand the karma concept in bodhi a good deal and work on test plans for bugs and packages.

And many more items too.

If anyone has any questions for me on plans, goals or how I envision the engineering side of Fedora moving ahead, feel free to comment here, drop me an email, or catch me on IRC. I’m always happy to help out and answer questions.

I hope we will have a good slate of folks for this election and some good town halls and questions.