Looks like the KDE-SIG has gone and upset a few bugs...

As promised here is an update on where the KDE-SIG stands with squashing those pesky Rawhide (F11) bugs.

Currently tracked issues - 68

Which break down as follows.

25 currently open issues.
5 pending testing before release
38 sent to the upstream developers

And 19 of the upstream issues have been resolved and the fixes either already are in Fedora or soon will be.

Keep in mind before we can squash those bugs you need to help us find them.

SMP

The KDE-SIG is hard at work to bring you the best desktop experience in Fedora. The way you help us do that is by filing bugreports to let us know where the problems are.

So here is an quick update as to where we stand as of today June 1st in regards to F10(Cambridge).

Currently tracked issues - 103

Which break down as follows.

42 currently open issues.
2 pending testing before release
59 sent to the upstream developers

And 24 of the upstream issues have been resolved and the fixes either already are in Fedora or soon will be.

If you want to help improve Fedora, not just KDE, take a minute and get yourself an account setup on Bugzilla and let us know of any issues you have.

Remember you can't stomp the bugs you can't see.

SMP

PS. Tomorrow will have an update on F11 issues

My normal morning routine is to download some new podcasts to listen to on the commute into work. This morning a fresh copy of FLOSS Weekly was loaded up and ready for consumption. I enjoy several of Leo Laporte's podcasts, but none as much as FLOSS Weekly where he and Randal Schwartz interview people from the open source world. This weeks guest was none other than Fedora's Project Leader, our own Paul Frields. Paul did an excellent job of getting the point across that Fedora is more than just a Linux distribution. It's a growing, vibrant community of volunteers who contribute not only to Fedora the distro itself, but to the infrastructure that runs our servers, writes the documentation, triages the bugs, and packages the many applications that are available in Fedora's repos.

Fedora 11 is on the horizon, and who knows what the future holds for us, but we should all be very proud of our community. Fedora is not a bunch of bits, it's us.

Take some time and listen to the podcast here.

SMP

Quassel is a Qt based IRC client that has been in the Fedora repositories since F9. Now the developers have added KDE integration so that Quassel will now use the same style as all your other KDE apps. The new version with KDE integration enabled is currently in Rawhide and should land in updates-testing for F10 on the next push. Try it out and if you have any issues let me know via Bodhi or bugzilla.

Steven

Started off with my yearly visit to the eye doctor. After being triaged, yes thats what they call it, I was left in the exam room to await the Dr. Everything in this office is computerized, and I was surprised to see a familiar "K" staring at me from the taskbar. Found out that the entire office was running Red Hat 5 and KDE, not a single Windows box in the place.

Then I worked on a few package reviews, it's always a pleasure to help get new packages into Fedora, and this time I even got a chance to help shepherd a new contributor into Fedora. Welcome to Nucleo, thorough his efforts KNemo has made it back into Fedora.

And lastly thanks to rdieter, belated "Happy Birthday" btw, who completed a review for me, I've also got a new package in Fedora. Subtitle Commposer, which as the name applies is a tool to add subtitles to videos.

So it was a good week, Fedora got a new contributor and a few new packages; and to cap it off tonight is the finale of Battlestar Galactica.

Enjoy life its the only one you get.

SMP

That's what I thought until this weekends FUDCon. Thanks to a presentation by Eclipse guru Andrew Overholt I learned that Eclipse is so much more, due to a large collection of available plug-ins. 2 plugins are currently available in the repos that can help with my daily Fedora duites.

The first is Mylyn which is a task based interface for Eclipse. One thing it provides is a bridge to RedHat's bugzilla, so now all the bugs I triage and work with are grouped in one place and I can monitor them for changes and even update them thru Eclipse with Mylyn. Now I can keep my inbox free of bugzilla updates.

There is also an RPM specfile plugin which provides code completion and inline rpmlint checking.

And lastly, but unfortunately still in development, is a Fedora packager plugin which will allow you maintain all your Fedora packages directly from Eclipse. You will be able to edit your specfiles, kick off builds, do bodhi updates etc.

Checkout the LinuxTools project for these and other plugins available for Eclipse.

Can't wait to see what they come up with next.

SMP

If you attended FUDCon F11 please take a few seconds and complete this poll on which desktop you use.

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What is your primary desktop

Thought about posting this after FUDPub last night, but decided (alcohol + blog) = bad. So here we are Sunday morning, sober with a good cup of caffeine and post in my head.

Saturday was barcamp day. Lots of good sessions were proposed, unfortunately time did not permit me to attend all that I wanted to. I made it to a FESCO meeting as an observer. Then a session on Eclipse that I will post more on later. Suffice it to say it was very informative and Eclipse is not your ordinary IDE.

The Eclipse session was followed by Lunch catered by local favorite Rebecca's Cafe.

After lunch I triaged a couple dozed more bugs while listening to a presentation on Dracut and new system to replace initrd, followed by Stickster's introduction to git. The last session I attended was on Fedora Classroom, what it is, where its going and how to get it there.

The day ended with FUDPub at a local watering hole. A fun time was had by all, which explains this late post. -)

Herlo and his merry men did a great job recording audio and sometimes video for a good majority of these sessions, so if you were not able to attend FUDCon F11 you should find these recordings online soon.

The southbound leg of the East Coast Road trip begins later this afternoon, and will blog more from the road.

SMP

1st official day of FUDCon.

Spent the morning with a group of RH people talking about the QA process, how to automate it and more importantly what can be done to ensure quality packages make it into the repos. They are looking at things such as: Auto reviews of koji buildlogs looking for anything unusual. Creating a GUI app to let the everyday (non poweruser) send feedback on individual apps, especially ones in updates-testing. And they also want to make sure that vital core apps are vetted before being let out into the world to prevent issues such as the recent DBUS problems.

After a quick lunch, I sat in on an Ambassador's talk and wiki talk. While listening to them I think I managed to give not only bugbot a headache but my fellow KDE SiGers one as I triaged about 100 bugs and filed up their email boxes with bugzilla spam.

Now to find a beer and a pillow and get ready for tomorrow's Bar Camps.

SMP

Ok was supposed to be part of the Great East Coast Roadtrip up to Boston and FUDCon. Got home last night and wife says "Honey, something is wrong with my brakes, they make a grinding noise is that normal?" So instead of leaving for Boston last night I had to stay back in Raleigh and get her car fixed. $150 later she has new brakes and I was heading to Boston. Caught a flight up, took the metro to the hotel and I'm ready for FUDCon.

Haven't flown in quite a while and forgot just how gorgeous it is up at 30000 feet. Was really surprised how dingy and rundown Logan airport is.

Oh and yes it is cold outside and there is old dirty snow outside as well. Not like the 60 degrees it was in Raleigh yesterday.

SMP

My week of Linux begins tonight. Have a TriLuG meeting tonight. Then the Great East Coast Road Trip up to Boston leaves after that. FUDCon 11 runs Friday - Sunday, and I start my RHCE class next week. Should be interesting. Will be doing some reporting from FUDCon over the weekend.

SMP

Here it is December 31st. Besides being New Year's Eve, it also happens to be SWMBO's birthday. So after a nice dinner at a down town Raleigh eatery it will be time to head home and partake of a good bottle of wine while waiting for 2009 to arrive.

Before 2008 is out the door though, I present to you a new package for F10 and Rawhide. Spicebird a PIM based on Thunderbird is available in the updates-testing repo. So download this newest beta (0.7) and give it a spin.

To all my fellow Fedorians, Happy New Year! Be safe and here's to hoping for a bountiful 2009 for us all.

SMP

If you did an upgrade from F9 to F10 and are a KDE user, you are missing 1 new piece of software. KPackageKit is the new Qt based gui front end for PackageKit. You will need to install this yourself so.... yum install kpackagekit and get it today. Try for a few days, and report any issues.

SMP

Happy Thanksgiving to all the U.S. Fedora contributors and users. And to the rest of the world happy Thursday.

SMP

A new version of Liferea just hit testing. This version should correct a few issues and offer better stability. Please report any issues you may have. Enjoy.

SMP

kpackagekit version 0.3.1 is now in Rawhide and in need of testing.

Enjoy!

SMP

There is an interview with the developers of KPackageKit and PackageKit-Qt here. Give it a read and then install it on your KDE F10 Beta and try it out.

SMP

The .1 release for kpackagekit is now available in rawhide. This is the new KDE front end for PackageKit. Once installed it can be accessed from the main menu --> System Settings --> Add and Remove Software. There is also a systray app that will alert you to any available updates. If you are testing the KDE F10 beta please install it and send any issues to me via bugzilla.

SMP

Conman the console manager has release version 0.2.2 and is now available in updates testing for both F8 & F9.


Also coming soon to a repository near you new releases of -

- Powerman
- Liferea
- Quassel

SMP

Liferea 1.4.18 has just been pushed to updates testing for F-9. This version fixes a nasty 100% CPU usage bug that was plaguing some users of version 1.4.17. Bodhi page is here so please add your comments after giving the new release a try.