The Fedora Project: Where we {were,at,will be}

Colin Charles

colin@fedoraproject.org

http://www.bytebot.net/

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What is the Fedora Project?

Red Hat sponsored, community supported open source project

A merger between the Red Hat Linux and Fedora Linux projects

Proving ground for new technologies

If it isn't it Core, it isn't in RHEL

Not a beta testing ground for software that doesn't work

Development done out in the open by Red Hat engineers and members of the community

Concentration mainly around:

Core: the distribution, package set that includes ISOs upon release that happen about twice a year

Extras: additional packages to increase the productivity of Core users; works alongside Core

Legacy: security fixes for older releases of core packages

A little history

(and some predictions)

Core 1 – November 2003

2.4 based kernel, GNOME 2.4, yum inside

Core 2 – May 2004

2.6 based kernel, GNOME 2.6, SELinux, new OpenOffice.org, XFce 4, x86_64 official release, Xorg X11

Core 3 – November 2004

2.6 based kernel, GNOME 2.8, SELinux, Firefox, HAL/DBUS, gamin, LVM in anaconda

Core 4 – May 2005

Whats there to look out for in Core 4?

2.6.10 based upstream kernel (-ac based)

GCC 4 (possible builds with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE)

GNOME 2.10

KDE 3.4

MySQL 4

Xen

Package management

Faster boot time

PPC support

Extras

From:	seth vidal <skvidal@this.email.is.censored.but.very.google-able>

Reply-To:	Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@redhat.com>

To:	fedora-devel-list@redhat.com, fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

Subject:	Fedora Extras, Fedora Core CVS Open!

Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:44:08 -0500 (13:44 MYT)

Want to be REAL sure you notice this:

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/departments/fedora_status/

That's Right CVS is open - you need to run, don't walk, to:

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com

It's all exciting - except for the boring parts.

Tomorrow morning we will have another exciting item for you but I'm busy typing things and colin is on an airplane and all the other slackers are sleeping or some such nonsense as that so you'll have to wait until the morning.

Deal.

It's a bright, shiny, new day. But the fog isn't quite lifted yet.

-sv

Extras

Something we've talked about since the conception of the Fedora Project. Formerly fedora.us, but we promised a few deliverables:

CVS

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/

build system

repositories

http://fedoraproject.org/extras/

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/

QA/Bugzilla

And its slowly coming to form.

What we've achieved (till now...)

Got a core bunch of community members that are contributing to various items

Fedora Extras

CVS for Core/Extras is ready

External contributors are contributing to Extras already

just look at fedora-extras-commits

First ever Fedora Users and Developers Conference this Friday (18th February 2005)

Birds of a Feather (BOF): Wednesday, February 16th 2005 – Room 207, 5.15pm

all members of the community are invited! So come, ask questions, interact with the developers, users, community

The FUD we're not about

Not a beta testing dumping ground

You'll never find bad, unmaintained software

We aim to provide one utility for the job as the default; yet we'll still provide choice

Slow rate of change

we want at least 2-3 releases a year; we've successfully achieved 2/year

Commercial support/SLAs

never by Red Hat

never by The Fedora Project

fedora-marketing might create a vendor list of sorts

CD vendors: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/vendors.html

Boring!

The Community

http://fedoraproject.org/

a wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

fedora people: http://fedoraproject.org/people/

extras, developer e-mail aliases, other random project things we need ASAP

FedoraNEWS.ORG - http://www.fedoranews.org/

FedoraFAQ - http://www.fedorafaq.org/

Fedora Forums - http://www.fedoraforum.org/

http://www.fedorazine.com/

http://www.fedoratracker.org/

probably lots more...

Some statistics

fedora-list: 6,800 members

fedora-devel-list: 1757 members

fedora-test-list: 2300 members

fedoraforum.org – 17,980 members

about 860 commits to fedora-extras-commits list already

The people that make a difference

Seth Vidal

Cristian Gafton

Greg DeKoenigsberg

Warren Togami

Havoc Pennington

Paul Nasrat

Jesse Keating

Jack Aboutboul

Jeremy Katz

Michael Schwendt

Thorsthen Leemhuis

Dams Nade (Anvil)

Jef Spaleta

Elliot Lee

Bill Nottingham

Michael Tiemann

Peter Jones

Tom 'spot' Callaway

Dave Lawrence

Jay Turner

Ville Skyttä

Stephan Gael (Pix)

Matthias Saou

Thomas Vander Stichele

Enrico Scholz

Phillip Compton

Miloslav Trmac

Thank you

Questions?

Colin Charles

colin@fedoraproject.org

http://www.bytebot.net/

2005-02-14T20:17:29