We’ve made some good progress since discussions around bug triage started last December. At the time there were approximately 13,500 open Fedora bugs. Today the count is 3,000 less at approximately 10,500. While we talk about closing bugs a lot,… Continue Reading →
One of my jobs within Red Hat is help to make sure Red Hat Engineering is in sync with what Fedora is doing and vice versa. Many people assume that because the Fedora Project is sponsored by Red Hat that… Continue Reading →
Since starting the daily dose of rawhide I am gradually becoming more acquainted with the ins and outs of rawhide. A particular day or release of rawhide only exists for a twenty-four hour period–longer if something goes wrong with the… Continue Reading →
Yesterday afternoon I posted to fedora-test-list about an opportunity to help triage bugs which had been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days. At the time of my posting there were approximately 175 Fedora 7 bugs in NEEDINFO…. today, hardly… Continue Reading →
All of the features are complete for Fedora 9. Thanks to all the feature owners and package maintainers for making all of the new features and innovations happen in Fedora 9! The final feature list is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList All in… Continue Reading →
For the past few weeks I’ve taken up a new experiment–attempting to install rawhide every day. Rawhide is unique in that it is a daily development snapshot that only exists publicly for one day. If you have disc space, naturally… Continue Reading →
Of late I’ve been trying to get more involved in the local tech scene where I live. On Saturday I went to check out Startupalooza and had no idea what to expect. It was superb in every respect. The facilities… Continue Reading →
Have you ever had a job you did not like? This book–described as a page turner by one reviewer–is a fable illustrating what separates good jobs from bad ones. I think it also speaks clearly to the keys for success… Continue Reading →
I first became interested in using jigdo (Jigsaw Download) during the test releases for Fedora 8. I was spending a lot of time getting the DVD ISOs over bittorrent and was annoyed that in all probability I already had packages… Continue Reading →
Nice to see a few recent posts on GTD (Getting Things Done) on Planet Fedora by Paul Frields and Luis Villa. I haven’t had time to read the book yet, but I have heard really good things about it. I… Continue Reading →
Robert Safian, editor of the excellent magazine Fast Company, writes a thought provoking introduction titled “Inspiration and Perspiration” in the latest issue. It is the background to the issue’s cover story about Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe for the February 2008… Continue Reading →
As a follow up to a previous post, I have been working with people in each of the Fedora subgroups to collect more information about all that goes into making a Fedora release happen. This information is represented in one… Continue Reading →
A new person recently came to live at our house who has the condition some would describe as colic. After consulting some of the experts (haven’t read the book, but the DVD is really good) we found that one of… Continue Reading →
Yesterday I updated the bios on my Dell PowerEdge 400SC from A04 to A10… the first time it has ever been updated since I bought the box four years ago… finally turning my back on the advice I’ve always heard… Continue Reading →
One thing that could improve the Fedora project is a schedule showing durations–how long tasks take. When making decisions about when to release or freeze we do not currently have the ability to quickly calculate how long something will take…. Continue Reading →
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