[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0005 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 gnome-vfs2 - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0005

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0005.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/gnome-vfs2-2.2.5-2E.3.3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/gnome-vfs2-devel-2.2.5-2E.3.3.ia64.rpm

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0020 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 bind - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0020

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0020.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/bind-9.2.4-23.el3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/bind-chroot-9.2.4-23.el3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/bind-devel-9.2.4-23.el3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/bind-libs-9.2.4-23.el3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/bind-utils-9.2.4-23.el3.ia64.rpm

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Feb Forum Council meeting

Hey guys,

We'd like to get our monthly meeting scheduled on the fridge for the following day/time

Monday, February 16, 2009 at 20:00:00 UTC

Thanks, Ryan Troy (ubuntu-geek)

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:1037 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:1037

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:1037 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:1037

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.29.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0973 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) kernel - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0973

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0973.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-58.EL.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.4.21-58.EL.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.21-58.EL.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-58.EL.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-58.EL.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.4.21-58.EL.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.21-58.EL.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-58.EL.s390x.rpm

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0973 Important CentOS 3 ia64 kernel - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0973

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0973.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-58.EL.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.4.21-58.EL.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.21-58.EL.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-58.EL.ia64.rpm

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Documentation Beat

Due to a new job and having to move I am not, in the forseeable future
going to be able to dedicate time to the Doc beat. This being the case,
if someone wants to take it over, that would be great! TIA...

-Jason

Re: Fedora Weekly News meeting summary 2009-01-30

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:06:44AM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Dale Bewley wrote:
>>
>> This does seem to be handy, if not outisde typical workflow. It doesn't
>> seem complete though:
>>
>> (03:08:31 PM) dbewley1: .fas dale bewley
>> (03:08:33 PM) zodbot: dbewley1: 'dale bewley' Not Found!
>>
>> I checked and I have the 'privacy' box ticked in FAS, so I guess that's
>> why I'm missing.
>
> I can find you with a partial search, don't know why your complete name
> is not listed:
>
> Feb 04 10:00:14 <nicubunu> .fas dale
> Feb 04 10:00:14 <zodbot> westerj 'John Westerdale' <john.westerdale@...>
> - dale '' <dale@...> - pablomvb 'pablo manuel vásquez bardales'
> <pablomvb@...> - dkruse 'Dalen Kruse' <dalen.kruse@...> - gerrygoodale
> 'Gerry Goodale' <gerry.goodale@...> - bdale 'Bdale Garbee' <bdale@...> -
> krupa 'Dale Krupa' <cab580@...> - dalecanter 'Dale Canter'
> <dale.canter@...> - dghartung 'Dale (2 more messages)

Dale, you might want to visit FAS and fill in that info:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/edit/

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Re: Fedora Weekly News meeting summary 2009-01-30

Dale Bewley wrote:
>
> This does seem to be handy, if not outisde typical workflow. It doesn't
> seem complete though:
>
> (03:08:31 PM) dbewley1: .fas dale bewley
> (03:08:33 PM) zodbot: dbewley1: 'dale bewley' Not Found!
>
> I checked and I have the 'privacy' box ticked in FAS, so I guess that's
> why I'm missing.

I can find you with a partial search, don't know why your complete name
is not listed:

Feb 04 10:00:14 <nicubunu> .fas dale
Feb 04 10:00:14 <zodbot> westerj 'John Westerdale' <john.westerdale@...>
- dale '' <dale@...> - pablomvb 'pablo manuel vásquez bardales'
<pablomvb@...> - dkruse 'Dalen Kruse' <dalen.kruse@...> - gerrygoodale
'Gerry Goodale' <gerry.goodale@...> - bdale 'Bdale Garbee' <bdale@...> -
krupa 'Dale Krupa' <cab580@...> - dalecanter 'Dale Canter'
<dale.canter@...> - dghartung 'Dale (2 more messages)

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Workflows: Impact of style changes.

Hi all,

Dale suggested in another thread that it would be interesting to discuss
our work-flows.

The topic which prompted this was our new practice of trying to adhere
to the use of the User:fasname convention to refer to named participants
in conversations. Previously we have just used WikiNames, which for the
most part are modeled FirstnameLastname. The only way to find these
User:fasnames is to search the wiki. The WikiNames are easy to guess
most of the time and require less searching.

I asked in our recent IRC meeting about workflows and was told that most
people just edit the wiki directly. More power to you! I think I would
go nuts trying to do that. I have been using the following chain of
tools.

Writing my Beat:
1. LyX -> 2. ASCII export -> 3. Vim -> 4. Firefox with "It's All Text"
extension to edit wiki.

Preparing mailshot:
1. Firefox -> 2. Vim

LyX: It's main advantage for me was that I could move paragraphs and
sentences around and references would automatically be re-numbered. A
disadvantage was some weird treatment of some diphthongs during export
to ASCII. Something I "kept meaning to fix".

Vim: I have a bunch of macros set up to do things such as: convert
CamelCase to [[CamelCase|Camel Case]] and other handy wiki markup. It's
also great for the mailshot for reformatting the cut and paste from the
wiki page as it allows me to change the indentations in blocks easily.
Change how the headings are formatted and some other stuff.

It's All Text: Suggested to me aeons ago by Karsten Wade. It allows you
to define an editor of your choice (in my case Vim) to be opened to edit
any text area on a webpage. The editor runs as normal except that when
you save/write it pipes the content back into the textarea of the
webpage saving you an irritating cut and paste.

As things stand now I have a nice dictionary of users and their camel
case names and Vim warns me with highlighting if there's a completely
new name. This saves me time in searching/checking names. If there's no
way to get a text file containing fasnames and first+lastnames from the
wiki then I'm condemned to searching for each one manually unless I
learn them! As far as my current workflow goes this change is a
backward step. I'm going to see if I can automate something based on the
zodbot stuff that Dale mentioned.

The references change means that using LyX is now no longer necessary. I
can just cut out that step and use Vim. As far as I'm concerned that's
great. The only possible thing is that I need to figure out a way to
fold/hide the reference so that it's visually less intrusive inline and
I can concentrate on the flow of the text.

Anyway, that's probably more than anyone wanted to know. But I heartily
recommend the "It's All Text" extension[1].

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125

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Re: Fedora Weekly News meeting summary 2009-01-30

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Dale Bewley <dlbewley@lib.ucdavis.edu>
wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:04 -0500, Max Spevack wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Pascal Calarco wrote:
>> > * Pascal will update the FWN StyleGuide to indicate that person
>> > references should ideally reference the appropriate User: wiki page,
>> > if it exists. If it does not, we will use CamelCase references as a
>> > fallback.
>
> Ian Weller tells me FAS users can be queried on IRC by messaging zodbot:
>
> (02:56:24 PM) ianweller: .fas karsten wade
> (02:56:25 PM) zodbot: ianweller: quaid 'Karsten Wade' ..<snip>..
> (02:56:29 PM) ianweller: .wikilink quaid
> (02:56:31 PM) zodbot: ianweller: [[User:quaid|Karsten Wade]]
>
> This does seem to be handy, if not outisde typical workflow. It doesn't
> seem complete though:
>
> (03:08:31 PM) dbewley1: .fas dale bewley
> (03:08:33 PM) zodbot: dbewley1: 'dale bewley' Not Found!
>
> I checked and I have the 'privacy' box ticked in FAS, so I guess that's
> why I'm missing.
>
> I see that to appease the wiki czar, we've so far decided to link to
> [[User:FAS_LOGIN|Full Name]] and fall back to camel case after a manual
> query fails.
>
> To be honest, I'm not very inclined to search for FAS usernames given a
> full name just to link them from the article. I think it would be a
> little too onerous. If camel case names are deemed evil, should we
> discuss how valuable it is to have name links at all? Generally I'm all
> for the more links the better, but I'd prefer to keep things as easy as
> possible on us writers.

I'm in agreement here I think. Unless there's an easy way to find
people's names or guess them then it becomes time-consuming to find them
in the wiki. I was using the wiki advanced search with the User box
ticked and gave up after doing a couple because it took so long. By
comparison it's pretty easy to guess people's CamelCase name in general.

The only way I can think of around this is to obtain a dump of the FAS
usernames correlated to the surname/familyname of the user. We could
probably then use this to build dictionaries for whatever texteditors we
use (see next point).

> Maybe we can discuss beat writer personal workflows. Describe our own
> habits, and pick up some tips from others. Probably best to start a new
> thread for that.

The workflows do indeed make a big difference to what we expect or can
achieve from the above changes. I'll look for the other thread or go
start it now. Mine's a bit wonky but it had distinct advantages until
the above changes!

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Re: Fedora Weekly News meeting summary 2009-01-30

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:04 -0500, Max Spevack wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Pascal Calarco wrote:
> > * Pascal will update the FWN StyleGuide to indicate that person
> > references should ideally reference the appropriate User: wiki page,
> > if it exists. If it does not, we will use CamelCase references as a
> > fallback.

Ian Weller tells me FAS users can be queried on IRC by messaging zodbot:

(02:56:24 PM) ianweller: .fas karsten wade
(02:56:25 PM) zodbot: ianweller: quaid 'Karsten Wade' ..<snip>..
(02:56:29 PM) ianweller: .wikilink quaid
(02:56:31 PM) zodbot: ianweller: [[User:quaid|Karsten Wade]]

This does seem to be handy, if not outisde typical workflow. It doesn't
seem complete though:

(03:08:31 PM) dbewley1: .fas dale bewley
(03:08:33 PM) zodbot: dbewley1: 'dale bewley' Not Found!

I checked and I have the 'privacy' box ticked in FAS, so I guess that's
why I'm missing.

I see that to appease the wiki czar, we've so far decided to link to
[[User:FAS_LOGIN|Full Name]] and fall back to camel case after a manual
query fails.

To be honest, I'm not very inclined to search for FAS usernames given a
full name just to link them from the article. I think it would be a
little too onerous. If camel case names are deemed evil, should we
discuss how valuable it is to have name links at all? Generally I'm all
for the more links the better, but I'd prefer to keep things as easy as
possible on us writers.

Maybe we can discuss beat writer personal workflows. Describe our own
habits, and pick up some tips from others. Probably best to start a new
thread for that.

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