I have now been doing Fedora Release Engineering for nearly 5 years. My first task was to rebuild every Fedora Core package for a gcc change leading up to the release of Fedora Core 5 (hey look, a --turbo option!). I've seen us through 10 releases, the merger of Core and Extras, countless mass rebuilds, the creation of Live Media and the ( Read more... )

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Do you use emacs? Do you use git? Do you use the emacs git integration system? Are you willing to do some tests on an EL-5 (RHEL 5 or CentOS 5) system? Please make yourself known at this bug.

Like a few people I'm here in Zurich for FUDCon. This is my second European event and I'm excited ( Read more... )

I love python. I love vim, and I'm growing to love Eclipse. Until recently I thought I could only enjoy python and vim, or python and Ecilpse, but not Eclipse and vim. At least not freely. That has changed.

Vrapper is a GPLv3 licensed vim emulator for Eclipse. It doesn't work by replacing the editor like some others, it wraps the existing ( Read more... )

Do you want to work on some software that will be used by every Fedora packager?

Do you like hacking in python?

Do you have a thing for git?

Well have I got a project for you!!!

The Dist Git Project is back in action and steaming ahead to try and finish before we branch for Fedora 14. Currently I'm working on fedpkg the software to replace our ( Read more... )

Once again we've done a Fedora release. This happens twice a year, and every time it happens I have a sudden gear shift to work through. The three months or so after a release are relatively quiet for release engineering. There are few fires, and fewer milestones to worry about. It's during this time that we work on our longer term projects, ( Read more... )

The time has come to bite the bullet and move Fedora's package source control on from CVS. CVS has done is well, and although it is a decaying source control, it handled our needs rather well for many years. However nothing is a constant, and over time more and more cracks have shown up in our source control. The time to move on is now, and I ( Read more... )

I'm back in the USA, having just attended FUDCon Toronto 2009. I haven't blogged about this before due to the state of both the hotel and the campus Internet offerings ( Read more... )

Fedora 12 released today, go get it. This is the 8th Fedora release I've had the pleasure of being paid to work on in a release engineering role. It has been a long and hard trip, but with lots of rewards along the way. Our community is stronger than ever, with more volunteer (both outside and inside Red Hat) people taking up leadership roles or ( Read more... )