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Today I wanted to review a package, but lots of review requests I searched, that are not already assigned to somebody are still in an unfinished state. There are already some issues raised that the submitter did not yet address.

There is a way to mark these review requests: Add NotReady to the status whiteboard of the review request. By adding this, interested maintainers can easily filter out review requests, that do not yet need their attention. The cached review requests already filters these review requests out. Once the issues are addressed, the submitter can just remove the entry from the status whiteboard.

So please use the NotReady entry in the future if you found some blocking issues in a review request, to make it easier to find bug reports that need attention by a reviewer.

I just registered for BruCON, because the early bird tickets are only available for two more days. Will you come, too? It would be nice to meet some Fedorians there, but I guess I would have more luck at some generic FOSS conference.

I wonder how well known it is that installing mock and adding a user to the mock groups means giving this user root access most of the time. I know the authors of mock now and also some people on fedora-devel, but did you know? In case you wonder how it works, here is one way to do this:

$ /usr/bin/mock --init -r fedora-10-i386
$ /usr/bin/mock --shell -r fedora-10-i386
mock-chroot> chmod u+s bin/bash
$ /var/lib/mock/fedora-10-i386/root/bin/bash -p
# cat /etc/shadow

On the FESCo meeting on 2008-09-17 the removal of the force-tag make target was decided. But it was also decided to still allow to change cvs tags using

TAG_OPTS=-F make tag

If you want your force-tag target back, simply add this to your ~/.cvspkgsrc file (the first character of the second line should be a tab character):

force-tag: $(SPECFILE) $(COMMON_DIR)/branches
@$(MAKE) tag TAG_OPTS="-F $(TAG_OPTS)"

To ease your life, you can also download this code from my fedorapeople space.

secure:

ssh fedorapeople.org cat /home/fedora/till/public_html/files/cvspkgsrc-force-tag.gmk >> .cvspkgsrc


insecure:

curl http://till.fedorapeople.org/files/cvspkgsrc-force-tag.gmk >> .cvspkgsrc


Don’t forget to check your .cvspkgsrc afterwards.

The Package Review SIG created some webpages that cache bugzilla queries of package review requests. The pages are currently updated every hour and are a lot faster to load than doing direct queries at bugzilla. This is not something new, but it would be nice if 719 of you readers would pick up a ticket from the unassigned list and perform a review. ;-)

Here are the lists:

Unassigned Review Requests – Review Requests in progress – Accepted Review Requests – Rejected Review Requests

Hello fellow Fedorians, I was so happy when I noticed that the 25C3 was added to the Fedora events page, to meet more of you in person. But now I checked who will be there and noticed, that there is only one other one other attendee. I guess you all did not notice, that there is a event page for The Congress, but you know now. :-) So please add yourself now! And don’t forget to join the GPG-keysigning event.

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So this is my new blog. Thank you very much Max for hosting it and importing the posts from my old blog!
Let’s see, what I will do with it. Until now, I only blogged about some special configurations of my Thinkpad X41 notebook. The main reasons were to have the information easily accessible and to feel, how it is to blog. ;-) There were not many posts, because the Thinkwiki answers already the most questions. I have already some ideas for new posts about linux in general and especially Fedora and CentOS, which are my favourite distributions. Also I will cover other topics, but probably not everything in two languages.

Dies ist also mein neues Blog. Danke Max für’s Hosting und Importieren der Beiträge von meinem alten Blog! Mal schauen, was ich jetzt so alles hier anstellen werde.
Bisher habe ich nur über ein paar Eigenheiten des Setups von meine Thinkpad X41 Notebook gebloggt, vor allem um die Information leicht greifbar zu haben und mal auszutesten, wie sich “bloggen” anfühlt. ;-) Insgesamt waren das aber nicht so viele Beiträge, da das Thinkwiki die meisten Fragen zu Thinkpads schon beantwortet. Ich habe jetzt aber auch schon ein paar Ideen zu neuen Beiträgen über Linux allgemein, besonders über Fedora und CentOS, meinen Lieblingsdistributionen. Aber ich werde mich auch anderen Themen widmen. Ich werde aber nicht alle Beiträge zweisprachig schreiben.