Tempo de mudança: começa o Fedora 10

Não, você não leu errado. Fal­tando ape­nas alguns minu­tos para o lan­ça­mento do Fedora 9 (Sulphur) — 11:00 AM -, o Pro­jeto Fedora já está com as ofi­ci­nas pron­tas e acaba de ini­ciar a pre­pa­ra­ção para o pró­ximo Fedora, a ser lan­çado em novembro.

Mais do que uma sim­ples rele­ase, o novo Fedora 10 será um marco para o pro­jeto, que mudou dras­ti­ca­mente ao longo de seus cinco anos de vida.

Com a mudança, todos os usuá­rios de ver­sões de teste do Fedora 9 (rawhide) serão afe­ta­dos. Rawhide é o nome dado aos Fedo­ras em teste e com o lan­ça­mento do Fedora 9 o novo rawhide é agora o Fedora 10, por­tanto, se você pre­tende con­ti­nuar a usar o Fedora 9 (Rawhide), pre­cisa mudar os repo­si­tó­rios do seu YUM, caso con­trá­rio, paco­tes do Fedora 10 come­ça­rão a ser ins­ta­la­dos nas pró­xi­mas atualizações.

O que se sabe de con­creto sobre o Fedora 10 é que muita coisa vai mudar. Há boa­tos de que o codi­nome será obtido de uma forma total­mente nova em vez do popu­lar quebra-cabeça usado até então. Há rumo­res, tam­bém, de que o velho e conhe­cido logo vai ser refor­mu­lado para algo mais moderno e de que a nume­ra­ção dos Fedo­ras, logo depois do 10, vai mudar para algo mais sim­ples, como X1, X2, X3… mas isso são ape­nas con­ver­sas nos cor­re­do­res do projeto.

Enfim, na noite de ontem o líder do Pro­jeto, Paul Fri­elds enviou um longo e-mail, para­be­ni­zando os mem­bros do Pro­jeto pelo tra­ba­lho com o Fedora 9, comen­tou sobre a grande feli­ci­dade de estar à frente do Pro­jeto agora no Fedora 9 e da emo­ção em ser o res­pon­sá­vel pelo Fedora 10, que será um marco.

Deixo aqui o e-mail na ínte­gra e desejo a todos uma boa expe­ri­ên­cia com o Fedora 9 (Sulphur).

Bons down­lo­ads, pessoal.

Hello Fedora com­mu­nity — I wan­ted to take the occa­sion of my first
rele­ase as Fedora Pro­ject Lea­der to say a few — OK, not so few — words
to everyone about what this rele­ase means to me, and what I hope you see
in it too.

 * * *

My daugh­ter Evie, who’s seven years old, has become a really avid
astro­nomy buff lately. Prac­ti­cally every book she brings home from
school and the public library are all about pla­nets, comets, the solar
sys­tem, the uni­verse. It’s been fun tal­king to her about all the stuff
I used to enjoy studying when I was lit­tle. Recen­tly we took her to an
obser­va­tion night out with the local Astro­nomy Club, and she got to look
through a real teles­cope at the stars and planets.

Thanks to light’s finite speed, the ima­ges of some of the stars you see
through the teles­cope have taken mil­li­ons of years to reach your
eye. When you look through a teles­cope at the stars, you’re loo­king
back in time — at the past, as it were.

In about 12 hours, more or less, the offi­cial rele­ase of Fedora 9 will
be out the door, and we’ll all imme­di­a­tely start loo­king toward Fedora
10’s rele­ase, appro­xi­ma­tely six months from now. But before we do that,
I wan­ted to pick up the Fedora teles­cope and aim it back at *our* recent
past.

 * * *

It’s been less than five years since the first rele­ase of Fedora (back
when it was cal­led Fedora Core), and in that time Fedora has become not
just a vibrant, inno­va­tive, and extre­mely popu­lar Linux dis­tri­bu­tion,
but also a thri­ving com­mu­nity. A com­mu­nity that beli­e­ves that free and
open source soft­ware is not just something you *use*, it’s something you
*do* — something to which you *contribute*.

Loo­king into the eye­pi­ece of that Fedora teles­cope shows how hard we’ve
wor­ked in buil­ding a model of col­la­bo­ra­tive work and trust, based and
built on enti­rely free and open source soft­ware, across an entire
popu­la­tion of con­tri­bu­tors. We use that model for everything from our
web sites to our artwork to our build systems.

We’ve gone from the musty old past of a tigh­tly con­trol­led, walled-off
sys­tem of code and con­tent, to a bright, clear pre­sent in which we
par­ti­ci­pate equally on the basis of kno­wledge, ambi­tion, and enthu­si­asm.
We’ve gone from an awkward, stra­ti­fied sys­tem of direc­tion to a
fle­xi­ble, open one in which any con­tri­bu­tor can help deter­mine the
future of Fedora through self-actualization.

During the time that image has been tra­ve­ling to meet us, our own past
now seen cle­arly through the view­fin­der, we’ve come such a long way!
Just in the last year alone, look at what we’ve achieved:

* Two-thirds of the main­tai­ners of the thou­sands of soft­ware pac­ka­ges in
Fedora are volun­teer com­mu­nity mem­bers. Our main­tai­ners range from
peo­ple like Hans de Goede, who main­tains hun­dreds of pac­ka­ges as a
volun­teer con­tri­bu­tor; to teams like Dave Jones, Kyle McMar­tin, and
Chuck Ebbert, who all work on the ker­nel pac­ka­ges that power Fedora for
almost every sin­gle user; to the many con­tri­bu­tors that watch over that
one spe­cial pac­kage that mat­ters to them and, ine­vi­ta­bly, many others.

* The num­ber of Ambas­sa­dors has dou­bled, acti­vely brin­ging Fedora to
every cor­ner of the globe, from Italy to Ithaca, from Ber­lin to Bang­kok,
from one fre­e­dom lover to another, empowe­red by a dedi­ca­ted ste­e­ring
com­mit­tee led by volun­teer Fran­cesco Ugo­lini. Today, and in days to
come, our Ambas­sa­dors around the world are hol­ding rele­ase par­ties to
cele­brate the achi­e­ve­ment of Fedora 9 and the com­mu­nity spi­rit that
powers it.

* We have about 2,000 con­tri­bu­tors throughout the Fedora Pro­ject, 75% of
them volun­te­ers, and they’re acti­vely invol­ved in every part of Fedora,
from cre­a­ting stun­ning digi­tal artwork, like the disc sle­e­ves cre­a­ted by
volun­teer con­tri­bu­tor Ryan Lerch, to trans­la­ting soft­ware and
docu­men­ta­tion into dozens of languages.

* The Fedora Loca­li­za­tion (L10N) Pro­ject now has its own elec­ted
ste­e­ring group of com­mu­nity mem­bers to bring together the work of
hun­dreds of trans­la­tors. Our trans­la­tion teams now have the power to
join together ups­tream and downs­tream for­ces using the nexus of
Tran­si­fex, a power­ful web-based trans­la­tion sys­tem (ori­gi­nally con­cei­ved
and writ­ten by volun­teer con­tri­bu­tor Dimi­tris Gle­zos) that makes it easy
for anyone to con­tri­bute trans­la­ti­ons to Fedora or any of coun­tless
ups­tream soft­ware projects.

* We have the abi­lity to form com­mu­ni­ties of deve­lop­ment around any
con­cei­va­ble area in which Fedora is use­ful. We have a team that
pro­du­ced KDE 4 for rele­ase in Fedora 9, powe­red by volun­te­ers such as
Rex Die­ter, Sebas­tien Vahl, and Kevin Kofler, and part­ne­red with Red Hat
engi­ne­ers like Than Ngo; a renewed bug tri­age team led by volun­teer Jon
Stan­ley; and even a new Robo­tics SIG for pushing new fron­ti­ers of
sci­ence, mecha­nics, and engineering.

* Fedora 8 (Werewolf) has rac­ked up over 2.25 mil­lion users in a half
a year, and ship­ped more tor­rents than any pre­vi­ous rele­ase of Fedora –
in fact, 35% more tor­rents than the pre­vi­ous rele­ase, Fedora 7
(Moonshine).

* It’s now easier to join Fedora than ever, with a click-through
account sys­tem that’s as sim­ple to use as any social networ­king site.
And soon all our Fedora web appli­ca­ti­ons will use the same account so
you’ll have access to a huge array of capa­bi­li­ties through a sin­gle
sign-on. Go to http://join.fedoraproject.org/ and check it out!

* With a lit­tle bandwidth and hard disk space, an hour or two of spare
time, and a cou­ple of com­mands, anyone in the world can pro­duce a
wor­king CD or DVD ins­tal­la­tion set, or cre­ate a run­na­ble Fedora sys­tem
on a Live disc or USB key. In Fedora, The Remix Rules. You can even
cre­ate a Live USB key in Win­dows, thanks to Fedora coder Luke Mac­ken!
And in the coming months we’ll have exci­ting new ways for you to share
those remi­xes with others.…

* The Fedora Pro­ject Board now has evol­ved from a fully appoin­ted group
to a majo­rity of community-elected seats, where the mem­bers come from
all parts of the Fedora Pro­ject and work on com­mu­nity empower­ment and
gene­ral policy issues.

* Our Web­si­tes and Infras­truc­ture teams have com­ple­tely res­truc­tu­red the
way we do busi­ness daily, tur­ning out exci­ting and power­ful web
appli­ca­ti­ons with incre­a­sing speed and con­sis­tency. Over time, I expect
Fedora will become the blu­e­print for open source pro­jects, from garage
hob­bies to glo­bal concerns.

 * * *

It’s hard to beli­eve all of the ama­zing new fea­tu­res in Fedora 9 came
together so quic­kly. Thanks to the tire­less work of hun­dreds of FOSS
deve­lo­pers, and the wat­ch­ful eye of our Fea­ture Wran­gler, John Poels­tra,
we were able to get a huge num­ber of cool, shiny things into the
dis­tri­bu­tion.

LiveUSB, Pac­ka­ge­Kit, Policy­Kit, Fre­eIPA, easy par­ti­tion resi­zing,
one-click encryp­tion, RandR sup­port and a fas­ter X, TeX­Live, Fire­fox 3,
GVFS, ext4, GCC 4.3, and so much more.… There are far too many
impro­ve­ments to list them all, but cer­tainly even to the naked eye there
are worlds of dif­fe­rence between our pre­sent and our past — and the
change is overwhel­min­gly for the bet­ter! Go check out the full list
at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList on the wiki.

All of this work is done with our cons­tant, unwa­ve­ring com­mit­ment to
ups­tream — making sure that the Fedora Pro­ject always dona­tes back to
the source from which we draw. When we find oppor­tu­ni­ties for
impro­ve­ment, we share that with our ups­tream con­tri­bu­tors to make sure
that all open source par­ti­ci­pants benefit.

By being good citi­zens of the free and open source soft­ware com­mu­nity,
we ensure the health and pro­gres­sion of thou­sands of pro­jects that make
the Fedora dis­tri­bu­tion a vehi­cle for advan­cing fre­e­dom. You can read
more about this phi­lo­sophy at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream on the
Fedora wiki.

And always, we con­ti­nue to use our own work for everything we do. We
push the impro­ve­ments and results out as 100% free and open source,
avai­la­ble for everyone to use, poke, prod, and build upon.

That’s why Fedora is so much more than a Linux dis­tri­bu­tion. It’s a
mind­set — “Doing The Right Thing,” as we like to say. Giving cre­dit
where cre­dit is due, and wor­king hand-in-hand with others, but not being
afraid to stand apart when doing otherwise means sacri­fi­cing hard-won
ground.

But most impor­tan­tly, Fedora is a com­mu­nity, where peo­ple come together
for a com­mon good — making it pos­si­ble for every human being,
everywhere to have the same access to infor­ma­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tion,
stan­dards, and knowledge.

* * *

In six months, around the begin­ning of Novem­ber, you’ll see Fedora 10 –
and over the next few weeks you’ll start hea­ring more about what that
rele­ase will bring. I urge you, if you’re still on the fence about
get­ting invol­ved, to visit http://join.fedoraproject.org/ and cre­ate an
account. Intro­duce your­self to peo­ple. Keep your eyes, ears, heart,
and mind open. And pre­pare your­self for an exci­ting journey!

I star­ted in the Fedora Pro­ject as a volun­teer, with wide eyes, a
wil­ling­ness to learn, and a love for free and open source ideas. Four
and a half years later, I still can’t quite beli­eve that I get to spend
all day on what used to be one of my hob­bies. The ONLY rea­son I’m here
is because of the remar­ka­ble peo­ple in the Fedora com­mu­nity, and the
good things you do every day to make this world a bet­ter place.

Con­gra­tu­la­ti­ons to everyone who wor­ked on the rele­ase of Sulphur!

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