February 6, 2016 - Brno, CZ
Today I spent the morning looking at very interesting sessions mainly about containers.
Probably the most interesting talk of the day has been the one by Josh Bressers about security.
In the afternoon I’ve had a very pleasant meeting with the Fedora Internationalization team to see where the various community are and what we can do to improve the current situation.
Later I went to the party, but having misinterpreted the situation, I walked with Patrick and Ralph to their meeting place before going to the right location.
Walking with Patrick and Ralph has been very interesting.
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February 5, 2016 - Brno, CZ
This morning things started in the right way.
My day started with Tim Burke’s talk and it was very interesting.
After that talk, I attended the Adam Miller talk about immutable infrastructures and Daniel Walsh talk about Docker vs Systemd and I enjoyed them all :).
Later on I had a very nice hallway talk with Remy DeCausemaker about local communities and translations, followed by an actual meeting about globalization in Fedora.
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February 4, 2016 - Brno, CZ
Few days past from FOSDEM and I’m at yet another conference!
Today I flew to Wien and then took a train to Brno.
After the hotel check-in I went to the conference location and I had a nice time with the Red Hat people while we were preparing the location for the event.
The majority of the work was already done when I arrived, but few things were still missing (mainly indications to make users life easier like arrows pointing to the rooms, schedules, etc) so I got the opportunity to help :).
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January 27, 2016
A couple of weeks ago, I’ve announced the availability of AWS tools for Fedora.
I’m very happy to announce that today they are available in the EPEL7 repository as well.
The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository is an RPM repository managed by the Fedora community that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL), and Oracle Linux (OL).
As you can imagine, the 7 stays for the version, so only the version 7.x of the named distributions will allow you to install those packages.
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January 16, 2016
In the last few weeks I’ve worked toward bringing the Amazon Web Services tools in Fedora.
The three AWS tools that are coming in the next few days in Fedora are:
- botocore: a low level Python library to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
- boto3: a high level Python library to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
- awscli: a Command Line Interface to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
Botocore just landed in Fedora updates repositories while boto3 and awscli will be pushed to the updates repository tomorrow or Monday morning.
If you want to see them in the repo even sooner test them and give feedbacks, in this way Bodhi will allow those packages to be pushed to the stable repository if feedbacks are positive.
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December 22, 2015
Innotop is a tool that allows you to control the status of a MySQL/MariaDB database.
It is widely used since it shows the data with an interface very similar to the top one.
Lately it’s development has slowed down, but small changes do come regularly.
The biggest change this time (compared to the 1.10.0-0.2 version) is the addition of a patch that allows innotop to work properly with MariaDB 10.1 and 10.2 that has recently hit the Fedora 24 repositories.
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December 18, 2015
In the last few weeks I’ve worked toward bringing qBittorrent 3.3.1 to Fedora and EL7.
Today I’ve requested the stable branch for Fedora 23 and in the next few days I’ll do the same for Fedora and EL7.
Why am I writing about it instead of just leaving the updates come to you with the classical “dnf update”? Simply because this is a huge and very interesting update.
The biggest change in this update has been the switch from Qt4 to Qt5.
It should be pretty stable since qBittorent has been able to compile against Qt5 for more than one year and Fedora already has a lot of Qt5 packages.
So why waiting for such a long period before switching Qt version in Fedora packages?
We decided to respect the upstream decision to wait, so we switched to the Qt5 dependency when they did it.
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December 13, 2015
Few days ago, on November 23, we have had a Fedora 23 release party in Milan, as we announced in the wiki.
This time we did something different from the previous one (the Fedora 21 release party) because we tried to do it in Milan, while the previous time we did it in Cernusco sul Naviglio that is a city very close to Milan.
The number of people that participated at the event was below expectation, but probably this is not only caused by the more central location, but also the limited planning time we had due to the location that has been provided to us by StartMiUp, a coworking space.
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November 23, 2015 - Milano, IT
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