影响 Fedora 12 最终发布日期的不确定事件(数据中心迁移)已被推迟，因此 2009-10-05 会议决定的发布日期得以确认。更新的时间表见 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12

详细的时间表见 http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/

FESco 在 2009-10-05 的 Releng 会议上决定，由于某些 Bug 尚未解决，导致无法马上发布 Fedora 12 Beta 版本。 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-October/msg00244.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F12Beta&hide_resolved=1

这次推迟可能影响 Fedora 12 正式版发布时间(可能推迟到 2009-11-17)，但是影响正式版发布的还有数据中心迁移等不确定因素。2009-10-08 18:00 UTC 的会议中将决定正式版发布的时间。

这次推迟不影响 Beta 冻结，新的特性必须在 Fedora 13 分支上开发。

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue196

根据发布流程，在 Beta 冻结时所有特性应当 100% 完成。Fedora 12 未完成特性有 DisplayPort, LowerProcessCapabilities 和 NFSv4Default，其中 DisplayPort 和 NFSv4Default 在审核后被推迟到 Fedora 13。 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAcceptedF13

在 Beta 冻结前夕 NFSv4Default 特性负责人匆匆提出“最后一步：默认使用 NFSv4”的提议，并表示有兼容性问题需要用户自行解决。这个提议引起极大震动，多数人认为这样做不符合发布流程(Beta 冻结后，只能进行 Bug 修复，而未经测试的特性可能会有不确定的变动 )，且兼容性问题的解决需要有更好方案。 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg00013.html

同样在冻结前美工 Matthias Clasen 提出了一个适合 gnome-shell 的通知主题”slider”，并将它设置为 Fedora 12 的默认主题。但是很多人认为它不太适合目前的 GNOME 或 XFCE 桌面环境。美工团队拒绝修改。 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-September/msg00062.html

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue195

本期主要内容有： 为在德国举办的 Fedora 活动日(FAD)准备的 IRC 频道 #fedora-fad 日前开通；本周内 Fedora 12 特性冻结；FAD EMEA (Fedora 活动日，欧洲)；Utah 开源年会；QA 本周的 Test Day 活动；等等。

Fedora News 团队与 Marketing, Docs 团队即将合作推出 Fedora Insight 平台，发布新闻和文章。

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

— F12 Talking points —

Talking points are more or less done[4] and now ambassadors can start
using them. Ambassadors can choose from various suggestions on using
talking points[5].

4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Talking_Points
5. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2009-September/msg00193.html

— Matchmaking for Feature Profile interviews —

With the F12 talking points out already, we need to start doing print
or podcast interviews around some of the points /features[6]. We
identified the desktop,admin and development users category and
selected 4 talking points that should definitely have interviews to go
along with them- Next-Gen Ogg, NetworkManager enhancements, Virt
improvements, and Systemtap improvements.

The tools / information to start doing interviews are available[7]. If
someone is willing to take something on, please add your name to the
wiki as the owner so we know that we (a) have an owner, and (b) don’t
have 12 owners being redundant.

Paul W. Frields has graciously volunteered to do the SystemTap
interview and has shared a stub page for the systmetap interview he
did in F11[8]. A podcast will be available soon. Thanks Paul!!!

We’re still looking to synchronize interviewees and interviewers[9].

6. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/73
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F12_in-depth_features
8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SystemTap_in_Fedora_12
9. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/73

— Fedora Insight status —

We originally planned to launch Fedora Insight on September 29 (right
before infrastructure freeze), but to get a stable platform up and
tested, with a contribution workflow we’re all happy with, we pushed
the launch date out until right after the freeze instead and moved it
to Oct 14(when the freeze lifts), and the revised schedule is
available[10]. [11][12].

10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Schedule
11. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Fedora+Insight&order=priority
12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule

根据 Fedora 大使邮件列表，Fedora 有一个 twitter 帐号是 https://twitter.com/fedora_linux 但是目前处于无人维护状态。这个帐号在 identi.ca 的对应帐号是 http://identi.ca/fedora 。在 Fedora 12 发布时，这个帐号有望恢复正常。

在 identi.ca 有一个活跃的小组 http://identi.ca/group/fedora 是关于 Fedora 的讨论。FZUG 的小组是 http://identi.ca/group/fzug 。

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