17:01:59 #startmeeting 17:01:59 Meeting started Thu May 26 17:01:59 2011 UTC. The chair is EvilBob-Vote4Me. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:01:59 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 17:01:59 #meetingname irc-support-sig 17:01:59 The meeting name has been set to 'irc-support-sig' 17:01:59 #meetingtopic IRC Support SIG Meeting 17:02:25 Give people a few minutes to roll in 17:02:40 * nirik waves. 17:02:51 Sorry I was a little late was doing some housekeeping that we forgot last week 17:02:51 * DiscordianUK 17:02:51 * mock continues to nom bacon 17:03:18 I'll get started about 5 after the hour 17:03:20 Feel free to reply to this with additional topics, or bring them up in the "Open Floor" section of the meeting. 17:03:40 * mock feels free 17:03:52 mock: Going commando today? 17:04:08 ;) 17:04:10 wearing a kilt 17:04:27 er, not that kind of free 17:04:36 lol 17:04:37 Aye, you don't want to get your bag and your pipes mixed up, laddy 17:04:42 * nirik has a topic. 17:04:49 * Sonar_Gal 17:04:51 nirik: Bacon? 17:05:00 * mock is glad for nirik has-ing a topic 17:05:04 bacon is always on topic. ;) 17:05:12 nirik: +1 17:05:16 OK 17:05:17 #topic Week in Review 17:05:17 #link http://fedora.theglaserfamily.org/ircstats/fedora-weekly.html 17:05:34 Ya'ay, new release week 17:05:49 Lots of "Where can I get my non-free drivers" 17:05:55 pretty busy. 17:06:11 release week, so initial feeding frenzy now lots about drivers, office changing name, gnome3 17:06:48 I'd like to remind helpers to ask people to try the free video drivers. 17:06:58 FInally am running it here, sorting out my personal issues with the GNOME Shell 17:07:05 lots of people seem to rush to the non free ones when there is no longer any need. 17:07:05 nirik: +1 17:07:24 and lots of folk who know better how Fedora 15/gnome 3 should have been 17:08:04 Second Guessing and Arm Chair Quarterbacking is to be expected with any big change 17:08:05 * DiscordianUK finally has gnome 3 running in a VM now 17:08:16 * dcr226 is late 17:08:18 Yeah I guess so 17:08:26 Any other tips? 17:08:42 the GNOME Shell Cheat Sheet 17:08:46 lots of people asking about rpmfusion stable for f15. 17:08:56 the gnome-tweak-tool 17:08:58 EvilBob-Vote4Me: Take a look at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet and install 'gnome-tweak-tool' and see if they provide the feature or item you are looking for. 17:09:07 nirik: thanks 17:09:38 Pre release the @f15release macro was getting hammered 17:10:10 DiscordianUK: Yeah, I think we need to discuss that again before the F16 release 17:10:23 +1 17:10:28 some people insist on hitting it every time the enter the channel 17:10:33 they 17:10:34 Probably make it a botop command 17:10:38 * nirik shrugs. Yeah, but it wasn't too bad I don't think... 17:10:43 open to changing it tho 17:10:54 nirik: It wasn't a huge deal, just a little annoying :) 17:11:00 You see the same thing on centos and the @centos6 macro 17:11:04 would people look it if it was at the topic? 17:11:08 Sysi: No. 17:11:15 People don't read topics 17:11:15 But that's where it'd be. 17:11:16 Sysi: Historically no 17:11:38 Sysi, we have seen over the years that no one reads the topic 17:11:50 ubuntu has -release-party for pre-release bashing 17:11:52 s/the\ topic// 17:12:06 but it's a lot worse there 17:12:20 we have #fedora-social for release party. 17:12:27 The bot could message users on entry with a few short messages 17:12:32 OK any other items that belong here in the weekly review? 17:12:56 alias f16release /topic 17:13:16 Hearing crickets... 17:13:17 #topic Feedback Tickets 17:13:17 #link https://fedorahosted.org/irc-support-sig/report/1 17:13:48 We have one open ticket, congrats to fenrus 17:14:04 well done 17:14:08 kudos 17:14:43 Can we change the "resolution" options at all? 17:14:54 not sure. 17:15:02 They don't really fit what we do 17:15:03 * nirik looks 17:15:53 nope. 17:15:59 Bummer 17:16:04 OK moving on 17:16:04 we can. 17:16:05 when hosted gets upgraded to the new trac we might be able to 17:16:10 daMaestro: ? 17:16:13 daMaestro: oh? do tell 17:16:24 It's a code patch. 17:16:29 We've done it here internally. 17:16:54 I might be able to refactor to make it a plugin. Just need to know what trac version to target. 17:16:55 OK, probably something that would have to go though infrastructure 17:16:57 to which version? 17:17:11 yes. Ideally it would just get added to the epel trac package for all to enjoy. ;) 17:17:15 And in that case we can take it out of band 17:17:24 * nirik nods 17:17:27 #topic Open Floor 17:17:27 Does anyone have anything to add? 17:17:49 I had one item to bring up. 17:17:51 Open Floor, nirik did you have something 17:17:56 Bring it! 17:18:17 There's some folks working on a 'welcome sig'. I think we should reach out and see if we can help them, or at least not hinder them. ;) 17:18:20 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Welcome_SIG 17:18:41 it's early days, but I wanted to mention it. 17:18:53 for new folks coming in from other distros or new to linux in general. 17:19:02 Good idea to help out there I think 17:19:21 cool idea 17:19:28 our 'migration guide' type stuff could better be done there perhaps. 17:19:28 If it turns in to another support venue complete with spoon feeding... Not so sure 17:19:31 i was assigned to write doc about "new to fedora / newcomers from ubuntu" but i haven't been able to register to fs.o (haven't checked email after noting -unity) 17:19:39 I don't think it's an end user channel 17:19:40 * GeneralAccident notes this nick is in use, because my bouncer sux 17:19:58 it's not really much yet. ;) 17:19:59 Sysi: Yeah, not sure if daMaestro has had a chance to look 17:20:10 It's about welcoming folks to fedora more generally 17:20:20 thats all. Wanted to note it and point people to help who wished to. 17:20:38 I have an item... 17:20:42 yeah kudos to them 17:20:50 and me, when you are done EvilBob-Vote4Me 17:20:52 We have two chronic offenders that we all know 17:20:56 nirik, i will try, 2 people on there list i have problems with 17:21:13 They were unbanned and... well they have not changed 17:21:22 indeed 17:21:42 so follow the SOP and ban them 17:21:48 I see no reason to keep them around, they are rude, nasty, disruptive and more 17:22:11 personally I think we should follow our normal process... I know it's a pain to go thru longer and longer bans, but if they are disruptive, it shouldn't be hard. 17:22:19 I have something to bring up. 17:22:37 That's all I have on it, GeneralAccident you are next 17:23:07 EvilBob-Vote4Me, we going to vote on those 2 people? or just note it? 17:23:24 GeneralAccident: We will havup with them it looks likee to put 17:23:35 have to put up 17:23:45 mine was about the DD usb thing, didn't know if I should bring it up; I forgot at week-in-review 17:23:48 Wow, that got all screwed up 17:23:58 GeneralAccident: We will have to put up with them it looks like 17:24:05 yeah, sadly I couldn't *grab that one ;-) 17:24:22 jonez, hang on 17:24:24 Surf's Up 17:24:28 EvilBob-Vote4Me: If they keep it up and they're disruptive, throw 'em overboard. But not "just because" right now. 17:24:28 errk netsplit 17:24:30 that'll be why my bouncer sux then 17:25:12 GeneralAccident: does not look like any of us were involved, go ahead with our discovery 17:25:13 fenrus02++ (disconnected) 17:25:21 so anyway - the Fedora 15 DVD iso is not a hybrid iso, and won't work on certain machines that expect it to be a hdd format 17:25:40 GeneralAccident: When put on a USB device 17:25:42 which is why dd'ing it to a usb stick is failing often 17:25:56 * nirik notes this will hopefully be fixed for f16. 17:25:57 I didn't know we could ever DD the install media to a thumb drive? Is that a new function? 17:26:03 yeah, when its expected to behave like a conventional disk, it wont 17:26:11 Khaytsus, it should do yeah...here's the workaround 17:26:17 nirik, yeah was gonna mention that bit :-) 17:26:26 Is that new though? Last I recall it wasn't expected to work. 17:26:41 I thought it was added, but it wasn't ever. ;) 17:26:49 so, it probibly never worked. 17:27:01 does the dvd then work with unetbootin or something? (live hasn't worked for me) 17:27:02 I have used USB somehow in the past 17:27:16 well, its regularly touted in the channel as being hybrid..and the install guide talks about dd 17:27:23 and as you all know I don't use LiveCDs for installs 17:27:34 Sure, you can use USB. You gotta use livecdiso tools and copy the iso to the thumb drive to use for media. There's a process. Taht's last I know. 17:27:36 all live media and boot.iso are hybrid 17:27:43 Sysi, i have never gotten a good image from unetbootin 17:27:46 install is not, but should be fixed. 17:27:49 (in f16) 17:27:49 so if you install syslinux and run "isohybrid F15.iso" , you can then dd it to the usb thumb 17:28:01 GeneralAccident: Oh, neat. Just that? 17:28:16 GeneralAccident: that whole section of the IG needs work I think, if someone wants to work with docs to improve it I think it would be a good idea 17:28:20 * zcat used the new Multi-Live to install. used livecd-iso-to-disk to partially put it on usb 17:28:26 Khaytsus, yeah..."hybrid" isos just have grub stage1 in the first 512 bytes, CD iso's have zeros 17:28:33 GeneralAccident: Well that's easy 17:28:39 GeneralAccident, get this documented please 17:28:42 Khaytsus: Yeah super easy 17:28:48 Interesting 17:28:58 Southern_Gentlem: It's been mentioned to docs, it's in their court 17:29:24 EvilBob-Vote4Me, they are not on the front lines dealing with this 17:29:31 OK, jonez 17:29:50 Southern_Gentlem, I'll perhaps do a quick how-to on fs.o or something and pass out the link 17:29:55 Can just anyone edit F15 Common Issues? 17:30:03 Khaytsus: I believe so 17:30:04 yeah 17:30:07 Maybe there? 17:30:15 GeneralAccident: Perfect place for it 17:30:21 EvilBob-Vote4Me, common issues? 17:30:22 I forget that it exists 17:30:28 GeneralAccident: Yeah 17:30:28 * Khaytsus points to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList 17:30:34 erm... drat.. 17:30:38 ok, I'll do that shortly 17:31:06 Oh, heh, my links are old. have common12 and common13.. ahem.. anywho. 17:31:53 jonez: last call? 17:33:06 jonez: Catch us on the mailing list, trac or next week? 17:33:14 Going once 17:33:25 Going twice 17:33:30 SOLD! 17:33:34 Bacon! 17:33:50 don't forget botday on the first 17:33:56 Thanks for being here 17:34:06 Bot Day on the first in -social 17:34:09 #endmeeting