Seneca breaks silence on Fedora Remix

Chris Tyler posted an update today.

Estimated release date is 20th, but lots of work to do.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-July/003631.html

New estimated release date for Fedora Remix from Chris Tyler:

"aim to ship next week", with 3.2.27 kernel.

http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-09-26/fedora-meeting-1.2012-09-26-20.00.log.html

Also, the RPF is reportedly working with Fedora on firmware licensing:

>> I heard that there won't be an official Fedora build of the Raspberry Pi remix because

>> the firmware license is not compatible with the Fedora firmware guidelines.

>

> Correct at this point in time. I meant an official remix stable release.

> Fedora legal and the board are working with the foundation to try and resolve the firmware issue

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-September/004085.html

> BTW if they have Sold or have orders for .5 million units are they still a minority platform on a minority Arch ?

Don't confuse "secondary" with "minority".

A primary architecture means, among other things, having strict release criteria.

A serious regression that affects a primary architecture will delay a release, but

the same problem affecting only a secondary architecture will not.  A secondary

architecture may not get released at the same time as the primary architectures.

The x86 fedora builds are unified with a single kernel image, not so currently for

ARM, although that's the goal.

Fedora 17 was released on 29 May 2012 for primary architecures.

Fedora 17 for ARM was released on 18 June 2012 for the officially supported ARM

machines, not including the RPi Remix, which is not officially part of Fedora.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora_17_GA

"Raspberry Pi support is not included in Fedora 17 GA because it does not meet the

Fedora release guidelines. Specifically, the Raspberry Pi relies upon a custom kernel

version, not upstream, as well as special GPU binary blobs which are not acceptable

under the current firmware exception."

latest Seneca status (including list of non-excuses) is here:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-October/004230.html

the release early, release often philosophy has been well proven over the years, he really should make the effort. Doing it in an open way could even get them some needed help. Keeping to radio silence behind closed doors isn't going to win them much support.

I know from personal experience that an extra pair of eyes might make all the difference to finding that bug and getting the thing released..

Fedora Remix 17 for RPi has finally been released (soft-float only).

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-November/004366.html

Fedora Remix 18 for RPi has been released (soft-float only).

    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2013-March/005514.html

This is based on the ARMv5 architecture.  The Fedora project has end-of-lifed

the ARMv5 architecture at Fedora 18 although the Seneca group may perhaps

maintain it further for the RPi, or perhaps switch to ARMv6.

Chris Tyler says today:

"There's something good coming down the pipe ... watch for an announcement on May 14."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=42010&start=3

Trying to guess what the good announcement might be, I don't think it will be an

announcement of the long-awaited firmware update to fix the Hynix memory problem,

since that could be fixed at any time by simply copying over the latest version of 2 files.

It might be the long-awaited hard-float version, but there has been no recently reported

progress on that in the fedora arm weekly meetings or mailing list.

It might be RPi educational materials, based on the meeting room reservation for May 9.

http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Meeting_Room_T1042

It might be an announcement of plans for Fedora 19.  The Alpha version of F19 was

released a few days ago for primary architectures, but not ARM, and RPi generally

lags behind the other Fedora ARM releases.

coder27 wrote:

 

Chris Tyler says today:

 

"There's something good coming down the pipe ... watch for an announcement on May 14."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=42010&start=3

 

Trying to guess what the good announcement might be, I don't think it will be an

announcement of the long-awaited firmware update to fix the Hynix memory problem,

since that could be fixed at any time by simply copying over the latest version of 2 files.

 

It might be the long-awaited hard-float version, but there has been no recently reported

progress on that in the fedora arm weekly meetings or mailing list.

 

It might be RPi educational materials, based on the meeting room reservation for May 9.

http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Meeting_Room_T1042

 

It might be an announcement of plans for Fedora 19.  The Alpha version of F19 was

released a few days ago for primary architectures, but not ARM, and RPi generally

lags behind the other Fedora ARM releases.

It's beginning to look like a wind up.

there was an announcement on the 14th - the long awaited camera was released and went on sale.

whether that's what he was hinting at, or not I couldn't say.... but I don't think I'd bother releasing anything on the same day as the camera.

I'm sure that was in fact the "Big Anouncement"  personally I can't see what the camera module has to do with a Fedora Release, unless they planned a release n the same day which supported it?

I managed to get an order in for one of those cameras after a load of hassle the only similarity between them both is that they are both like Unicorn Manure(TM)

the camera board is supposedly still in stock for now, I put my order in earlier today.. I've been watching the '840 in stock' number diminish rapidly ever since.

Currently can't decide if they'll last the day or not..

the camera board is supposedly still in stock for now, I put my order in earlier today.. I've been watching the '840 in stock' number diminish rapidly ever since.

Currently can't decide if they'll last the day or not..

Yeah I was initially directed to the Farnell site and that went buy 9.30am yesterday !!

Also they have implemented strict one per customer limitations.

I hope to get mine soon as I ordered it yesterday and normally CPC do next day

I live in hope ......or at least where a few Unicorns run about

John Alexander wrote:

 

Yeah I was initially directed to the Farnell site and that went buy 9.30am yesterday !!

Also they have implemented strict one per customer limitations.

I hope to get mine soon as I ordered it yesterday and normally CPC do next day

Interesting that CPC have done a one-per-customer thing again (and out of stock already), there's absolutely no indication of anything like that on the farnell site