Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-06

[bcotton (Ben Cotton)]

Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-06 – Fedora Community Blog

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! Fedora 34 has branched from Rawhide. All changes should be in a testable state.

I have weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

• Announcements
• Calls for Participation
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases

Announcements

• Inactive provenpackagers will be removed from the group on 24 February.
• DevConf.CZ is next week. Be sure to check out the Fedora track on Thursday and Saturday.
• The ELN SIG has launched.
• koji-save-failed-tree is now enabled.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
LISA	virtual	1-3 June	closes 23 Feb

Help wanted

• 260 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Project proposals and mentor volunteers for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 are due by 28 February

Prioritized Bugs

• See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Bug ID	Component	Status
1883609	shim	ASSIGNED

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1800 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix

Releases

Fedora 34

Schedule

Upcoming key schedule milestones:

• 2021-02-23 — Change completion deadline (100% code complete)
• 2021-02-23 — Beta freeze begins
• 2021-03-16 — Beta release early target
• 2021-03-23 — Beta release target #1

Changes

Change tracker bug status

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	15
MODIFIED	25
ON_QA	17
CLOSED	3

Proposal	Type	Status
Make Fedora CoreOS a Fedora Edition	System-Wide	Withdrawn
Remove Guile Support From Toolchain	Self-Contained	Rejected
Introduce module Obsoletes and EOL	System-Wide	Deferred

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1921686	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1921687	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1921688	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1921689	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1927571	kde-settings	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1927968	fedora-repos	ON_QA	Proposed(Beta)
1921947	kwin	ON_QA	Proposed(Beta)
1916094	pulseaudio	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1925423	xorg-x11-drv-qxl	ON_QA	Proposed(Beta)

Fedora 35

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
Add Fedora Kinoite as a variant	Self-Contained	Approved
Autoconf-2.71	System-Wide	Announced
POWER 4k page size	System-Wide	Announced
rpmautospec – removing release and changelog fields from spec files	System-Wide	Announced

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.

Contributing

Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.