Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-07 – 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 Changes should be 100% code complete on Tuesday. The Beta freeze begins Tuesday.
I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.
Announcements
- Inactive provenpackagers will be removed from the group on 24 February.
- DevConf.CZ continues tomorrow. Be sure to check out the Fedora track.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| LISA | virtual | 1-3 June | closes 23 Feb |
Help wanted
- 259 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 and 2100 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1600 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 1400 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. See the ChangeSet page for details of approved changes.
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ASSIGNED | 5 |
| MODIFIED | 19 |
| POST | 1 |
| ON_QA | 30 |
| CLOSED | 3 |
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929940 | dogtak-pki | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
| 1916094 | pipewire | ON_QA | Proposed(Beta) |
| 1928542 | xorg-x11-drv-nouveau | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
Fedora 35
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Autoconf-2.71 | System-Wide | FESCo #2579 |
| 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Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.