Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-14 – 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)! The Final freeze is underway. The F34 Final Go/No-Go meeting is Thursday.
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
- The F34 Final freeze is underway.
- The localization statistics dashboard is now available in staging.
- I intend to disable the fedora_requires_release_note flag in Bugzilla on 16 April.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| elementary Developer Weekend | virtual | 26-27 June | closes ~20 Apr |
| All Things Open | virtual | 17-19 Oct | closes 30 Apr |
| Akademy | virtual | 18-25 June | closes 2 May |
| openSUSE Virtual Conference | virtual | 18-20 June | closes 4 May |
| DevConf.US | virtual | 2-3 Sep | closes 31 May |
Help wanted
- 142 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- I’m looking for a few contributors to join the new program management team.
Upcoming test days
- 12-13 Apr: Bootloader Test Day
- 13 Apr: Virtualization Test Day
- 12-16 Apr: IoT Test Week
Prioritized Bugs
- See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- F34 Final go/no-go meeting 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix
Releases
Fedora Linux 34
Schedule
Upcoming key schedule milestones:
- 2021-04-20 — Final release early target
- 2021-04-27 — Final release target #1
Changes
Change tracker bug status. See the ChangeSet page for details of approved changes.
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ASSIGNED | 1 |
| ON_QA | 51 |
| CLOSED | 4 |
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929643 | sddm | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 1938630 | shim | POST | Accepted(Final) |
| 1943943 | plasma-discover | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 1947157 | anaconda | POST | Accepted(Final) |
| 1946074 | dracut | ON_QA | Accepted(Final) |
| 1946278 | uboot-tools | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Final) |
| 1947704 | fedora-release | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 1947446 | kde-settings | ON_QA | Proposed(Final) |
Fedora Linux 35
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Reduce dependencies on python3-setuptools | System-Wide | Approved |
| RPM 4.17 | System-Wide | FESCo #2593 |
| Smaller Container Base Image (remove sssd-client, util-linux, shadow-utils) | Self-Contained | FESCo #2594 |
| Erlang 24 | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Switching Cyrus Sasl from BerkeleyDB to GDBM | System-Wide | Announced |
| Debuginfod By Default | Self-Contained | 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.