Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-14

[bcotton (Ben Cotton)]

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

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.