Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2021-49 – 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)!
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Announcements
- Congratulations to the winners of the F35 elections
- The Taiga instance on teams.fedoraproject.org will be retired on 17 December.
- Red Hat is hiring a software engineer to work on Toolbx.
- The Anaconda upstream mailing list is moving. You will need to resubscribe on the new list.
- EPEL 9 is now available
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distributions DevRoom @ FOSDEM | virtual | 5–6 Feb | closes 20 Dec |
| CentOS Dojo @ FOSDEM | virtual | 3–4 Feb | closes 9 Jan |
| Red Hat Summit | TBD | late spring | closes 5 Jan |
Help wanted
- 319 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Upcoming test days
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 5512 |
| F35 | 2135 |
| F36 (rawhide) | 6805 |
Fedora Linux 36
- 282 packages fail to build from source
- 62 packages fail to install
Schedule
- 2021-12-22 — Deadline for Change proposals that require infrastructure changes
- 2021-12-28 — Deadline for System-Wide Change proposals and proposals that require mass rebuild
- 2022-01-18 — Deadline for Self-Contained Change proposals
- 2022-01-19 — Mass rebuild begins
- 2022-02-08 — F36 branches from Rawhide; Rawhide begins F37 development
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ostree native containers / CoreOS layering | System-Wide | Approved |
| Plocate as the default locate implementation | Self-Contained | Approved |
| PostgreSQL 14 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2706 |
| LXQt 1.0.0 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2707 |
| Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI. | Self-Contained | FESCo #2708 |
| Enable fs-verity in RPM | System-Wide | Announced |
| Switch GnuTLS to allowlisting | System-Wide | Announced |
| Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root | System-Wide | Announced |
| Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver | System-Wide | Announced |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.