Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-17 – 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 F36 Final freeze is underway. F36 Final is on track for target date #3 (2022-05-10).
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
- F36 Final freeze began 2022-04-05.
- The F36 Release Party will be 13–14 May.
- Backwards-incompatible changes will come when Bodhi 6.0 is deployed after the F36 release.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| DevConf.US | Boston, MA | 18–20 Aug | closes 30 Apr |
| Container Days | Hamburg, DE & virtual | 5–7 Sep | closes 30 Apr |
| ShipItCon | Dublin, IE | Sep | closes 30 Apr |
| RustConf | Portland, OR, US & virtual | 4–5 Aug | closes 8 May |
| DDD Perth | Perth, AU | 9 Sep | closes 27 May |
| Open Source Summit Europe | Dublin, IE & virtual | 13–16 Sep | closes 30 May |
| #a11yTO | Toronto, ON, CA & virtual | 20–21 Oct | closes 31 May |
| PyCon SK | Bratislava, SK | 9–11 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| SREcon22 EMEA | Amsterdam, NL | 25–27 Oct | closes 30 Jun |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1955416 | shim | POST |
Meetings & events
- Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
- F36 Final Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 5227 |
| F35 | 4155 |
| F36 (pre-release) | 1793 |
| Rawhide | 6757 |
Fedora Linux 36
- 602 packages fail to build from source
- 50 packages fail to install
Schedule
- 2022-05-10 — Target date #3
See the schedule website for the full schedule.
Changes
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ON_QA | 49 |
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2056303 | selinux-policy | ON_QA | Accepted(Final) |
| 2079308 | gnome-photos | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 2079344 | gnome-photos | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 2072070 | wpa_supplicant | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 2079274 | gnome-contacts | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
Fedora Linux 37
- 624 packages fail to build from source
- 62 packages fail to install
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root | System-Wide | FESCo #2713 |
| Deprecate Legacy BIOS | System-Wide | Rejected |
| RPM 4.18 | System-Wide | Approved |
| Legacy Xorg Driver Removal | System-Wide | Approved |
| Haskell GHC 9 & Stackage LTS 19 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Replace jwhois package with whois for Fedora Workstation | Self-Contained | FESCo #2785 |
Fedora Linux 38
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Major upgrade of Microdnf | Self-Contained | FESCo #2784 |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.