Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-22 – 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 Linux 34 reaches end of life on Tuesday 7 June.
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 Nest With Fedora CfP is open!
- Fedora Linux 34 will reach end of life on Tuesday 7 June.
- Some docs repos are moving to GitLab.
- Elections voting is open through 16 June.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Code Java | Johannesburg, ZA & hybrid | 12–14 Oct | closes 5 Jun |
| Connect.Tech | Atlanta, GA, US | 7–9 Nov | closes 8 Jun |
| PyCon SK | Bratislava, SK | 9–11 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| SREcon22 EMEA | Amsterdam, NL | 25–27 Oct | closes 30 Jun |
| Write the Docs Prague | virtual | 11–13 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| React India | Goa, IN & virtual | 22–24 Sep | closes 30 Jun |
| NodeConf EU | Kilkenny, IE & virtual | 3–5 Oct | closes 6 Jul |
| Nest With Fedora | virtual | 4–6 Aug | closes 8 Jul |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
- The newly-formed BIOS Boot SIG is looking for contributors.
- Sign up for the Anaconda interface study
- Take the annual Fedora Contributor survey and get a badge!
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
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- Docs presentation changes office hours — 1500 Tuesday in #fedora-meeting-1 and 1900 Thursday in #fedora-meeting-2
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 5991 |
| F35 | 4269 |
| F36 | 2553 |
| Rawhide | 6929 |
Fedora Linux 36
Schedule
- 2022-06-16 — Election voting ends
See the schedule website for the full schedule.
Fedora Linux 37
- 584 packages fail to build from source
- 78 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 1/2 | System-Wide | FESCo #2788 |
| Build all JDKs in Fedora against in-tree libraries and with static stdc++lib | System-Wide | FESCo #2794 |
| BIOS boot.iso with GRUB2 | System-Wide | Approved |
| Install Using GPT on x86_64 BIOS by Default | System-Wide | Approved |
| Enhance Persian Font Support | Self-Contained | FESCo #2801 |
| Return Cloud Base to Edition Status | System-Wide | FESCo #2802 |
| Fallback Hostname | System-Wide | Announced |
| RPM Macros for Build Flags | System-Wide | Announced |
| LLVM 15 | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Supplement of Server distributables by a KVM VM disk image | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Erlang 25 | Self-Contained | Announced |
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 |
| SPDX License Phase 1 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2799 |
Fedora Linux 40
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Retire python3.7 | Self-Contained | Announced |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.