Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-26 – 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
- The Nest With Fedora CfP is open until 8 July!
- We’re looking for a new Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeConf EU | Kilkenny, IE & virtual | 3–5 Oct | closes 6 Jul |
| Nest With Fedora | virtual | 4–6 Aug | closes 8 Jul |
| Open Source Firmware Conference | Gothenburg, SE | 19–21 Sep | closes 15 Jul |
| CentOS Dojo at DevConf US | Boston, MA, US | 17 Aug | closes 22 Jul |
| dotnetdaysro | Iaşi, RO | 20–22 Oct | closes 31 Jul |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2079833 | cmake | NEW |
Meetings & events
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- FPgM Office Hours — 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Fedora Hatches
Hatches are local, in-person events to augment Nest With Fedora. Here are the upcoming Hatch events.
| Date | Location |
|---|---|
| 6–8 Jul | Pune, IN |
| 13–14 Jul | Cork, IE |
| 21 Jul | Rochester, NY, US |
| 28 Jul | Mexico City, MX |
| 11 Aug | Brno, CZ |
As a reminder, the Nest With Fedora CfP is open. We’ll see you online for Nest With Fedora 4–6 August.
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F35 | 4199 |
| F36 | 3030 |
| Rawhide | 7336 |
Fedora Linux 37
- 567 packages fail to build from source
- 258 packages fail to install
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2022-07-19 — Self-Contained Changes due
- 2022-07-20 — Mass rebuild begins
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fallback Hostname | System-Wide | FESCo #2804 |
| Erlang 25 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags | System-Wide | FESCo #2817 |
| Gettext Runtime Subpackage | System-Wide | Approved |
| Golang 1.19 | System-Wide | Approved |
| Deprecate openssl1.1 package | System-Wide | FESCo #2821 |
| Stratis 3.1.0 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2822 |
| Fedora CoreOS as an edition | System-Wide | Announced |
| MAC Address Policy none | System-Wide | Announced |
| Firefox Langpacks Subpackage | System-Wide | Announced |
| IBus 1.5.27 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Unfiltered Flathub | System-Wide | Announced |
| libsoup 3: Part One | System-Wide | Announced |
| Linux Firmware Minimization | System-Wide | Announced |
| GNU Toolchain Update (glibc 2.36, binutils 2.38) | System-Wide | Announced |
Fedora Linux 40
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Retire python3.7 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2816 |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.