Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-41 – 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)!
Join us on Saturday for a Fedora Week of Diversity celebration.
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
- Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.
- Upcoming and recent summer time changes
- EPEL 8 modules will be sunset on 31 October.
- Registration for the Fedora Linux 37 Release Party is open.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLF | Columbus, OH, US | 2–3 Dec | closes 15 Oct |
| FOSDEM 2023 (devrooms) | Brussels, BE | 4–5 Feb | closes 18 Oct |
| Selenium Conference | Chicago, IL, US | 28–30 Mar | closes 23 Oct |
| SCaLE 20x | Pasadena, CA, US | 9–12 Mar | closes 2 Dec |
| Config Mmanagement Camp | Ghent, BE | 6–8 Feb | closes 4 Dec |
| CypherCon | Milwaukee, WI, US | 30–31 Mar | closes 31 Dec |
| JSDay IE | Dublin, IE | 26 Sep | closes 28 Feb |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
- Updates to deprecated Fedora Developer pages are needed.
Upcoming test days
- 16–24 October — Kernel 6.0 test week
Meetings & events
- Fedora Week of Diversity — 1300–1900 UTC Saturday in Hopin
- Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- 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
- F37 Final Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F35 | 3982 |
| F36 | 4245 |
| F37 (beta) | 1253 |
| Rawhide | 6424 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2129387 | systemd | VERIFIED |
Fedora Linux 37
- 722 packages fail to build from source
- 28 packages fail to install
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2022-10-25 — Current final target (early target date)
Changes
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ON_QA | 44 |
| CLOSED | 2 |
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2128662 | abrt | ON_QA | Accepted(Final) |
| 2129358 | glibc | POST | Accepted(Final) |
| 2132769 | gnome-calendar | VERIFIED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2132772 | gnome-calendar | VERIFIED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2130661 | gnome-contacts | MODIFIED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2134177 | kernel | ON_QA | Accepted(Final) |
Fedora Linux 38
- 729 packages fail to build from source
- 30 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags | System-Wide | FESCo #2817 |
| Deprecate python-toml | Self-Contained | FESCo #2879 |
| RPM Sequoia | System-Wide | Announced |
| PostgreSQL 15 | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable) | System-Wide | Announced |
| LXQt image for aarch64 | Self-Contained | Announced |
Fedora Linux 39
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Replace DNF with DNF5 | System-Wide | FESCo #2870 |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.