Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-42 – 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- 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
- Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
- F37 Final Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F35 | 3975 |
| F36 | 4328 |
| F37 (beta) | 1266 |
| Rawhide | 6487 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Fedora Linux 37
- 714 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.
- 2022-11-01 — Current final target (target date #2)
Changes
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ON_QA | 44 |
| CLOSED | 2 |
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2135772 | gnome-calendar | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 2136234 | kernel | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2136471 | gnome-control-center | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
Fedora Linux 38
- 722 packages fail to build from source
- 28 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 | FESCo #2881 |
| PostgreSQL 15 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2882 |
| Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable) | System-Wide | Announced |
| LXQt image for aarch64 | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Modernize Live Media | System-Wide | 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.