Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-45 – 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 37 will be released on Tuesday!
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.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVNEXUS | Atlanta, GA, US | 4–6 Apr | closes 15 Nov |
| SREcon Americas | Santa Clara, CA, US | 21–23 Mar | closes 1 Dec |
| SCaLE 20x | Pasadena, CA, US | 9–12 Mar | closes 2 Dec |
| Config Management Camp | Ghent, BE | 6–8 Feb | closes 4 Dec |
| #a11yTO Camp | Toronto, ON, CA | 21 Jan | closes 4 Dec |
| USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation | Boston, MA, US | 10–13 Jul | closes 6 Dec |
| ElixirConf EU | Lisbon, PT | 20–21 Apr | closes 11 Dec |
| CypherCon | Milwaukee, WI, US | 30–31 Mar | closes 31 Dec |
| JSHeroes | Cluj-Napoca, RO | 18–19 May | closes 31 Dec |
| USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Boston, MA, US | 10–12 Jul | closes 5 Jan |
| Devoxx UK | London, UK | 10–12 May | closes 10 Jan |
| Hack in Paris | Paris, FR | 26–29 Sep | closes 14 Jan |
| DevConf | Cape Town & Pretoria, ZA | 23 & 25 May | closes 17 Jan |
| MagnoliaJS | Jackson, MS, US | 17–18 Oct | closes 31 Jan |
| 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.
Meetings & events
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 1500 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F35 | 3973 |
| F36 | 4529 |
| F37 (beta) | 1316 |
| Rawhide | 6775 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Fedora Linux 37
- 669 packages fail to build from source
- 26 packages fail to install
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2022-11-15 — Current final target (target date #3)
- 2022-11-16 — Election nominations open
Fedora Linux 38
- 682 packages fail to build from source
- 32 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 |
| Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable) | System-Wide | FESCo #2883 |
| Ruby 3.2 | System-Wide | FESCo #2893 |
| MobilityPhoshImage | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by macro | System-Wide | Announced |
| Reproducible builds: Clamp build mtimes to $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH | System-Wide | Announced |
| Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Build Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite using rpm-ostree unified core mode | Self-Contained | Announced |
Fedora Linux 39
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Replace DNF with DNF5 | System-Wide | FESCo #2870 |
| Python 3.12 | System-Wide | Approved |
Fedora Linux 40
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Porting Fedora to Modern C | System-Wide | Approved |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.