Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2023-02 – 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)!
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
- Join the Creative Freedom Summit, hosted by the Fedora Design Team, online 17–19 January. Participate in #creativefreedom:fedora.im on Matrix or watch the live stream on PeerTube.
- Season of KDE 2023 participant and mentor applications are due 15 January.
- Long-term fails-to-build-from-source packages will be retired from F38 and Rawhide approximately 8 February.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hack in Paris | Paris, FR | 26–29 Sep | closes 14 Jan |
| VueConf | New Orleans, LA, US | 25–26 May | closes 15 Jan |
| JS Day Canarias | Tenerife, ES | 25–28 May | closes 15 Jan |
| phpday | Verona, IT | 18–19 May | closes 15 Jan |
| PyCon Italia | Florence, IT | 25–28 May | closes 16 Jan |
| DevConf | Cape Town & Pretoria, ZA | 23 & 25 May | closes 17 Jan |
| WASM IO | Barcelona, ES | 23–24 Mar | closes 17 Jan |
| Container Plumbing Days | virtual | 22–23 Mar | closes 23 Jan |
| MagnoliaJS | Jackson, MS, US | 17–18 Oct | closes 31 Jan |
| jsday | Verona, IT | 13–14 Apr | closes 31 Jan |
| Connectaha | Omaha, NE, US | 24 Apr | closes 31 Jan |
| Open Source Summit North America | Vancouver, BC, CA | 10–12 May | closes 5 Feb |
| Write The Docs | Portland, OR, US | 7–9 May | closes 6 Feb |
| Newcrafts | Paris, FR | 25–26 May | closes 12 Feb |
| Open Source North | St. Paul, MN, US | 24 May | closes 18 Feb |
| Berlin Buzzwords | Berlin, DE | 18–20 Jun | closes 19 Feb |
| JSDay IE | Dublin, IE | 26 Sep | closes 28 Feb |
| Scenic City Summit | Chattanooga, TN, US | 2 Jun | closes 1 Mar |
| DevOpsDays Chicago | Chicago, IL, US | 9–10 Aug | closes 17 Mar |
| openSUSE Conference 2023 | Nürnberg, DE | 26–28 May | closes 9 Apr |
| Web Weekend Kathmandu | Kathmandu, NP | 23–24 Sep | closes 21 Apr |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- The fedora-review developers are looking for help
- Submit GNOME project proposals for Outreachy by 7 February.
Upcoming test days
Have a test day idea for Fedora Linux 38? The call for test days is open.
Meetings & events
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
- SPDX Change office hours — 1600 UTC Tuesday in Google Meet (dial-in numbers available)
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F36 | 4585 |
| F37 | 2551 |
| Rawhide | 7263 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2015490 | initial-setup | ASSIGNED |
| 2149632 | gtk3 | NEW |
Fedora Linux 38
- 587 packages fail to build from source
- 60 packages fail to install
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2023-01-17 — Deadline for Self-Contained Changes
- 2023-01-18 — F38 Mass rebuild begins
- 2023-02-07 — F38 branches from Rawhide
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Pyramid 2.0 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Xfce 4.18 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 | System-Wide | Approved |
| X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients | System-Wide | Approved |
| Shorter Shutdown Timer | System-Wide | FESCo #2928 |
| Rpmautospec by Default | System-Wide | FESCo #2930 |
| Noto Fonts For More Languages | System-Wide | FESCo #2931 |
| GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.0, binutils 2.39, glibc 2.37, gdb 12.1) | System-Wide | FESCo #2932 |
| FPC repackaging | Self-Contained | FESCo #2933 |
| TeXLive2022 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2935 |
| Noto CJK Variable Fonts | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Unfiltered Flathub | System-Wide | Announced |
| IPP-USB as a weak dependency of CUPS and sane-airscan | 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.