Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2023-08 – 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)!
The F38 Beta freeze is in place. The current F38 Beta target is the early target date (2023-03-14).
I have weekly office hours most Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time). 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 F38 release.
- Fedora Discussion now supports saved searches.
- API keys in Red Hat Bugzilla are now set to expire after one year and will be disabled when they’ve been unused for 30 days.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| JSDay IE | Dublin, IE | 26 Sep | closes 28 Feb |
| Scenic City Summit | Chattanooga, TN, US | 2 Jun | closes 1 Mar |
| SREcon Asia/Pacific | Singapore | 14–16 Jun | closes 2 Mar |
| DevConf.CZ | Brno, Czech Republic | 16-18 Jun | closes 10 Mar |
| DevOpsDays Chicago | Chicago, IL, US | 9–10 Aug | closes 17 Mar |
| FOSSY call for tracks | Portland, OR, US | 13–16 Jul | closes 19 Mar |
| Akademy | Thessaloniki, GR | 15–16 July | closes 30 Mar |
| Container Days | Hamburg, DE | 11–13 Sep | closes 31 Mar |
| DevConf US | Boston, MA, US | 16–18 Aug | closes 3 Apr |
| Upstream | virtual | 7 Jun | closes 7 Apr |
| 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
- Submit proposals for projects and mentors for Outreachy by 24 February.
- Participants wanted for the Display/HDR hackfest in Brno, CZ 24–26 April.
- Please fill out the F37 retrospective survey by 9 March.
Meetings & events
- Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- SPDX Change office hours — 1600 UTC Tuesday in Google Meet (dial-in numbers available)
- Program Manager 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 | 4521 |
| F37 | 3360 |
| F38 (pre-release) | 991 |
| Rawhide | 6827 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2015490 | initial-setup | POST |
Fedora Linux 38
- 824 packages fail to build from source
- 60 packages fail to install
Blockers
| Bug | Component | Status | Blocker status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2149246 | distribution | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Beta) |
| 2168034 | kwin | ON_QA | Accepted(Beta) |
| 2172342 | gdb | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
| 2172406 | pkgconf | ON_QA | Proposed(Beta) |
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2023-03-14 — F38 Beta early target release date
- 2023-03-21 — F38 Beta target release date #1
- 2023-04-04 — Final freeze begins
Changes
The table below lists Changes status. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for more information.
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ASSIGNED | 3 |
| MODIFIED | 2 |
| ON_QA | 44 |
| CLOSED | 2 |
Fedora Linux 39
- 517 packages fail to build from source
- 84 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernize Thread Building Blocks for Fedora 39 | System-Wide | FESCo #2959 |
| MinGW toolchain update | System-Wide | Announced |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.