Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2023-13 – 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 F38 release.
- Check your meetings for upcoming summer time changes.
- Save 1–5 August for Flock to Fedora in Cork, IE.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| TechBash | Mount Pocono, PA, US | 7–10 Nov | closes 11 Apr |
| Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference | Portland, OR, US and virtual | 9–11 Oct | closes 16 Apr |
| Web Weekend Kathmandu | Kathmandu, NP | 23–24 Sep | closes 21 Apr |
| DevRelCon London | London, UK | 7–8 Sep | closes 21 Apr |
| Cincy Deliver | Cincinnati, OH, US | 28 Jul | closes 30 Apr |
| ShipIt Con | Dublin, IE | 1 Sep | closes 1 May |
| Indy.Code() | Indianapolis, IN, US | 10–11 Aug | closes 30 Apr |
| FOSS Security Campus | Berlin, DE | 26–29 Sep | closes 14 May |
| React Norway | Larvik, NO | 16 Jun | closes 15 May |
| Write The Docs Atlantic | virtual | 10–12 Sep | closes 15 May |
| Front Conference | Zurich, CH | 31 Aug–1 Sep | closes 31 May |
| Inclusive Design 24 | virtual | 21 Sep | closes 4 Jun |
| NodeConf EU | Kilkenny, IE | 6–8 Nov | closes 28 Jun |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Upcoming test days
- 3–7 April — IoT test week
Meetings & events
- Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- Program Manager Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1800 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
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F36 | 4502 |
| F37 | 3950 |
| F38 (pre-release) | 1158 |
| Rawhide | 6892 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2015490 | initial-setup | ON_QA |
Fedora Linux 38
- 710 packages fail to build from source
- 31 packages fail to install
Blockers
| Bug | Component | Status | Blocker status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2171350 | kernel | NEW | Accepted (Final) |
| 2179591 | plasma-workspace | NEW | Accepted (Final) |
| 2113005 | shim | NEW | Accepted (Final) |
| 2177153 | abrt | VERIFIED | Proposed (Final) |
| 2183034 | podman | NEW | Proposed (Final) |
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2023-04-04 — Final freeze begins
- 2023-04-18 — Final release early target date
Changes
The table below lists Changes status. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for more information.
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ASSIGNED | 3 |
| MODIFIED | 1 |
| ON_QA | 45 |
| CLOSED | 2 |
Fedora Linux 39
- 499 packages fail to build from source
- 47 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SPDX License Phase 2 | System-Wide | FESCo #2972 |
| EC2 AMIs default to the gp3 EBS volume type | Self-Contained | FESCo #2974 |
| Register EC2 Cloud Images with IMDSv2-only AMI flag | Self-Contained | FESCo #2975 |
| Changes of defaults in createrepo_c-1.0.0 | System-Wide | FESCo #2976 |
| Register EC2 Cloud Images with uefi-preferred AMI flag | Self-Contained | Announced |
| RPM 4.19 | 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.