Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2023-18 – 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
- Save 1–5 August for Flock to Fedora in Cork, IE.
- Election nominations close 10 May.
- Fedora Linux 36 reaches end of life on 16 May.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSS Security Campus | Berlin, DE | 26–29 Sep | closes 14 May |
| FOSSY | Portland, OR, US | 13–16 Jun | closes 14 May |
| React Norway | Larvik, NO | 16 Jun | closes 15 May |
| Write The Docs Atlantic | virtual | 10–12 Sep | closes 15 May |
| SREcon EMEA | Dublin, IE | 10–12 Oct | closes 23 May |
| Front Conference | Zurich, CH | 31 Aug–1 Sep | closes 31 May |
| SeaGL | Seattle, WA, US | 3–4 Nov | closes 31 May |
| Inclusive Design 24 | virtual | 21 Sep | closes 4 Jun |
| RubyConf Thailand | Bangkok, TH | 6–7 Oct | closes 4 Jun |
| NodeConf EU | Kilkenny, IE | 6–8 Nov | closes 28 Jun |
| Full Stack Europe | Antwerp, BE | 19–20 Oct | closes 30 Jun |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Meetings & events
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- Program Manager Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1800 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F36 | 4106 |
| F37 | 4151 |
| F38 | 1802 |
| Rawhide | 7023 |
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 |
| 1890085 | anaconda | NEW |
| 2049849 | grub2 | NEW |
Fedora Linux 38
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2023-05-10 — Election nominations end
- 2023-05-19 — Election voting begins
- 2023-06-01 — Election voting ends
Fedora Linux 39
- 497 packages fail to build from source
- 44 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Remove standard storage option from Fedora EC2 images | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Fedora Images on Azure | Self-Contained | FESCo #2988 |
| Increase vm.max_map_count value | System-Wide | FESCo #2993 |
| BiggerESP | Self-Contained | FESCo #2994 |
| Perl 5.38 | System-Wide | FESCo #2991 |
| Lazarus repackaging | Self-Contained | FESCo #2992 |
| mkosi-initrd | Self-Contained | FESCo #2990 |
| Man-pages-ru Retirement | Self-Contained | FESCo #2995 |
| Fedora Onyx | Self-Contained | Announced |
Fedora Linux 40
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Remove webkit2gtk-4.0 API Version | 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.