Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. Final freeze begins Tuesday. Please update the Release Readiness page with your team’s status.
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Announcements
- The Mobility SIG returns!
- Fedora 33 Beta was released on Tuesday
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Linux Fest | Virtual | 5-7 Nov 2020 | Closes 10 Oct |
| Fedora Women’s Day | Virtual | 16-18 Oct 2020 | Closes 11 Oct |
| DevConf.CZ | Virtual | 18-20 Feb 2021 | Closes 1 Nov |
Help wanted
- 207 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Upcoming test days
- 2020-10-05 — Cloud Test Day
Prioritized Bugs
- See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- CPE Product Owner office hours — 1300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on element.io
- Fedora Council Video Meeting — 1700 UTC TThursday on Bluejeans. Guest: Chris Murphy talking about BTRFS
Releases
Fedora 33
Schedule
- 2020-10-06 — Final freeze begins
- 2020-10-20 — Final release preferred target date
- 2020-10-27 — Final release target date #1
The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1816547 | firefox | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Final) |
| 1861700 | sddm | ON_QA | Accepted(Final) |
| 1868141 | gnome-control-center | POST | Accepted(Final) |
| 1880833 | mesa | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 1884260 | cheese | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 1882863 | distribution-gpg-keys | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 1882718 | gnome-remote-desktop | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 1883609 | shim | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
Changes
Bugzilla statuses
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| ASSIGNED | 4 |
| MODIFIED | 4 |
| ON_QA | 37 |
| CLOSED | 11 |
Fedora 34
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping | System-Wide | FESCo #2441 |
| CompilerPolicy Change | System-Wide | FESCo #2409 |
| Rust Crate Packages For Release Branches | System-Wide | FESCo #2472 |
| Move deprecated bluetooth utilities to subpackage | Self-Contained | FESCo #2481 |
| Debug Info Standardization (from DWZ to -fdebug-types-section) | System-Wide | FESCo #2482 |
| [Compress Kernel Firmware])(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompressKernelFirmware) | Self-Contained | Announced |
| DNS Over TLS | System-Wide | Announced |
| Debug Info LLDB Index | System-Wide | Announced |
| Reduce installation media size by eliminating the intermediate EXT4 filesystem in the SquashFS | Self-Contained | Announced |
Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.
CPE update
- Datacenter move
- Communishift will remain offline until further notice
- The infrastructure moves is nearly complete. A list of known issues is available.
- Staging environment is about 70% done
- AAA replacement
- Testing Ipsilon in Staging and adding OpenID Connect capability
- See the GitHub kanban board for more information
- See the CPE weekly for more information
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