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
• Calls for Participation
• Help wanted
• Meetings & Events
• Releases

Announcements

• Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.
• Packages still needing a Python 3.11 rebuild will be retired before the Final freeze.
• I propose to disable the comps component in Bugzilla on 29 September.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
ConFoo	Montreal, CA	22–24 Feb	closes 23 Sep
geecon	Prague, CZ	24–25 Oct	closes 25 Sep
JavaLand	Brühl, DE	21–23 Mar	closes 26 Sep
Python Web Conf	virtual	14–17 Mar	closes 1 Oct
RSA Conference	San Francisco, CA, US	24–27 Apr	closes 6 Oct
OLF	Columbus, OH, US	2–3 Dec	closes 15 Oct

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 286 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 31 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
• Volunteers needed for Fedora Week of Diversity 2022
• Volunteers needed for Fedora Badges maintenance.

Meetings & events

• Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
• FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F35	4017
F36	4033
F37 (beta)	1205
Rawhide	6264

Fedora Linux 37

• 774 packages fail to build from source
• 56 packages fail to install

Schedule

Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.

• 2022-10-04 — Final freeze begins
• 2022-10-18 — Current final target (early target date)

Changes

Status	Count
MODIFIED	2
ON_QA	43
CLOSED	2

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2088113	anaconda	ON_QA	Accepted(Final)
2123494	gnome-initial-setup	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2121110	gnome-shell	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2121944	greenboot	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2049849	grub2	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2123274	mesa	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2128662	abrt	ASSIGNED	Proposed(Final)
2127618	nautilus	NEW	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 38

• 778 packages fail to build from source
• 51 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
Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags	System-Wide	FESCo #2817
Minizip Renaming	Self-Contained	Approved
Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 2/2	System-Wide	FESCo #2865
Node.js Repackaging	Self-Contained	FESCo #2869
KTLS implementation for GnuTLS	System-Wide	FESCo #2871
PHP 8.2	Self-Contained	Announced
SWIG 4.1.0	Self-Contained	Announced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
libsoup 3: Part Two	System-Wide	FESCo #2863
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.