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.
• Upcoming and recent summer time changes
• EPEL 8 modules will be sunset on 31 October.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
RSA Conference	San Francisco, CA, US	24–27 Apr	closes 6 Oct
OLF	Columbus, OH, US	2–3 Dec	closes 15 Oct
FOSDEM 2023 (devrooms)	Brussels, BE	4–5 Feb	closes 18 Oct
SCaLE 20x	Pasadena, CA, US	9–12 Mar	closes 2 Dec
CypherCon	Milwaukee, WI, US	30–31 Mar	closes 31 Dec
JSDay IE	Dublin, IE	26 Sep	closes 28 Feb

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 296 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 35 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.
• The Community Platform Engineering team is hiring a software engineer in India

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
• F37 Final Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Week of Diversity — 1300–1900 UTC Saturday 15 October in Hopin

Releases

Release	open bugs
F35	3988
F36	4185
F37 (beta)	1236
Rawhide	6417

Prioritized Bugs

See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Bug ID	Component	Status
2129387	systemd	NEW

Fedora Linux 37

• 735 packages fail to build from source
• 29 packages fail to install

Schedule

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

• 2022-10-18 — Current final target (early target date)

Changes

Status	Count
MODIFIED	1
ON_QA	44
CLOSED	2

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2128662	abrt	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
2131183	anaconda	ON_QA	Accepted(Final)
2129358	glibc	POST	Accepted(Final)
2130964	gnome-calendar	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2130977	gnome-calendar	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2130981	gnome-calendar	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2130657	gnome-contacts	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
2130661	gnome-contacts	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2130661	gnome-shell	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2132769	gnome-calendar	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2132772	gnome-calendar	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2130937	gnome-photos	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2132292	gnome-software	ON_QA	Proposed(Final)
2131673	imsettings	ON_QA	Proposed(Final)
2123998	mesa	ASSIGNED	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 38

• 740 packages fail to build from source
• 30 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
PHP 8.2	Self-Contained	Approved
SWIG 4.1.0	Self-Contained	Approved
Deprecate python-toml	Self-Contained	Announced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
libsoup 3: Part Two	System-Wide	Rejected
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.