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 F38 release.
• Check your meetings for upcoming summer time changes.
• Save 1–5 August for Flock to Fedora in Cork, IE.
• GitHub changed their SSH host key.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Akademy	Thessaloniki, GR	15–16 July	closes 30 Mar
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters (COSCUP)	Taipei, TW	29–30 Jul	closes 30 Mar
Container Days	Hamburg, DE	11–13 Sep	closes 31 Mar
All Things Open	Raleigh, NC, US	15–17 Oct	closes 31 Mar
The Perl and Raku Conference	Toronto, ON, CA	11–13 Jul	closes 31 Mar
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
FOSS Security Campus	Berlin, DE	26–29 Sep	closes 14 May
React Norway	Larvik, NO	16 Jun	closes 15 May
Front Conference	Zurich, CH	31 Aug–1 Sep	closes 31 May
Inclusive Design 24	virtual	21 Sep	closes 4 Jun

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 280 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 30 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

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
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F36	4509
F37	3871
F38 (pre-release)	1142
Rawhide	6982

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

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

Blockers

Bug	Component	Status	Blocker status
2170878	crypto-policies	ASSIGNED	Accepted (Final)
2171350	kernel	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2176782	kernel	POST	Accepted (Final)
2172956	openssh	POST	Accepted (Final)
2174563	sddm	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2113005	shim	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2177153	abrt	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2180768	accountservice	MODIFIED	Proposed (Final)
2180277	gnome-shell	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2181367	gnome-software	MODIFIED	Proposed (Final)
2179591	kwin	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

• 504 packages fail to build from source
• 53 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
FontAwesome6	Self-Contained	Approved
SPDX License Phase 2	System-Wide	FESCo #2972
EC2 AMIs default to the gp3 EBS volume type	Self-Contained	Announced
Register EC2 Cloud Images with IMDSv2-only AMI flag	Self-Contained	Announced
Changes of defaults in createrepo_c-1.0.0	System-Wide	Announced
Register EC2 Cloud Images with uefi-preferred AMI flag	Self-Contained	Announced

Contributing

Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.