Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week.

I have weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. (Just not this week because I will be traveling)

Announcements

• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• We are looking for a new FCAIC. Could this be you?
• Rawhide gating is enabled for single-package builds.
• The first preview release of Fedora CoreOS is available
• The Infinote (Gobby) service is scheduled for retirement on 30 August. Make backups of any content you wish to keep before then.
• Older koji builds are being moved to archive storage.
• The list of Fedora 31 Release-Blocking Deliverables is now available.
• Gradle will go away
• EPEL-8.0 is now available
• Fedora 32 Python 3.8 rebuilds have started in a side tag

Help wanted

• Join the new Minimization Team
• The L10N team is looking for help with the migration to Weblate

Upcoming meetings

• Blocker review — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• Fedora Council — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Friday with Infra — Friday

Fedora 31

Schedule

• 27 August — 100% Code Complete deadline
• 27 August — Bodhi activation point
• 27 August — Beta Freeze begins
• 17 September — Beta release preferred target

Changes

Submitted to FESCo

• Limit Scriptlet Usage of core packages (FESCo ticket #2172)
• Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module (FESCo ticket #2201)
• Enable net.ipv4.ping_group_range in the kernel (FESCo ticket #2204)

Approved by FESCo

• Erlang 22 (FESCo ticket #2195)
• GHC 8.6 and Stackage LTS 13 (FESco ticket #2196)
• Variable Noto fonts (FESCo ticket #2197)
• Add LLD As Update Alternatives Option For LD (FESCo ticket #2199)
• DeepinDE 15.11 (FESCo ticket #2200)
• AArch64 Xfce Desktop image (FESCo ticket #2202)

Blocker bugs