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

I’ve set up weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

Announcements

• Backwards-incompatible changes are planned for Bodhi 4.0.
• Fedora Legal has determined the Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) is not suitable for use in Fedora. It is added to the Bad Licenses list.
• Recent updates to packaging guidelines
  

Fedora 30 Status

Fedora 30 Change Proposal deadlines are approaching

• Change proposals for Self-Contained Changes are due 2019-01-29.

Fedora 30 includes a Change that will cause ambiguous python shebangs to error.  A list of failing builds is available on Taskotron.

Fedora 30 includes a Change that will remove glibc langpacks from the buildroot. See the devel mailing list for more information and impacted packages.

Changes

Announced

• Flicker Free Boot
• Golang 1.12
• uEFI for ARMv7
• Switch cryptsetup default metadata format to LUKS2
• libcrypt.so.1 (compatibility library for POSIX): Let encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, and fcrypt return ENOSYS instead of performing any real operation

Submitted to FESCo

• krb5 crypto modernization
• GNOME 3.32
• Avoid Fedora-specific build flags in non-RPM Python extensions
• DNF Better Counting
• Reset locale if not available
• Replace Comps Language Group With Langpacks

Approved by FESCo

• Fully remove deprecated and unsafe functions from libcrypt

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

I’ve set up weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

Announcements

• Backwards-incompatible changes are planned for Bodhi 4.0.
• UTAGE: Koji system 2019-01-11 through 2019-01-14: During this time the s390 builders will not be available and all builds will be queued up until they are available and will not complete.

Upcoming meetings & test days

• Kernel 4.20 test day — Tuesday in #fedora-test-day
  
• FPgM office hours — 1400 UTC on Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council (D&I/FESCo/Mindshare report) — 1500 UTC on Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
  

Fedora 30 Status

Fedora 30 Change Proposal deadlines are approaching

• Change proposals for Self-Contained Changes are due 2019-01-29.

Fedora 30 includes a Change that will cause ambiguous python shebangs to error.  A list of failing builds is available on Taskotron.

Fedora 30 includes a Change that will remove glibc langpacks from the buildroot. See the devel mailing list for more information and impacted packages.

Changes

Announced

• Flicker Free Boot
• Golang 1.12
• uEFI for ARMv7
• Switch cryptsetup default metadata format to LUKS2
• GNOME 3.32
• DNF UUID
• Avoid Fedora-specific build flags in non-RPM Python extensions
• Reset locale if not available
• Replace Comps Language Group With Langpacks

Submitted to FESCo

• krb5 crypto modernization
• Fully remove deprecated and unsafe functions from libcrypt

Approved by FESCo

• Remove Obsolete Scriptlets
• Python-progressbar2 as default
• Migrate Python-based Nautilus extensions to Python 3
• Deprecate Sonatype OSS Parent
• Deprecate Apache Maven 2.x
• Deprecate Apache Jakarta ORO and Regexp
• Deprecate Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient
• Deprecate Apache Avalon
• Deepin DE

Deferred

• New 128-bit IEEE long double ABI for IBM 64-bit POWER LE

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

I’ve set up weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections or anything else.

Announcements

• Backwards-incompatible changes are planned for Bodhi 4.0.
• UTAGE: Koji system 2019-01-11 through 2019-01-14: During this time the s390 builders will not be available and all builds will be queued up until they are available and will not complete.

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM office hours — 1400 UTC on Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council (D&I/FESCo/Mindshare report) — 1500 UTC on Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
  

Fedora 30 Status

Fedora 30 Change Proposal deadlines are approaching.

• Change proposals requiring a mass rebuild or for System-Wide Changes are due 2019-01-08.
• Change proposals for Self-Contained Changes are due 2019-01-29.
  

Fedora 30 includes a Change that will cause ambiguous python shebangs to error.  A list of failing builds is available on Taskotron.

Fedora 30 includes a Change that will remove glibc langpacks from the buildroot. See the devel mailing list for more information and impacted packages.

Changes

Announced

• Fully remove deprecated and unsafe functions from libcrypt
• Flicker Free Boot
• Golang 1.12
• uEFI for ARMv7
• Switch cryptsetup default metadata format to LUKS2

Submitted to FESCo

• Migrate Python-based Nautilus extensions to Python 3
• Deprecate Sonatype OSS Parent
• Deprecate Apache Maven 2.x
• Deprecate Apache Jakarta ORO and Regexp
• Deprecate Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient
• Deprecate Apache Avalon
• Deepin DE
• krb5 crypto modernization

Approved by FESCo

• Remove Obsolete Scriptlets
• Python-progressbar2 as default

Deferred

• New 128-bit IEEE long double ABI for IBM 64-bit POWER LE