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Fedora program update: 2020-43

October 24, 2020 / Ben Cotton / 0 Comments

Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. Fedora 33 will be released on Tuesday!

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Announcements
Calls for Participation
Help wanted
Upcoming meetings
Releases

Announcements

The Mobility SIG returns!

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
DevConf.CZ	Virtual	18-20 Feb 2021	Closes 1 Nov

Help wanted

201 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

Prioritized Bugs

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

Upcoming meetings

FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
Council meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on element.io

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

2020-10-27 — Final release target date #1

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Changes

Bugzilla statuses

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	4
MODIFIED	4
ON_QA	37
CLOSED	11

Fedora 34

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping	System-Wide	FESCo #2441
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
Move deprecated bluetooth utilities to subpackage	Self-Contained	Approved
Debug Info Standardization (from DWZ to -fdebug-types-section)	System-Wide	Rejected
[Compress Kernel Firmware])(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompressKernelFirmware)	Self-Contained	Approved
DNS Over TLS	System-Wide	Approved
Reduce installation media size by eliminating the intermediate EXT4 filesystem in the SquashFS	Self-Contained	Approved

Fedora 35

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
Python 3.10	System-Wide	Announced

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.

Photo by Ondrej Dráb, CC BY

The Python Maintenance team is hiring

The Python Maintenance team at Red Hat is looking for a software engineer to join us and help us maintain Python in Fedora and RHEL.

Hey, Pythonistas. We’re looking for a software engineer to join us in the Python Maintenance team at Red Hat – our remote-friendly Brno-based team with members throughout the Czech Republic (including Prague and Ostrava) as well as abroad (France, partially Greece, US planned).

Contribute at the Fedora 33 IoT Edition Test Day

September 29, 2020 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. On Wednesday, September 30, we’ll test Fedora IoT.

Fedora 33 Upgrade Test Day 2020-09-21

September 19, 2020 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Moday 2020-09-21, is the Fedora 33 Upgrade Test Day! As part of the preparation for Fedora 33, we need your help to test if everything runs smoothly!

Why Upgrade Test Day?

We’re approaching the Beta Release date for Fedora 33. Most users will be upgrading to Fedora 33 and this test day will help us understand if everything is working perfectly. This test day will cover both a GNOME graphical upgrade and an upgrade done using DNF .

We need your help!

All the instructions are on the wiki page, so please read through and come help us test! As always, the event will be in #fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC.

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Ambassadors Revamp Volunteer Kick-Off

September 8, 2020 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Fedora Mindshare has been actively trying to help Taskforce leads put together volunteers who will be helping revamp the Fedora Ambassador
Program. As a part of this effort, the FCIAC and Taskforce lead put out a survey to folks who expressed interest.

Contributor discount for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops with Fedora Workstation!

August 28, 2020 / Matthew Miller / 3 Comments

It’s been a little longer than we hoped, but Lenovo is now shipping the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 with Fedora Workstation preinstalled, purchasable via their website. (Currently US and Canada only, but will be world-wide. Also only this model for now, with the other models to follow.)

We’ll have some another announcements, but I wanted to share something important for Fedora contributors. There is a special Linux community portal, and if you purchase through that portal, you’ll get a (pretty significant!) discount. You just need to log in with your accountname@fedoraproject.org address (something you should have if you qualify for “CLA+1“).

This is live now: simply go to https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/Linux in the US or www.lenovo.com/ca/en/linuxca in Canada, and create an account using your Fedora email alias. Thanks to Lenovo for offering this to all Fedora contributors as a way of giving back.

Note that you must use this portal to get the extra discount. Simply using an @fedoraproject.org email address isn’t enough.

— Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader

Fedora 33 Gnome 3.37 Test Day 2020-08-19

August 19, 2020 / sumantrom / 1 Comment

Wednesday, 2020-08-19 is the Fedora 33 Gnome Test Day! As part of changes Gnome 3.37 in Fedora 33, we need your help to test if everything runs smoothly!

Ask Fedora Retrospective – 2019

May 14, 2020 / sash713 / 2 Comments

About a year ago, we officially moved the Ask Fedora user support web site to a new platform. The work started around February 2019. We archived the old Askbot instance and we moved to Discourse. This post looks back on the first year with the new site.

Welcome GSoC 2020 Interns

May 11, 2020 / Vipul Siddharth / Comments Off

Fedora has been participating in Google Summer Of Code for a long time and we have had good experience with this. Our process is to call for mentors on mailing lists and community blogs after we apply for the the program. But this doesn’t mean you have to wait for the call for mentors, you can anytime propose a project and we work with you to polish it and try to find the best place for it (be it outreacy or GSoC). We gather project ideas on Mentored Project issues.
Thank you everyone for submitting a project idea in the past and we are looking forward to have more of participation from you all.

We mourn the loss of John McDonough

April 24, 2020 / Ben Cotton / 1 Comment

We learned this week of the passing of John McDonough (jjmcd). John was a long-time contributor to the Fedora Project, and we are sad to hear of his passing. John contributed heavily to the Documentation team, sharing his knowledge with a global user community. John didn’t just write documentation, he also mentored new contributors. He was a patient and caring mentor, and our community is worse for his loss.

When I first became a Fedora contributor 11 years ago, John was one of the people who welcomed me into the Docs team. His guidance helped me become a better contributor. Although he stepped back from contributing a few years ago, his impact continues.

John’s passion for open source was matched by his passion for amateur radio. His contributions to our Amateur Radio Guide helped many hams get the most out of their hobby. WB8RCR, WB8RCR, WB8RCR, SK

I created a memorial page on the wiki. I invite your contributions.

Category: Fedora Project Community (page 1 of 20)

Fedora program update: 2020-43

Announcements

CfPs

Help wanted

Prioritized Bugs

Upcoming meetings

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

Changes

Fedora 34

Changes

Fedora 35

Changes

The Python Maintenance team is hiring

Contribute at the Fedora 33 IoT Edition Test Day

Fedora 33 Upgrade Test Day 2020-09-21

Why Upgrade Test Day?

We need your help!

Share this!

Ambassadors Revamp Volunteer Kick-Off

Contributor discount for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops with Fedora Workstation!

Fedora 33 Gnome 3.37 Test Day 2020-08-19

Ask Fedora Retrospective – 2019

Welcome GSoC 2020 Interns

We mourn the loss of John McDonough

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