It might be monthly at this stage, but the intent is there for this to be a weekly occurrence. Soon, soon…

Read on to get some information about stuff’n’things around the Fedora project!

Events

Flock to Fedora

Flock to Fedora is right around the corner! It takes place in Rochester, NY, USA from Wednesday August 7th – Saturday August 1 0th. If you are attending, please keep an eye on the Flock Announcements matrix channel to keep up to date on any news and changes ahead of the conference. Our schedule has also been updated to make sure you take a look and plan your trip or viewing accordingly πŸ™‚ Sessions will be available to view live on Wednesday & Thursday, make sure you join the matrix channel to watch via youtube. Live Q&A will unfortunately not be possible from the matrix room and workshops happening on Friday & Saturday will not be streamed

Fedora Linux 41

We are now past all change proposal submission dates, so here are some important dates for changes to be completed by, along with other key dates and milestones. The full schedule can be found on the release schedule.

  • August 13th – Changes need to be Testable
  • August 13th – Mass branching
  • August 27th – Changes need to be Complete
  • August 27th – Beta Freeze starts
  • September 17th – Beta Release (Early Target)
  • October 15th – Final Freeze
  • October 22nd – Final Release (Early Target)
  • November 19th – F39 EOL

Fedora Linux 42 Development

Change proposals for F42 are starting to come through, so here’s a reminder of deadlines for those of you who have a change you would like to propose.

  • December 18th – Changes requiring infrastructure changes
  • December 24th – Changes requiring mass rebuild
  • December 24th – System Wide changes
  • January 14th – Self Contained changes

Hot Topics

AI/ML Survey

The Fedora AI/ML survey is still open until July 31st to complete and share your thoughts with the Fedora council. This survey is intended to try to understand how the Fedora community views AI/ML and feel about its use in Fedora in order for the council to try to create informed guidelines for the project when it comes to using AI/ML.

Git Forge Replacement

The git forge replacement investigation is underway. Members of the Community Platform Engineering team are driving this work and its primary focus is to evaluate the use of either GitLab or Forgejo as a replacement for dist-git. Project hosting, etc is an important piece of this puzzle, but we are intentionally breaking the investigation down to dist-git first as this is at the core of our build and release ability for Fedora. Right now, the team are reviewing user stories that have been submitted for the dist-git use case and are working on deploying an instance of both GitLab and Forgejo in the CommuniShift service for experimentation. This is expected to be up and running after Flock to Fedora.

If you would like to get involved in this investigation, please join the matrix room and you can find issues that the team are working on in the ARC repository. the team also gave a short talk at the F40 release party if you would like to get more context on their work, and do bookmark their session at the upcoming Flock event to get the most up to date state of play of the investigation and where you could be of must help to the work!

Help Wanted

Test Days

Podman 5.2 test days are happening now right until 31st July, so if you have some time to spare, contributing to this test matrix would be greatly appreciated. Keep an eye on the events calendar for other upcoming test days too for Fedora Linux 41.

Packages

Please take a look at the latest Orphaned Packages list and adopt one (or two) if you can.

Package reviews are also needed and greatly appreciated.