Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week.
I hold weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1, but if you’ll be at FOSDEM or Copyleft Conf, you can catch me in person. The mass rebuild is underway. Here’s what to do if your build fails.
Announcements
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Long term FTBFS packages will be retired next week.
- The Fedora 32 mass rebuild is underway.
- Bodhi can now gate multi-build updates.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source Summit NA | Austin, TX, US | 22–24 Jun 2020 | closes 16 Feb |
Help wanted
- The Python Maintenance team wants your feedback on a minimization proposal
- Join the thread on the devel mailing list discussing ideas for security policy adjustments
- The CPE team wants your feedback on an open decision framework for evaluating our git forge options.
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM office hours: 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Council: 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
Releases
Fedora 32
Schedule
- 2020-02-11: Mass rebuild ends
- 2020-02-11: Branch day
- 2020-02-11: Code Complete (testable) deadline
- 2020-02-25: 100% Code complete deadline
- 2020-02-25: Beta freeze begins
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Enable EarlyOOM | System-Wide | Ready for FESCo |
| Provide OpenType Bitmap Fonts | Self-Contained | Ready for FESCo |
| Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update | self-Contained | Ready for FESCo |
| Reduce installation media size by improving the compression ratio of SquashFS filesystem | System-Wide | Ready for FESCo |
| Deprecate python-nose | Self-Contained | Ready for FESCo |
| Update Haskell packages to Stackage LTS 14 | Self-Contained | Ready for FESCo |
| Python3-rdiff-backup | Self-Contained | Ready for FESCo |
| PostgreSQL 12 | Self-Contained | Ready for FESCo |
| LTO by default for packages | System-Wide | Deferred to F33 |
Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.
Fedora 33
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Retire python26 | Self-Contained | Accepted |
| Retire python34 | Self-Contained | Accepted |
Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.
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