Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. The Beta Freeze is underway.
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.
Announcements
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- The Community Platform Engineering (CPE) team is hiring for a DevOps/sysadmin role in Waterford, IE or EMEA/APAC/LATAM remote.
- Freenode account, nickname, and channel cleanup will begin 12 April.
- The Fedora Council wants your feedback on an updated draft vision statement.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook CentOS Dojo | Menlo Park, CA, US | 24 Apr 2020 | closes 16 Mar |
| DevConf.US | Framingham, MA, US | 23–25 Sep 2020 | closes 27 Apr |
| GUADEC | Zacatecas, MX | 22–28 Jul 2020 | closes 31 March |
| Community Leadership Summit | Raleigh, NC, US | closes 10 Apr | |
| All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, US | 18–20 Oct 2020 | closes 20 Mar |
Help wanted
- 1304 package review requests are open
- Add your team to the Release Readiness page
Prioritized Bugs
Upcoming meetings
- Fedora 32 blocker review — 1700 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
Releases
Fedora 32
Schedule
- 2020-03-17 Preferred Beta target date
- 2020-04-07 Final Freeze begins
- 2020-04-21 Preferred Final target date
Changes
| Tracker status | Count |
|---|---|
| ASSIGNED | 5 |
| MODIFIED | 5 |
| ON_QA | 17 |
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Additional buildroot to test x86-64 micro-architecture update | self-Contained | Approved |
| Use update-alternatives for /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++ | System-Wide | Deferred to F33 |
| Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module | Self-Contained | 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Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.
Blockers
| Bug ID | Bug Status | Component | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1767351 | ON_QA | dnf-plugins-extras | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1804564 | NEW | PackageKit | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1798792 | ASSIGNED | python-blivet | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1806233 | VERIFIED | anaconda | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1801820 | ASSIGNED | gnome-shell | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1804080 | NEW | python-blivet | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1807342 | NEW | distribution | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1807769 | NEW | virt-manager | Proposed(Beta) |
| 1801087 | NEW | colord | Accepted(Final) |
| 1774746 | NEW | isci-initiator-utils | Accepted(Final) |
| 1802169 | MODIFIED | tracker | Accepted(Final) |
| 1806520 | POST | anaconda | Proposed(Final) |
Fedora 33
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|
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.
CPE update
- The datacenter move timelines are now on the Fedora 32 infrastructure schedule
- AAA replacement: see the GitHub kanban board for tasks
- FMN is the main blocking point for the retirement of fedmsg, it is also running on an eol Fedora (28) and the team are working on replacing it. See the devel list thread
See the CPE weekly for more information.
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