Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. I’ll be on PTO next week, so there will be no program update on 27 March.
Announcements
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Freenode account, nickname, and channel cleanup will begin 12 April.
- It’s the time of year when we move the clocks around. See my email to the devel list for details.
- Taskotron will be retired on 30 April.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Oct 2020 | closes 10 Apr |
| All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, US | 18–20 Oct 2020 | closes 17 Apr |
Help wanted
- Add your team to the release readiness page
- Take a moment to test dnf upgrades to Fedora 32
- It’s time to contribute to the Fedora 32 Release Notes
- Kernel Test Week will run 2020-04-13 to 2020-04-17
- Vote for the IoT edition’s name through 25 March
Prioritized Bugs
| Bug ID | Status | Component |
|---|---|---|
| 1811800 | ON_QA | postgresql |
| 1800528 | NEW | maven |
| 1780827 | NEW | dnf |
| 1715900 | NEW | samba |
| 1804305 | ON_QA | moby-engine |
| 1805265 | NEW | gnome-shell |
Upcoming meetings
- Fedora 32 blocker review — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
Releases
Fedora 32
Schedule
- 2020-04-07 Final Freeze begins
- 2020-04-21 Preferred Final target date
Fedora 33
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MinGW environment and toolchain update | System-Wide | Announced |
| GNU Make version 4.3 | System-Wide | Announced |
| RPM 4.16 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Sqlite RpmDB | System-Wide | Announced |
| Strong crypto settings: phase 2 | 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Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.
CPE update
- The datacenter move timelines are now on the Fedora 32 infrastructure schedule
- AAA replacement: see the GitHub kanban board for tasks
- Communishift will be out for 2-3 weeks beginning 12 April for the datacenter move.
See the CPE weekly for more information.
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