Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. The Final freeze is underway and the Go/No-Go meeting is Thursday!
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
- 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.
- Fedora contributor Niharika Shrivastava (orionstar25) is a finalist for the 2020 Red Hat Women in Open Source Academic Award.
- The GNOME Community Engagement Challenge is accepting applications through 1 July.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| DevConf.US | Framingham, MA, US | 23–25 Sep 2020 | closes 27 Apr |
| Community Leadership Summit | Raleigh, NC, US | 17 Oct 2020 | closes 10 Apr |
| All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, US | 18–20 Oct 2020 | closes 17 Apr |
Help wanted
- 420 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- 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
- IoT Test Day is 2020-04-15
- The Mobility SIG is looking for volunteers to help with bringing Fedora to mobile phones
- The Modularity team wants your feedback on Fedora Modularity
Prioritized Bugs
Upcoming meetings
- Fedora 32 blocker review — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora 32 Final Go/No-Go meeting 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora 32 Final Release Readiness meeting 1900 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
Releases
Fedora 32
Schedule
- 2020-04-09 Final Freeze begins
- 2020-04-21 Preferred Final target date
Blockers
| Bug ID | Bug Status | Component | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1768206 | NEW | dnf | Accepted(Final) |
| 1821548 | NEW | 389-ds-base | Proposed(Final) |
| 1821702 | NEW | gtk3 | Proposed(Final) |
| 1814810 | NEW | kernel | Proposed(Final) |
| 1817708 | NEW | plasma-desktop | Proposed(Final) |
| 1815463 | NEW | plasma-user-manager | Proposed(Final) |
Fedora 33
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MinGW environment and toolchain update | System-Wide | Approved |
| GNU Make version 4.3 | System-Wide | Approved |
| Strong crypto settings: phase 2 | System-Wide | Approved |
| java-11-openjdk as system JDK in F33 | System-Wide | FESCo #2370 |
| ELN Buildroot and Compose | System-Wide | FESCo #2365 |
| Mark libdb as deprecated | System-Wide | Announced |
| Introduce module Obsoletes and EOL | System-Wide | FESCo #2364 |
| Removal of the glibc-headers package | System-Wide | Announced |
| Network Time Security | Self-Contained | Announced |
| OpenSSL3.0 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Perl 5.32 | 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.
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