Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. 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
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

Announcements

• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• The GNOME Community Engagement Challenge is accepting applications through 1 July.
• Communishift will be down until further notice.
• Lenovo will soon be shipping laptops with Fedora Workstation pre-installed.
• The Fedora Council is considering a proposal on the process of withdrawing sponsorship from events.
• The Fedora 32 election results are now available.
• FESCo meetings have moved to 1400 UTC Wednesdays.

Help wanted

• 538 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer

Prioritized Bugs

• See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Bug ID	Status	Component
1840663	NEW	mediawriter

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• CPE Product Owner office hours 1300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on riot.im

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

• 2020-06-24: Proposal deadline for Changes requiring infrastructure changes
• 2020-06-30: Proposal deadline for Changes requiring mass rebuild
• 2020-06-30: Proposal deadline for System-Wide Changes
• 2020-07-21: Proposal deadline for Self-Contained Changes
• 2020-07-22: Mass rebuild begins
• 2020-07-22: Spins keepalive deadline

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
Node.js 14.x by default	System-Wide	FESCo #2391
Aarch64 Pointer Authentication & Branch Target Enablement	System-Wide	Accepted
No more automagic Python bytecompilation phase 3	Self-Contained	Accepted
Drop mod_php	Self-Contained	Accepted
swap on zram	System-Wide	FESCo #2408
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
CMake to do out-of-source builds	System-Wide	Announced
Fedora-Retired-Packages	Announced
Distribute .repo files for modular repositories from a separate package	Self-Contained	Announced
Default animated background for Fedora Workstation	Self-Contained	Announced
LXQt 0.15.0	Self-Contained	Announced
NSS dbm support removal	Self-Contained	Announced
LLVM 11	System-Wide	Announced
Use %make_build and %make_install macros	System-Wide	Announced
Zanata Removal	System-Wide	Announced

Fedora 34

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
NSS CK_GCM_PARAMS change	System-Wide	FESCo #2400

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

• Datacenter move
  • Communishift will remain offline until further notice
  • A full list of services impacted by the infrastructure moves is available
• AAA replacement
  • See the GitHub kanban board for more information