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
- 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
- 445 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 | ASSIGNED | mediawriter |
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- CPE Product Owner office hours 1300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on riot.im
Releases
Fedora 33
Schedule
- 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 | Accepted |
| swap on zram | System-Wide | Accepted |
| CompilerPolicy Change | System-Wide | FESCo #2409 |
| CMake to do out-of-source builds | System-Wide | FESCo #2411 |
| Fedora-Retired-Packages | System-Wide | Withdrawn |
| Distribute .repo files for modular repositories from a separate package | Self-Contained | FESCo #2412 |
| Default animated background for Fedora Workstation | Self-Contained | FESCo #2413 |
| LXQt 0.15.0 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2414 |
| NSS dbm support removal | Self-Contained | FESCo #2415 |
| LLVM 11 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Use %make_build and %make_install macros | System-Wide | Announced |
| Zanata Removal | System-Wide | Announced |
| The GNU C Library version 2.32 | System-Wide | Announced |
| Automatic RPM dependencies on Python Extras | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Make nano the default editor | System-Wide | Announced |
| Deprecate python-pytoml | Self-Contained | Announced |
| GHC 8.8 and Haskell Stackage LTS 16 | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants | System-Wide | Announced |
Fedora 34
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| NSS CK_GCM_PARAMS change | System-Wide | FESCo #2400 |
| Binutils 2.35 | 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
- 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
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