Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. The Nest With Fedora Call for Participation is now open.

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• Announcements
• Calls for Participation
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

Announcements

• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Fedora documentation is now multilinugal
• The Fedora Council meeting time has moved to Thursday.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Nest With Fedora	The Internet	7-9 Aug 2020	open
SeaGL	The Internet	13–14 November 2020	closes 15 August

Help wanted

• 142 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• The Fedora Ambassadors Revamp needs volunteers for the organizing task force.

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Status	Component
1840663	RELEASE_PENDING	mediawriter

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• CPE Product Owner office hours 1300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on element.io

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

• 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
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
CMake to do out-of-source builds	System-Wide	Approved
Distribute .repo files for modular repositories from a separate package	Self-Contained	Approved
NSS dbm support removal	Self-Contained	FESCo #2415
Use %make_build and %make_install macros	System-Wide	Approved
Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants	System-Wide	Approved
NetworkManager keyfile instead of ifcfg-rh	System-Wide	Approved
Cleanup GNOME Hidden Boot Menu Integration	System-Wide	Approved
Disable dmraid.service on first run if no dmraid sets are found	System-Wide	Approved
Remove device-mapper-multipath from the Fedora workstation livecd	System-Wide	Approved
OpenLDAP without Non-threaded Libraries	System-Wide	Approved
Better Thermal Management for the Workstation	Self-Contained	FESCo #2437
Make the unversioned %{__python} macro error by default	Self-Contained	Approved
Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE	Self-Contained	Approved
IBus 1.5.23	Self-Contained	Approved
Patches in Forge macros – Auto macros – Detached rpm changelogs	System-Wide	FESCo #2440
Introduce Storage Instantiation Daemon	Self-Contained	Approved
FlexiBLAS as BLAS/LAPACK manager	System-Wide	FESCo #2443
Support PARSEC	Self-Contained	FESCo #2447
PostgreSQL 13	Self-Contained	FESCo #2448
Policy for Modules in Fedora and Fedora ELN	Self-Contained	Announced
Golang 1.15	System-Wide	FESCo #2450
Reserve resources for active users (Workstation)	Self-Contained	Announced
X.org Utility Deaggregation	Self-Contained	Announced
.NET Core on Aarch64	Self-Contained	Announced

Fedora 34

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
NSS CK_GCM_PARAMS change	System-Wide	FESCo #2400
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping	System-Wide	FESCo #2441

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
  • The infrastructure moves is nearly complete. A list of known issues is available.
• AAA replacement
  • See the GitHub kanban board for more information