Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. The Nest With Fedora Call for Participation is now open.
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
- Fedora documentation is now multilinugal
- The Fedora Council meeting time has moved to Thursday.
- A draft Modularity Improvements Objective has been shared for comment
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nest With Fedora | The Internet | 7-9 Aug 2020 | open |
| openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference | The Internet | 15-17 October 2020 | closes 4 August |
| SeaGL | The Internet | 13–14 November 2020 | closes 15 August |
Help wanted
- 140 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
- 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 element.io
Releases
Fedora 33
Schedule
- 2020-07-27: Mass rebuild begins (late)
- 2020-07-22: Spins keepalive deadline
The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1856496 | anaconda | NEW | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1856514 | anaconda | NEW | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1855174 | btrfs-progs | VERIFIED | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1857043 | tomcat | MODIFIED | Accepted(Beta) |
| 1830343 | gnome-shell | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
| 1829079 | gdm | MODIFIED | Accepted(Final) |
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CompilerPolicy Change | System-Wide | FESCo #2409 |
| NSS dbm support removal | Self-Contained | FESCo #2415 |
| Better Thermal Management for the Workstation | Self-Contained | FESCo #2437 |
| Patches in Forge macros – Auto macros – Detached rpm changelogs | System-Wide | FESCo #2440 |
| FlexiBLAS as BLAS/LAPACK manager | System-Wide | Approved |
| Support PARSEC | Self-Contained | Approved |
| PostgreSQL 13 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2448 |
| Golang 1.15 | System-Wide | Approved |
| Reserve resources for active users (Workstation) | Self-Contained | Announced |
| X.org Utility Deaggregation | Self-Contained | Announced |
| .NET Core on Aarch64 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2453 |
| Stratis 2.1.0 | Self-Contained | Announced |
| DXVK as default wined3d backend on VK capable hardware | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Ruby on Rails 6.0 | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Policy for Modules in Fedora and Fedora ELN | Self-Contained | FESCo #2452 |
| glibc32 Build Adjustments | Self-Contained | Deferred |
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
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