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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.
• A draft Modularity Improvements Objective has been shared for comment
• s390x chroots are now available in Copr
• Long-term FTBFS packages will be retired next week

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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

• 157 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

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

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

• 2020-08-11 Change complete (testable) deadline
• 2020-08-11 Branch day
• 2020-08-25 Change complete (100% code complete) deadline

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1856496	anaconda	MODIFIED	Accepted(Beta)
1857043	tomcat	MODIFIED	Accepted(Beta)
1830343	gnome-shell	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1860616	libreport	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1861700	sddm	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1829079	gdm	MODIFIED	Accepted(Final)

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
NSS dbm support removal	Self-Contained	Approved
Better Thermal Management for the Workstation	Self-Contained	Approved
Patches in Forge macros – Auto macros – Detached rpm changelogs	System-Wide	FESCo #2440
PostgreSQL 13	Self-Contained	FESCo #2448
Reserve resources for active users (Workstation)	Self-Contained	FESCo #2457
X.org Utility Deaggregation	Self-Contained	FESCo #2459
.NET Core on Aarch64	Self-Contained	FESCo #2453
Stratis 2.1.0	Self-Contained	FESCo #2455
DXVK as default wined3d backend on VK capable hardware	Self-Contained	FESco #2456
Ruby on Rails 6.0	Self-Contained	FESCo #2458
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