Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. Please update the Release Readiness page with your team’s status.

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• Announcements
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

Announcements

• Fedora 30 buildroots in COPR are now disabled.

Help wanted

• 166 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

Upcoming test days

• 8 September — i18n test day

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

• 2020-08-25 Change complete (100% code complete) deadline
• 2020-08-25 Beta freeze begins

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1857043	tomcat	MODIFIED	Accepted(Beta)
1860616	libreport	POST	Accepted(Beta)
1866570	resteasy	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1861700	sddm	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1862686	selinux-policy	POST	Accepted(Beta)
1827915	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1849430	distribution	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
1849431	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1869892	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1863041	systemd	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1829079	gdm	MODIFIED	Accepted(Final)

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	7
MODIFIED	19
ON_QA	23
CLOSED	8

Proposal	Type	Status
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
PostgreSQL 13	Self-Contained	Rejected
Restart services at end of rpm transaction	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
OpenLDAP without Non-threaded Libraries	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
Patches in Forge macros – Auto macros – Detached rpm changelogs	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
Use update-alternatives for /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module	Self-Contained	Deferred to F34

Fedora 34

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping	System-Wide	FESCo #2441
Policy for Modules in Fedora and Fedora ELN	Self-Contained	FESCo #2452

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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
• See the CPE weekly for more information