Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. The Beta freeze is underway. The Beta Go/No-Go and release readiness meetings are Thursday. Please update the Release Readiness page with your team’s status.

Submit your questions for the GitLab Ask Me Anything on Thursday. 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
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

Announcements

Help wanted

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

Upcoming test days

• 31 August through 7 September — BTRFS test week
• 8 September — i18n test day

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
1840663	mediawriter	RELEASE_PENDING
1862029	gcc	MODIFIED

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• GitLab Ask Me Anything — 1330 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on element.io
• Fedora 33 Beta Go/No-Go meeting 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora 33 Beta Release Readiness meeting 1900 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

• 2020-09-15 — Beta Release (preferred target)
• 2002-09-22 — Beta Release (target date #1)

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1860616	libreport	ON_QA	Accepted(Beta)
1861700	sddm	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1849430	distribution	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
1849431	distribution	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
1869892	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1871990	pki-core	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
1873029	libreport	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1863041	NetworkManager-openconnect	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1872056	anaconda	MODIFIED	Accepted(Beta)
1874117	kernel	VERIFIED	Accepted(Beta)
1875140	gnome-initial-setup	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1828188	kernel	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1829079	gdm	MODIFIED	Accepted(Final)

Changes

Bugzilla statuses

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	5
MODIFIED	5
ON_QA	36
CLOSED	10

Proposal	Type	Status
Introduce module Obsoletes and EOL	System-Wide	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	Approved
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
Python Upstream Architecture Names	Self-Contained	FESCo #2469
Reduce installation media size by improving the compression ratio of SquashFS filesystem	Self-Contained	FESCo #2470

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.
  • Staging is coming back online
• AAA replacement
  • See the GitHub kanban board for more information
• See the CPE weekly for more information