Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. Fedora 33 Beta will be released on Tuesday. Final freeze begins Tuesday 6 October. Please update the Release Readiness page with your team’s status.

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

Announcements

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
DevConf.CZ	Virtual	18-20 Feb 2021	Closes 1 Nov

Help wanted

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

Prioritized Bugs

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

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
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on element.io

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

• 2020-09-29 — Beta Release
• 2020-10-06 — Final freeze begins
• 2020-10-20 — Final release preferred target date
• 2020-10-27 — Final release target date #1

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1881745	abrt	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
1881472	blivet-gui	POST	Accepted(Final)
1816547	firefox	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
1882319	libreport	NEW	Accepted(Final)
1861700	sddm	ON_QA	Accepted(Final)
1881234	blivet-gui	POST	Proposed(Final)
1868141	gnome-control-center	MODIFIED	Proposed(Final)
1880833	mesa	NEW	Proposed(Final)
1880752	sushi	ON_QA	Proposed(Final)

Changes

Bugzilla statuses

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	4
MODIFIED	4
ON_QA	37
CLOSED	11

Fedora 34

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping	System-Wide	FESCo #2441
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
Python Upstream Architecture Names	Self-Contained	Approved
Remove support for SELinux runtime disable	System-Wide	Approved
Wayland by Default for KDE Plasma Desktop	System-Wide	Approved
Rust Crate Packages For Release Branches	System-Wide	FESCo #2472
Move deprecated bluetooth utilities to subpackage	Self-Contained	Announced
Debug Info Standardization (from DWZ to -fdebug-types-section)	System-Wide	Announced

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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 environment is about 70% done
• AAA replacement
  • Testing Ipsilon in Staging and adding OpenID Connect capability
  • See the GitHub kanban board for more information
• See the CPE weekly for more information