Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. EPEL 6 has reached end-of-life. Fedora 34 Change proposal which require infrastructure changes are due on Wednesday, 16 December. Congratulations to the newly-elected members of Council, FESCo, and Mindshare.
Announcements
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSDEM CentOS Dojo | virtual | 4-5 Feb 2021 | closes 20 Dec |
| FOSDEM Distro Dev Room | virtual | 6 Feb 2021 | closes 20 Dec |
Help wanted
- 197 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.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1883609 | shim | ASSIGNED |
| 1900227 | gnome-control-center | NEW |
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Community Outreach Revamp AMA — 1500 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare on Matrix
- Fedora Council Video Meeting: Fedora Mexico — 1600 UTC Thursday on Bluejeans
- Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix
Releases
Fedora 34
Schedule
Upcoming key schedule milestones:
- 2020-12-16 — Change proposal deadline: Changes requiring infrastructure changes
- 2020-12-29 — Change proposal deadline: System-Wide Changes, Changes requiring mass rebuild
- 2021-01-19 — Change proposal deadline: Self-Contained Changes
- 2021-01-20 — Spins keepalive deadline
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping | System-Wide | FESCo #2441 |
| CompilerPolicy Change | System-Wide | FESCo #2409 |
| MariaDB 10.5 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Remove and deprecate nscd in favour of sssd and systemd-resolved | Self-Contained | FESCo #2501 |
| GNU Toolchain update (gcc 11, glibc 2.33) | System-Wide | FESCo #2507 |
| Route all Audio to PipeWire | System-Wide | FESCo #2508 |
| kasumi-unicode | Self-Contained | FESCo #2509 |
| Rename libusb packages and deprecated old API | Self-Contained | FESCo #2510 |
| ibus-anthy for default Japanese IME | System-Wide | Announced |
| Xwayland as a standalone package | System-Wide | Announced |
| Make Fedora CoreOS a Fedora Edition | System-Wide | Announced |
| ntp replacement | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Ruby 3.0 | System-Wide | Announced |
| GitRepos-master-to-main | Self-Contained | 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Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.
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