Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! The mass rebuild is under way.
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Announcements
- Long-term fail-to-build-from-source packages will be retired next week.
- The mass rebuild is underway.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write the Docs | virtual | 25-27 Apr | closes 1 Feb |
| FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit | Singapore | 13-21 Mar | closes 12 Feh |
| LISA | virtual | 1-3 June | closes 23 Feb |
Help wanted
- 240 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Contribute to the Fedora Zine by 1 February
- The Copr team wants your feedback on potential 2021 features
- Project proposals and mentor volunteers for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 are due by 28 February
- Submit your demo video ideas for the virtual FOSDEM booth
Prioritized Bugs
- See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Upcoming meetings
- FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1800 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix
Releases
Fedora 34
Schedule
Upcoming key schedule milestones:
- 2021-01-20–2021-02-09 — Mass rebuild
- 2021-02-09 — Fedora 34 branches from Rawhide
- 2021-02-09 — Change completion deadline (testable)
- 2021-02-23 — Change completion deadline (100% code complete)
- 2021-02-23 — Beta freeze begins
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping | System-Wide | FESCo #2441 |
| CompilerPolicy Change | System-Wide | FESCo #2409 |
| Make Fedora CoreOS a Fedora Edition | System-Wide | FESCo #2516 |
| Localization measurement and tooling | Self-Contained | Accepted |
| LXQt 0.16.0 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2546 |
| Signed RPM Contents | System-Wide | Rejected |
| Comp Neuro Container Image | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Scale ZRAM to Full Memory Size | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Enable HarfBuzz in FreeType | Self-Contained | Approved |
| PostgreSQL 13 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2557 |
| Remove Guile Support From Toolchain | Self-Contained | FESco #2558 |
| BIND 9.16 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2559 |
| Make selinux-policy up-to-date with the latest kernel | Self-Contained | FESCo #2561 |
| Remove Python2 RPM Macros | Self-Contained | FESCo #2567 |
| uEFI for ARMv7 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2563 |
| fbrnch | Self-Contained | FESCo #2564 |
| SOF as default audio driver for Intel LPE hardware | Self-Contained | FESCo #2565 |
| Deprecate python-mock | Self-Contained | Announced |
| GNOME 40 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2568 |
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.
Fedora 35
Changes
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PHP 8.0 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Retire python3.5 | Self-Contained | FESCo #2562 |
| Add Fedora Kinoite as a variant | 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.
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.
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