Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week.

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

• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Flock registration and venue are now open. See you in Budapest!
• The Flock CfP is open!
• Submissions now open for the Fedora 31 supplemental wallpapers through July 26
• FESCo is considering a change to the unresponsive maintainers policy

Help wanted

• Help with Flock tasks is appreciated. Contact bex to be added to the board.

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM office hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council (Objectives updates) — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs and issues — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting

Fedora 31 Status

Schedule

• 2019-07-02 — Changes requiring mass rebuild due
• 2019-07-02 — System-wide changes due
• 2019-07-23 — Self-contained changes due
• 2019-07-24–08-13 — Mass rebuild
• 2019-08-13 — Code complete (testable) deadline
• 2019-08-13 — Fedora 31 branch point

Changes

Announced

• The GNU C Library version 2.30
• No More i686 Kernels
• Move test.support module to python3-test subpackage
• Golang 1.13
• Python means Python3
• Gawk 5.0.1
• DNF Make Best Mode the Default
• Qt Wayland By Default On Gnome

Submitted to FESCo

• Xfce 4.14
• Custom Crypto Policies
  

Approved by FESCo

• Disable Root Password Login in SSH
• Include security modules in EFI GRUB2