Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week. The mass rebuild is underway.

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
• We are looking for a new FCAIC. Could this be you?
• The Community Platform Engineering team is hiring a Feature Driver
• Rawhide gating is enabled for single-package builds.
• The first preview release of Fedora CoreOS is available

Upcoming meetings

• Blocker review — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• FPgM office hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1

Fedora 31

Schedule

• 2019-07-24–08-13 — Mass rebuild
• 2019-08-13 — Code complete (testable) deadline
• 2019-08-13 — Fedora 31 branch point

Changes

Announced

• Erlang 22
• GHC 8.6 and Stackage LTS 13
• Variable Noto fonts
• Add LLD As Update Alternatives Option For LD
• DeepinDE 15.11
• Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module
• Simply reclaim disk space in Anaconda
• AArch64 Xfce Desktop image
• Enable net.ipv4.ping_group_range in the kernel

Submitted to FESCo

• Limit Scriptlet Usage of core packages (FESCo ticket #2172)
• Mono 5.20 (FESCo ticket #2182)
• Bundler 2.0 (FESCo ticket #2183)

Approved by FESCo

• Golang 1.13
• Gawk 5.0.1
• Langpacks-core for i18n functionality
• Modify Fedora 31 to use CgroupsV2 by default
• Automatic R runtime dependencies
• IBus 1.5.21
• Qt Wayland By Default On Gnome

Withdrawn by owner

• Boost 1.70 upgrade (was: accepted)
• Build non-RELRO ELF binaries with .got.plt isolation (was: accepted)

Rejected by FESCo

• DNF Make Best Mode the Default (FESCo ticket #2168)

Blocker bugs

Bug ID	Blocker status	Component	Bug status
1728419	Accepted (beta)	bes	NEW
1727343	Accepted (beta)	libdnf	ON_QA
1732620	Proposed (beta)	anaconda	MODIFIED
1731908	Proposed (beta)	gnome-shell	NEW
1731415	Proposed (beta)	initial-setup	NEW
1733388	Proposed (beta)	kernel	NEW
1715699	Proposed (beta)	systemd	POST

Fedora 32

Changes

Announced

• x86-64 micro-architecture update