Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week. The Beta freeze is underway and the Go/No-Go meeting is Thursday!
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
- Older koji builds are being moved to archive storage.
- The Red Hat Summit CfP is open through 22 October.
- The Community Platform Engineering (CPE) team is hiring a senior software engineer to work on Fedora and CentOS infrastructure.
- The QA team has adopted a new policy on last-minute blocker bugs.
- The COPR retention policy is now seven days instead of 14.
- The Infinote (Gobby) service is now retired. Archives are available on the web.
Help wanted
- The L10N team is looking for help with the migration to Weblate
- The Workstation WG is forming a subgroup to investigate better protection of user data
- What projects should we highlight for Hacktoberfest? Let me know!
Upcoming meetings & test days
- Blocker review — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- i18n Test Day — Tuesday
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora 31 Beta Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora 31 Release Readiness meeting — 1900 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Friday with Infra — Friday
Fedora 31
Schedule
- 17 September — Beta release preferred target
- 8 October — Final freeze begins
- 22 October — Final release preferred target
Changes
- Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module — deferred to Fedora 32
- Bundler 2.0 — deferred to Fedora 32
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| CLOSED | 8 |
| ON_QA | 30 |
| MODIFIED | 1 |
| ASSIGNED | 3 |
Blocker bugs
| Bug ID | Blocker status | Component | Bug status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1734179 | Accepted (beta) | dracut-modules-olpc | NEW |
| 1744266 | Accepted (beta) | desktop-backgrounds | ASSIGNED |
| 1745554 | Accepted (beta) | gdm | NEW |
| 1748003 | Accepted (beta) | webkit2gtk3 | VERIFIED |
| 1749107 | Proposed (beta) | firefox | MODIFIED |
| 1749086 | Proposed (beta) | kde | NEW |
| 1743585 | Proposed (beta) | NetworkManager | ASSIGNED |
| 1734184 | Proposed (beta) | python-jmespath | ON_QA |
| 1728240 | Proposed (beta) | sddm | NEW |
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