Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week. Fedora 31 Beta is go!

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
• The Red Hat Summit CfP is open through 22 October.
• The QA team has adopted a new policy on last-minute blocker bugs.
• The COPR retention policy is now seven days instead of 14.
• dist-git changes are coming that will enable self-service orphaned package adoption and simplify anitya configuration changes.

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!
• The L10N team is starting weekly meetings.

Upcoming meetings & test days

• Badges virtual hackfest — Friday and Saturday in #fedora-badges
• Blocker review — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Friday with Infra — Friday

Fedora 31

Schedule

• 17 September — Beta release
• 8 October — Final freeze begins
• 22 October — Final release preferred target

Changes

• Improved GRUB menu — cancelled

Blocker bugs

Bug ID	Blocker status	Component	Bug status
1749433	Accepted (final)	gnome-control-center	NEW
1750394	Accepted (final)	gnome-control-center	NEW
1749086	Accepted (final)	kde	MODIFIED
1751438	Accepted (final)	LiveCD	NEW
1728240	Accepted (final)	sddm	NEW
1750805	Proposed (final)	gnome-control-center	NEW
1751673	Proposed (final)	gnome-session	NEW
1749868	Proposed (final)	gnome-software	NEW
1747408	Proposed (final)	libgit2	NEW
1750036	Proposed (final)	selinux-policy	ASSIGNED
1750345	Proposed (final)	webkit2gtk3	NEW
1751852	Proposed (final)	xfdesktop	ASSIGNED

Fedora 32

Changes

Announced

• Firewalld Default to nftables
• Jekyll 4
• MariaDB 10.4
• PHP 7.4

Submitted to FESCo

• Switch mingw32 toolchain to dwarf-2 exceptions (FESCo ticket #2225)

Withdrawn

• Track Changes in Taiga