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
• The Red Hat Summit CfP is open through 22 October.
• dist-git changes are coming that will enable self-service orphaned package adoption and simplify anitya configuration changes.
• Yahoo is rejecting @fedoraproject.org email].
• I added a Telegram field to the Infobox user template on the wiki. You can now set your Telegram user ID in your wiki page with an automatic link.
• The Open TestCon CfP is open through 31 October.
• The DevConf.CZ CfP is open through 1 November.
• FESCo has approved an updated non-responsive maintainer policy (diff)
• Read about CentOS Stream and Fedora.

Help wanted

• Fedocal needs a new maintainer. Fedocal will be retired on 15 October if no one adopts it.
• The QA team wants to know when to run live onboarding sessions. Let them know what works best for you.
• The CPE team wants feedback on a minimum viable Fedora infrastructure during next year’s datacenter move.
• We are looking for mentors for Google Code-In 2019.

Upcoming meetings & test days

• 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

• 8 October — Final freeze begins
• 22 October — Final release preferred target

Changes

• Set skip_if_unavailable default to false — reverted by FESCo

Blocker bugs

Bug ID	Blocker status	Component	Bug status
1749433	Accepted (final)	mutter	NEW
1747408	Accepted (final)	distribution	NEW
1752249	Accepted (final)	dnf	VERIFIED
1750394	Accepted (final)	gnome-control-center	ASSIGNED
1750805	Accepted (final)	gnome-control-center	NEW
1754630	Accepted (final)	gnome-shell	NEW
1754373	Accepted (final)	mutter	NEW
1728240	Accepted (final)	sddm	NEW
1755813	Accepted (final)	blivet-gui	ASSIGNED
1755898	Proposed (final)	gnome-shell	NEW
1757948	Proposed (final)	fwupd	ASSIGNED
1703700	Proposed (final)	grub2	NEW
1756567	Proposed (final)	vte291	MODIFIED

Fedora 32

Changes

Announced

• binutils 2.33

Submitted to FESCo

• Better Thermal Management for the Workstation (FESCo ticket #2241)

Approved by FESCo

• Switch mingw32 toolchain to dwarf-2 exceptions
• Jekyll 4
• MariaDB 10.4
• PHP 7.4
• Firewalld Default to nftables
• Comp Neuro Lab
• Django 3
• mpfr-4.0.2

CPE update

Community Application Handover & Retirement Updates

• Nuancier: New maintainer has been found & completed first merge this week
• Fedocal: App will be retired on 15th October if no maintainer volunteers
• Packagedb-cli: being retired this week
• Badges: Discussion happening here for maintainers
• Asknot-ng: Moved to CommuniShift & whatcanidoforfedora is being redirected to this application.
• Pastebin: The new maintainer and CPE team are currently working on moving this application to CentOS.

In addition, the team is creating comprehensive documentation for Communishift.

Other Project updates

• Rawhide Gating: Still on track for early November release.
• repoSpanner: Test suite is more stable with a number of issues resolved last week. Work still ongoing to make it more reliable. Performance testing is starting this week.
• CentOS: 8.0.1905 docs now published on docs.centos.org.
• CentOS CI SSL Authentication issue with Fedora Messaging plugin now solved.