Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week. Fedora 31 was released on Tuesday. Fedora 29 will reach end of life on 26 November.

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
• Some Python 2 packages will be removed in mid-November.
• The Fedora Council is considering an extension to the Minimization Objective

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
DevConf.CZ	Brno, CZ	24–26 Jan 2020	closes 6 Nov
Open TestCon	Beijing, CN	30–31 Mar 2020	closes 10 Nov
CentOS Dojo	Brussels, BE	31 Jan 2020	closes 18 Nov
FOSDEM Distro Devroom	Brussels, BE	2 Feb 2020	closes 1 Dec
Indy Cloud Conf	Indianapolis, IN, US	26–27 Mar 2020	closes 21 Dec

Help wanted

• Volunteers needed for the Fedora booth at FOSDEM
• Testers wanted for testing multi-builds gating for rawhide packages in staging

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1600 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Friday with Infra — Friday

Releases

Fedora 31

Schedule

• 13 November — Elections nomination deadline
• 26 November — Fedora 29 EOL

Fedora 32

Changes

Announced

• On-demand side tags

Submitted to FESCo

• Better Thermal Management for the Workstation (FESCo ticket #2241)
• Modules In Non-Modular Buildroot (FESCo ticket #2255)

Approved by FESCo

• Replace Bazaar with Breezy
• binutils 2.33
• Free Pascal Compiler 3.2.0

CPE update

Community Application Handover & Retirement Updates

• Elections: Blocking issue was fixed
• Fedocal: jlanda started to work on communishift port
• Nuancier: Benson Muite is now working on OIDC authentication – Thank you Benson!
• Fed-msg: fedmsg-logger equivalent for fedora-messaging

Other Project updates

• Rawhide Gating:
  • A call to arms email has been sent asking for testers for multi build
  • Single build workflow is working again and is aligned with multi-build workflows also
  • Update for the multi-build workflow needs to be created with autotime on, otherwise the update will not get pushed
  • Overview page of the remaining blockers and dependencies organized at: https://hackmd.io/Gbuu9JOPR–Y2yNCBEYI5A?view
  • Ci.centos.org is still not using fedora-messaging
  • Ci-resultsdb-listener with fedora-messaging and support for the new messages format is not deployed in production yet
• repoSpanner
  • Developed another experimental patch that got us an ~83x speed up.
  • Got 122% performance patch merged.
  • Worked with smooge to get a repoSpanner cluster deployed on realistic cross-datacenter hardware.
  • repoSpanner is still extremely slow when all three DCs are used. Est. 58 minutes to push Bodhi into it, even with the 83x speedup patch. The team is investigating a solution.