Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week. Fedora 29 will reach end of life on 26 November. Elections nominations are open through 13 November.

• Announcements
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

Announcements

• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Some Python 2 packages will be removed in mid-November.
• The Fedora Council is condering an extension to the Minimization Objective
• I wrote post about how to accomodate Flock in the release schedule. If you have opinions, please chime in on the devel mailing list thread.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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

• 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
• Build Python 3 to statically link with libpython3.8.a for better performance

Submitted to FESCo

• Modules In Non-Modular Buildroot (FESCo ticket #2255)
• Annobin used by Bodhi (FESCo ticket #2268)
• iptables-nft-default (FESCo ticket #2269)
• Translation platform migratration to Weblate (FESCo ticket #2270)

Rejected by FESCo

• Better Thermal Management for the Workstation

CPE update

Community Application Handover & Retirement Updates

• Elections — Blocking issue was fixed (https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8253)
• Fedocal — jlanda hitting permission error in communishift https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8274
• Nuancier — Benson Muite is now working on OIDC authentication. We are emailing him to check the progress and if he needs any help
• fpaste — Updated fpaste CLI appears to have landed in EPEL. Writing a commblog about it. Sunset date: 1 December 2019.
• Badges — GDPR query under investigation