Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! The Beta freeze is underway.

I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

• Announcements
• Calls for Participation
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases

Announcements

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
DevConf.US	virtual	2-3 Sep	closes 31 May

Help wanted

• 256 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Project proposals and mentor volunteers for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 are due by 28 February

Upcoming test days

• 3 March — Pipewire
• 8-15 March — Kernel 5.11
• 9-15 March — i18n

Prioritized Bugs

• See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Bug ID	Component	Status
1883609	shim	ASSIGNED

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 2100 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1800 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix

Releases

Fedora 34

Schedule

Upcoming key schedule milestones:

• 2021-03-16 — Beta release early target
• 2021-03-23 — Beta release target #1

Changes

Change tracker bug status. See the ChangeSet page for details of approved changes.

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	1
MODIFIED	3
ON_QA	49
CLOSED	3

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1929940	dogtag-pki	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1930977	mesa	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1931070	mesa	ON_QA	Proposed(Beta)
1930978	xorg-x11-server	NEW	Proposed(Beta)

Fedora 35

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
Autoconf-2.71	System-Wide	FESCo #2579
POWER 4k page size	System-Wide	FESCo #2581
rpmautospec – removing release and changelog fields from spec files	System-Wide	FESCo #2582

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.

Contributing

Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.