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. F34 Beta release candidate 3 was declared go and will be released on the “target date #1” milestone of 23 March.

The rollout of the new account system starts at 1030 UTC on Thursday 25 March. It will last approximately two days. Expect issues logging in to some services during this window.

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.

Remember that many locations are changing to/from summer time in the next few weeks.

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

Announcements

• The rollout of the new account system starts at 1030 UTC on Thursday 25 March and will last approximately two days.
• Copr release 2021-03-17 is available, including support for running fedora-review during the build.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
openSUSE Virtual Conference	virtual	18-20 June	closes 4 May
DevConf.US	virtual	2-3 Sep	closes 31 May

Help wanted

• 153 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

Upcoming test days

• 18-26 March — systemd-oomd

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix

Releases

Fedora Linux 34

Schedule

Upcoming key schedule milestones:

• 2021-03-23 — Beta release target #1
• 2021-04-06 — Final freeze begins at 1400 UTC
• 2021-04-20 — Final release early target
• 2021-04-27 — Final release target #1

Changes

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

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	1
ON_QA	51
CLOSED	4

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1919483	anaconda	MODIFIED	Accepted(Final)
1928321	man-pages-l10n	MODIFIED	Accepted(Final)
1929938	man-pages-l10n	MODIFIED	Accepted(Final)
1929643	sddm	NEW	Accepted(Final)
1938630	shim	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
1937783	abrt	NEW	Proposed(Final)
1939751	LiveCD – KDE	NEW	Proposed(Final)
1940715	systemd	NEW	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 35

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
rpmautospec – removing release and changelog fields from spec files	System-Wide	FESCo #2582
“Fedora Linux” in /etc/os-release	System-Wide	FESCo #2588
Reduce dependencies on python3-setuptools	System-Wide	Announced

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.