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 Final freeze begins Tuesday.
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
- The F34 Final freeze begins Tuesday.
- The localization statistics dashboard is now available in staging.
- The Council is considering an update of the default content license.
CfPs
Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
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elementary Developer Weekend | virtual | 26-27 June | closes ~20 Apr |
Akademy | virtual | 18-25 June | closes 2 May |
openSUSE Virtual Conference | virtual | 18-20 June | closes 4 May |
DevConf.US | virtual | 2-3 Sep | closes 31 May |
Help wanted
- 147 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
Prioritized Bugs
- See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Bug ID | Component | Status |
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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-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix
Releases
Fedora Linux 34
Schedule
Upcoming key schedule milestones:
- 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 |
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ASSIGNED | 1 |
ON_QA | 51 |
CLOSED | 4 |
Blockers
Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
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1929643 | sddm | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
1938630 | shim | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Final) |
1943943 | plasma-discover | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
1942443 | gdm | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
Fedora Linux 35
Changes
Proposal | Type | Status |
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rpmautospec – removing release and changelog fields from spec files | System-Wide | Approved |
“Fedora Linux” in /etc/os-release | System-Wide | Approved |
Reduce dependencies on python3-setuptools | System-Wide | FESCo #2590 |
RPM 4.17 | System-Wide | Announced |
Smaller Container Base Image (remove sssd-client, util-linux, shadow-utils) | Self-Contained | 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.
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