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)!

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The Fedora Linux 35 mass rebuild has completed.

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

Announcements

• Long-term FTBFS packages will be retired next week.
• A new webpage to find packager sponsors is now available.
• Bugzilla will be under maintenance for infrastructure upgrades and will be unavailable on July 31st between 12:30 AM – 05:30 AM UTC.
• CentOS Stream 9 chroots are available in Copr.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
SeaGL	virtual	5–6 Nov	closes 5 August
Linux Foundation Member Summit	Napa, CA, US	2–4 Nov	closes 8 August
CentOS Dojo	virtual	7–8 Oct	closes 6 September
Ohio Linux Fest	Columbus, OH, US	early Dec	closes 1 October

Help wanted

• 186 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Help me verify the tasks before I make the F37–42 release schedules

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
1953675	kf5-akonadi-server	NEW
1951492	annobin	ASSIGNED

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Nest With Fedora — Thursday–Saturday

Releases

Fedora Linux 35

• 672 packages fail to build from source
• 152 packages fail to install
• 7615 open (Rawhide) bugs

Schedule

• 2021-08-10 — F35 branches from Rawhide, F36 development begins
• 2021-08-10 — Change complete (testable) deadline
• 2021-08-24 — Change complete (100%) deadline

For the full schedule, see the schedule website.

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
tzdata-minimal	Self-Contained	Withdrawn
libffi 3.4	System-Wide	Deferred to F36
Enhanced Inscript as default Indic IM	Self-Contained	Approved
Switch to WirePlumber as the PipeWire session manager	Self-Contained	FESCo #2653
Use power-profiles-daemon on Workstation	Self-Contained	FESCo #2655
Restart User Services after Upgrade	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Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week.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.

Fedora Linux 36

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
libffi 3.4	System-Wide	FESCo #2650

Contributing

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