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

Announcements

• Compatibility-breaking changes are coming to Datanomer and Datagrepper.
• F35 Beta freeze is underway. See the full schedule for more milestones.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
CentOS Dojo	virtual	7–8 Oct	closes 6 September
Ohio Linux Fest	Columbus, OH, US	early Dec	closes 1 October
DevConf.CZ	Brno, CZ & virtual	28–29 Jan	closes 24 October
SCaLE	Pasadena, CA, US	5–8 Mar	closes 30 Nov

Help wanted

• 188 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
1949712	selinux-policy	NEW
1988459	kexec-tools	CLOSED

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix

Releases

Fedora Linux 35

• 333 packages fail to build from source
• 114 packages fail to install
• 1157 open bugs

Schedule

• 2021-09-14 — Beta release early target
• 2021-09-21 — Beta release target #1

For the full schedule, see the schedule website.

Changes

See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

BZ Status	Count
ASSIGNED	1
MODIFIED	3
ON_QA	40

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1983861	pipewire	NEW	Accepted (Beta)
1993238	distribution	NEW	Accepted (Beta)
1996223	blivet-gui	MODIFIED	Accepted (Beta)
1989726	gnome-shell	NEW	Accepted (Beta)
1995817	PackageKit	NEW	Accepted (Beta)

Fedora Linux 36

• 332 packages fail to build from source
• 112 packages fail to install
• 5794 open (Rawhide) bugs

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
MinGW debug symbols location change	System-Wide	Approved

Contributing

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