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

• Project suggestions for the next Outreachy round are due 20 Sept.
• F35 Beta freeze is underway. See the full schedule for more milestones.

CfPs

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

Help wanted

• 194 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Let mattdm know your stories from Fedora history

Upcoming test days

• 7–15 Sept — i18n test week
• 9–17 Sept — GNOME 41 test week
• 12–20 Sept — Kernel 5.14 test week
• 15 Sept — Audio test day

Prioritized Bugs

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

Upcoming meetings

• Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• 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 — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on Matrix
• Fedora Linux 35 Beta Go/No-Go meeting —1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting

Releases

Release	open bugs
F33	5208
F34	4715
F35 (pre-release)	1114
F36 (rawhide)	5980

Fedora Linux 35

• 303 packages fail to build from source
• 100 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 2021-09-21 — Beta release target #1
• 2021-10-05 — Final freeze begins
• 2021-10-19 — Early Final target date
• 2021-10-22 — Final target date #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	2
ON_QA	41

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1989726	mesa	NEW	Accepted (Beta)
1999321	freeipa	NEW	Accepted (Beta)
1999180	bcm283x-firmware	ASSIGNED	Accepted (Beta)
1996998	gdm	NEW	Accepted (Beta)
2002609	PackageKit	NEW	Accepted (Beta)
1997310	selinux-policy	ASSIGNED	Accepted (Beta)

Fedora Linux 36

• 368 packages fail to build from source
• 94 packages fail to install

Changes

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

Proposal	Type	Status

Contributing

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