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)!

Fedora Linux 33 will reach end of life on Tuesday 30 November. Nominations for the F35 elections cycle are now open.

The F35 retrospective survey is open through 4 December.

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.

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

Announcements

• Nominations are open for the F35 elections
• Registration is open for the F35 Release Party.
• Fedora Linux 33 reaches end of life on Tuesday 30 November.
• The Taiga instance on teams.fedoraproject.org will be retired on 17 December.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
FOSDEM devrooms	online	5–6 Feb	closes 15 Nov
SCaLE	Pasadena, CA, US	5–8 Mar	closes 30 Nov

Help wanted

• 359 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• The Fedora CoreOS team wants your feedback. Please take their short communication survey.
• What worked well—and what didn’t—during the F35 release cycle? Let me know in the retrospective survey by 4 December.
• The Design team wants your help brainstorming F36 wallpaper designs.

Upcoming test days

The call for F36 Test Days is open.

• 14–21 Nov — Kernel 5.15 Test Week

Prioritized Bugs

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

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 #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F33	4662
F34	5536
F35	1680
F36 (rawhide)	6553

Fedora Linux 35

Elections

• 2021-11-17 — Nomination period ends
• 2021-11-17 — Interview period begins
• 2021-11-24 — Interview period ends
• 2021-11-26 — Voting begins
• 2021-12-09 — Voting ends
• 2021-12-10 — Results announced

Fedora Linux 36

• 324 packages fail to build from source
• 57 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
OpenLDAP 2.5	System-Wide	Approved
Drop NIS(+) support from PAM	System-Wide	Approved
Retire the NIS(+) user-space utility programs	System-Wide	Approved
Package information on ELF objects	System-Wide	FESCo #2687
Replace the fbdev drivers with simpledrm and the DRM fbdev emulation layer	System-Wide	Approved
Rubygem Cucumber 7.1.0	Self-Contained	Approved
Stratis 3.0.0	Self-Contained	FESCo #2691
Remove .la files from buildroot	Self-Contained	FESCo #2693
java-17-openjdk as system JDK in F36	System-Wide	FESCo #2694
ELN-Extras	System-Wide	Announced

Contributing

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