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. 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

• F35 elections voting begins on 26 November.
• Fedora Linux 33 reaches end of life on Tuesday 30 November.
• The Taiga instance on teams.fedoraproject.org will be retired on 17 December.
• Red Hat is hiring a software engineer to work on Toolbx.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
FOSS Backstage	Berlin, DE & virtual	17–18 Mar	closes 22 Nov
SCaLE	Pasadena, CA, US	5–8 Mar	closes 30 Nov

Help wanted

• 320 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.

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

Releases

Release	open bugs
F33	4649
F34	5524
F35	1805
F36 (rawhide)	6589

Fedora Linux 35

Elections

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

Fedora Linux 36

• 608 packages fail to build from source
• 52 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
Package information on ELF objects	System-Wide	FESCo #2687
Stratis 3.0.0	Self-Contained	Approved
Remove .la files from buildroot	Approved
java-17-openjdk as system JDK in F36	System-Wide	Approved
ELN-Extras	System-Wide	Announced
Unit Names in Systemd Messages	Self-Contained	Announced
Remove Wire Extensions Support	Self-Contained	Announced

Fedora Linux 37

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

Proposal	Type	Status
RetireARMv7	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.