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 is underway.
• 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
SCaLE	Pasadena, CA, US	5–8 Mar	closes 30 Nov

Help wanted

• 319 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.
• jjames is looking for maintainers to take over mathematical packages.

Upcoming test days

The call for F36 Test Days is open.

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	4622
F34	5514
F35	1965
F36 (rawhide)	6641

Fedora Linux 35

Elections

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

Fedora Linux 36

• 305 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
Package information on ELF objects	System-Wide	FESCo #2687
ELN-Extras	System-Wide	FESCo #2700
Unit Names in Systemd Messages	Self-Contained	FESCo #2701
Remove Wire Extensions Support	Self-Contained	FESCo #2702
ostree native containers / CoreOS layering	System-Wide	Announced
Plocate as the default locate implementation	Self-Contained Change	Announced
PostgreSQL 14	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	FESCo #2703

Contributing

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