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 reached end of life on Tuesday. 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 reached 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.
• The Anaconda upstream mailing list is moving. You will need to resubscribe on the new list.
• EPEL 9 is now available

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
CentOS Dojo @ FOSDEM	virtual	3–4 Feb	[closes 9 Jan](https://forms.gle/mwEUJ65xYYsCUnYo6
Red Hat Summit	TBD	late spring	closes 5 Jan

Help wanted

• 323 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• 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.

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
• Council meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F33 (EOL)	4611
F34	5523
F35	2056
F36 (rawhide)	6722

Fedora Linux 35

Elections

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

Fedora Linux 36

• 293 packages fail to build from source
• 63 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	Approved
Unit Names in Systemd Messages	Self-Contained	Approved
Remove Wire Extensions Support	Self-Contained	Approved
ostree native containers / CoreOS layering	System-Wide	FESCo #2704
Plocate as the default locate implementation	Self-Contained	FESCo #2705
PostgreSQL 14	Self-Contained	FESCo #2706
LXQt 1.0.0	Self-Contained	Announced
Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI.	Self-Contained	Announced
Enable fs-verity in RPM	System-Wide	Announced
Switch GnuTLS to allowlisting	System-Wide	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	Approved

Contributing

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