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

• Congratulations to the winners of the F35 elections
• 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
Distributions DevRoom @ FOSDEM	virtual	5–6 Feb	closes 20 Dec
CentOS Dojo @ FOSDEM	virtual	3–4 Feb	closes 9 Jan
Red Hat Summit	TBD	late spring	closes 5 Jan

Help wanted

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

Upcoming test days

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
F34	5512
F35	2135
F36 (rawhide)	6805

Fedora Linux 36

• 282 packages fail to build from source
• 62 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 2021-12-22 — Deadline for Change proposals that require infrastructure changes
• 2021-12-28 — Deadline for System-Wide Change proposals and proposals that require mass rebuild
• 2022-01-18 — Deadline for Self-Contained Change proposals
• 2022-01-19 — Mass rebuild begins
• 2022-02-08 — F36 branches from Rawhide; Rawhide begins F37 development

Changes

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

Proposal	Type	Status
ostree native containers / CoreOS layering	System-Wide	Approved
Plocate as the default locate implementation	Self-Contained	Approved
PostgreSQL 14	Self-Contained	FESCo #2706
LXQt 1.0.0	Self-Contained	FESCo #2707
Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI.	Self-Contained	FESCo #2708
Enable fs-verity in RPM	System-Wide	Announced
Switch GnuTLS to allowlisting	System-Wide	Announced
Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root	System-Wide	Announced
Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver	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.