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
• Meetings & Events
• Releases

Announcements

• The F36 Mass Rebuild is underway.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Dutch PHP Conference	Amsterdam, NL	1–2 Jul	closes 30 Jan
WWeAreDevelopers World Congress 2022	Berlin, DE	14–15 Jun	closes 31 Jan
OpenSource 101	virtual	29 Mar	closes 4 Feb
Open Source Summit NA	Austin, TX, US & virtual	21–24 Jun	closes 14 March

Help wanted

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

Upcoming test days

• 23–29 January — Kernel 5.16 Test Week

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
1955416	shim	NEW
2032528	flatpak	NEW

Meetings & events

• Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
• FESCo meeting — 1800 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-2
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• DevConf.CZ (virtual) — 28–29 Jan

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5418
F35	2757
F36 (rawhide)	7155

Fedora Linux 36

• 252 packages fail to build from source
• 102 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 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
Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI.	Self-Contained	FESCo #2708
Enable fs-verity in RPM	System-Wide	FESCo #2711
Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root	System-Wide	FESCo #2713
GHC compiler parallel version installs	Self-Contained	FESCo #2715
Keylime subpackaging and agent alternatives	Self-Contained	FESCo #2716
Golang 1.18	System-Wide	FESCo #2720
DIGLIM	System-Wide	FESCp #2721
Default To Noto Fonts	System-Wide	Approved
Hunspell Dictionary dir change	System-Wide	Approved
Relocate RPM database to /usr	System-Wide	Approved
No ifcfg by default	Self-Contained	FESCo #2732
Django 4.0	Self-Contained	Approved
GNU Toolchain Update	System-Wide	Announced
New requirements for akmods binary kernel modules for Silverblue / Kinoite support	Self-Contained	FESCo #2735
Malayalam Default Fonts Update	Self-Contained	FESCo #2736
Ibus-table cangjie default for zh_HK	Self-Contained	FESCO #2737
MLT-7	Self-Contained	Announced
Ruby on Rails 7.0	Self-Contained	Announced
Wayland by Default for SDDM	Self-Contained	Announced
Authselect: Move State Files to /etc	Self-Contained	Announced
Silverblue and Kinoite will have /var on its own Btrfs subvolume	Self-Contained	Announced
Cockpit File Sharing	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
Python Dist RPM provides to only provide PEP503-normalized names	Self-Contained	Announce

Contributing

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