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
- The F36 Mass Rebuild is complete.
- The LXDE mailing list is closed. For questions about LXDE, use the upstream mailing list. For questions about LXDE in Fedora Linux, use the users mailing list or Ask Fedora.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch PHP Conference | Amsterdam, NL | 1–2 Jul | closes 30 Jan |
| WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2022 | Berlin, DE | 14–15 Jun | closes 31 Jan |
| phpday | Verona, IT & virtual | 19–20 May | closes 1 Feb |
| OpenSource 101 | virtual | 29 Mar | closes 4 Feb |
| javascript & friends | Columbus, OH, US | 29 Jul | closes 13 Feb |
| LeadDev London | London, UK | 7–8 Jun | closes 14 Feb |
| Open Source Summit NA | Austin, TX, US & virtual | 21–24 Jun | closes 14 March |
| openSUSE Conference | Nuremberg, DE | 2–4 Jun | closes 14 Apr |
| Container Days | Hamburg, DE & virtual | 5–7 Sep | closes 30 Apr |
| Open Source Summit Europe | Dublin, IE & virtual | 13–16 Sep | closes 30 May |
Help wanted
- 298 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- The Docs Team is looking to revitalize
- Your feedback is wanted on our 2022 contributor conference
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.
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
- Council meeting — 1800 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
- DevConf.CZ (virtual) — 28–29 Jan
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F34 | 5404 |
| F35 | 2918 |
| F36 (rawhide) | 8066 |
Fedora Linux 36
- 1182 packages fail to build from source
- 133 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.
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 |
| Enable fs-verity in RPM | System-Wide | FESCo #2711 |
| DIGLIM | System-Wide | FESCo #2721 |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.
I think you missed FYSY, that will be next week
It’s not that I missed it so much as that there was nothing outward-facing to point to.
Got it. The magazine announcement will be published this Monday, maybe then
@bcotton would it make sense to also have a report on review requests blocking
NEEDSPONSOR? Our documentation now does a decent job of directing potential sponsee to ping a suitable sponsor, but some people are probably uncomfortable doing that, and I know I often forgot to check that queue.That’s a great suggestion. I’ll start including it