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

• Inactive provenpackagers will be removed from the group.
• F36 Beta freeze is underway.
• Bugzilla API authentication changes on 28 February 14 March may require changes to your code.
• Long-term FTBFS packages will be retired in March

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
RailsConf	Portland, OR, US & virtual	17–19 May	closes 28 Feb
JavaCro	Proljeće, HR	15–17 May	closes 28 Feb
app.js conf	Kraków, PL	8–10 Jun	closes 28 Feb
POUG 2022	Warsaw, PL & virtual	9–10 Sep	closes 28 Feb
Penguicon	Detroit, MI, US	22–24 Apr	CfP open
GopherCon	Lake Buena Vista, FL, US	26–28 Sep	closes 6 Mar
REFACTR.TECH	Atlanda, GA, US	14–16 Sep	closes 6 March
Open Source Summit NA	Austin, TX, US & virtual	21–24 Jun	closes 14 March
OSCAL	Tirana, AL	18–19 Jun	CfP open
Devfest Lille	Lille, FR	10 Jun	closes 31 March
DevConf	Łódź, PL	1–2 Sep	closes 9 Apr
openSUSE Conference	Nuremberg, DE	2–4 Jun	closes 14 Apr
DevConf.US	Boston, MA	18–20 Aug	closes 15 Apr
Upstream	virtual	7 Jun	closes 15 Apr
Container Days	Hamburg, DE & virtual	5–7 Sep	closes 30 Apr
ShipItCon	Dublin, IE	Sep	closes 30 Apr
Open Source Summit Europe	Dublin, IE & virtual	13–16 Sep	closes 30 May

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 329 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 49 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Mentored Projects team is looking for project ideas and mentors for GSoC and Outreachy 2022.
• Join the inaugural monthly Ambassadors call.
• Submit your proposals for Outreachy projects by March 3.

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
1955416	shim	POST
2037047	selinux-policy	ASSIGNED

Meetings & events

• Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
• FESCo meeting — 1800 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 2000 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• EPEL Office Hours — 1700 UTC Wednesday in Jitsi
• Council meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday (note new time/day) in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5287
F35	3372
F36 (pre-release)	1613
Rawhide	6288

Fedora Linux 36

• 837 packages fail to build from source
• 69 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 2022-02-22 — Code completion (100% complete) deadline, Beta freeze begins
• 2022-03-15 — Beta release early target date

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	4
MODIFIED	1
ON_QA	47

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2016613	anaconda	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2032085	anaconda	POST	Accepted(Beta)
2018271	fedora-release	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2052433	mlocate	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2017043	mutter	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2057531	plasma-discover	ON_QA	Accepted(Beta)
2057419	sddm	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
2057193	firefox	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2057719	gnome-control-center	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2057600	initial-setup	NEW	Proposed(Beta)

Fedora Linux 37

• 840 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
Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root	System-Wide	FESCo #2713
MinGW toolchain update	System-Wide	FESCo #2763
Make pkexec and pkla-compat optional	Self-Contained	FESCo #2766
Enable read only /sysroot for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite	Self-Contained	FESCo #2767
Curl-minimal as default	System-Wide	Announced
Boost 1.78 upgrade	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.