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
- F36 Beta freeze is underway. The Go/No-Go meeting is Thursday.
- Bugzilla API authentication changes on
28 February14 March may require changes to your code.
CfPs
Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
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GopherCon | Lake Buena Vista, FL, US | 26–28 Sep | closes 6 Mar |
REFACTR.TECH | Atlanda, GA, US | 14–16 Sep | closes 6 Mar |
Open Source Summit NA | Austin, TX, US & virtual | 21–24 Jun | closes 14 March |
WE22 | 20–22 Oct | Houston, TX, US | closes 14 Mar |
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:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your project and mentor proposals for Outreachy by 23 March
Upcoming test days
- 28 February–7 March — GNOME 42 test week
- 7–13 March — Internationalization test week
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
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
- Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Fedora Social Hour — 1500 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
- F36 Beta Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- Council Video Meeting: ELN SIG — 1800 UTC Thursday in Bluejeans
Releases
Release | open bugs |
---|---|
F34 | 5286 |
F35 | 3413 |
F36 (pre-release) | 1613 |
Rawhide | 6354 |
Fedora Linux 36
- 814 packages fail to build from source
- 80 packages fail to install
Schedule
- 2022-03-15 — Beta release early target date
- 2022-03-22 — Beta release target date #1
- 2022-03-29 — Retirement of FailsToInstall packages in NEW state
- 2022-04-05 — Final freeze begins
See the schedule website for the full schedule.
Changes
Status | Count |
---|---|
ASSIGNED | 2 |
ON_QA | 49 |
Blockers
Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
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2016613 | anaconda | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Beta) |
2032085 | anaconda | ON_QA | Accepted(Beta) |
2018271 | fedora-release | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Beta) |
2052433 | mlocate | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Beta) |
2017043 | mutter | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Beta) |
2057531 | plasma-discover | VERIFIED | Accepted(Beta) |
2057193 | firefox | NEW | Accepted(Beta) |
2057600 | oz | ON_QA | Accepted(Beta) |
2057719 | gnome-control-center | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
2060414 | dnfdragora | NEW | Proposed(Beta) |
Fedora Linux 37
- 825 packages fail to build from source
- 60 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 |
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Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root | System-Wide | FESCo #2713 |
MinGW toolchain update | System-Wide | Approved |
Make pkexec and pkla-compat optional | Self-Contained | FESCo #2766 |
Enable read only /sysroot for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite | Self-Contained | Approved |
Curl-minimal as default | System-Wide | FESCo #2768 |
Boost 1.78 upgrade | System-Wide | FESCo #2769 |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.
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