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

• F36 Beta freeze is underway. The Go/No-Go meeting is Thursday.
• Bugzilla API authentication changes on 28 February 14 March may require changes to your code.
• Upcoming summer time changes

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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:
  • 304 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 42 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Submit your project and mentor proposals for Outreachy by 23 March

Upcoming test days

• 7–13 March — Internationalization 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	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 — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• F36 Beta Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5276
F35	3503
F36 (pre-release)	1604
Rawhide	6418

Fedora Linux 36

• 786 packages fail to build from source
• 79 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 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
2016613	anaconda	POST	Accepted(Beta)
2018271	fedora-release	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2057193	firefox	ON_QA	Accepted(Beta)
2017043	mutter	ON_QA	Accepted(Beta)
2063156	mutter	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2037047	selinux-policy	ASSIGNED	Proposed(Beta)

Fedora Linux 37

• 809 packages fail to build from source
• 69 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
Make pkexec and pkla-compat optional	Self-Contained	FESCo #2766
Curl-minimal as default	System-Wide	Rejected
Boost 1.78 upgrade	System-Wide	Approved
Drop i686 builds of jdk8,11,17 and latest (18) rpms from f37 onwards	System-Wide	Announced
Encourage Dropping Unused / Leaf Packages on i686	Self-Contained	Announced

Contributing

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