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.
• If your Bugzilla automation is failing, you may need to make API authentication changes.
• Upcoming and recent summer time changes
• The Fedora Ambassador Call kick-off will be held at 1500 UTC on Thursday 31 March.
• Registration for the Fedora Mentor Summit is open.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
DebConf	Prizren, XK	17–24 Jul	closes 15 Apr
OSCAL	Tirana, AL	18–19 Jun	closes 19 Apr
Strange Loop	St. Louis, MO, US	22–24 Sep	closes 20 Apr
All Things Open	Raleigh, NC, US	30 Oct–2 Nov	closes 22 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
PyCon SK	Bratislava, SK	9–11 Sep	closes 30 Jun

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 319 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 40 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Submit your project and mentor proposals for Outreachy by 23 March

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
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• F36 Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5253
F35	3594
F36 (pre-release)	1623
Rawhide	6463

Fedora Linux 36

• 770 packages fail to build from source
• 82 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 2022-03-29 — Beta release target date #2
• 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	47

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2016613	anaconda	ON_QA	Accepted(Beta)
2064623	gnome-software	VERIFIED	Proposed(Beta)

Fedora Linux 37

• 793 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
Make pkexec and pkla-compat optional	Self-Contained	FESCo #2766
Drop i686 builds of jdk8,11,17 and latest (18) rpms from f37 onwards	System-Wide	FESCo #2772
Encourage Dropping Unused / Leaf Packages on i686	Self-Contained	FESCo #2773

Contributing

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