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)!

F36 Beta is go for release on Tuesday.

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• Announcements
• Calls for Participation
• Help wanted
• Meetings & Events
• Releases

Announcements

• F36 Beta freeze is underway.
• 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.
• The F36 Release Party will be 13–14 May.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
CodeLand	virtual	16–17 Jun	closes 29 Mar
Devfest Lille	Lille, FR	10 Jun	closes 31 March
DevConf	Łódź, PL	1–2 Sep	closes 9 Apr
TechBash	Pocono Manor, PA, US	8–11 Nov	closes 13 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:
  • 326 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 39 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine

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
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5266
F35	3746
F36 (pre-release)	1642
Rawhide	6555

Fedora Linux 36

• 762 packages fail to build from source
• 81 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	1
ON_QA	48

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2049849	grub2	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2043335	gtk4	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2062660	mutter	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
2056927	nss-mdns	ON_QA	Accepted(Final)
2057563	plasma-discover	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2068015	gnome-connections	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2066717	gvfs	MODIFIED	Proposed(Final)
2063156	mutter	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2066427	rpm	ON_QA	Proposed(Final)
2066703	tracker-miners	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2067151	xorg-x11-server	NEW	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 37

• 787 packages fail to build from source
• 62 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.