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)!

The F36 Final freeze is underway. F36 Final is on track for target date #3 (2022-05-10).

I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

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

Announcements

• F36 Final freeze began 2022-04-05.
• The F36 Release Party will be 13–14 May.
• Backwards-incompatible changes will come when Bodhi 6.0 is deployed after the F36 release.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
DevConf.US	Boston, MA	18–20 Aug	closes 30 Apr
Container Days	Hamburg, DE & virtual	5–7 Sep	closes 30 Apr
ShipItCon	Dublin, IE	Sep	closes 30 Apr
RustConf	Portland, OR, US & virtual	4–5 Aug	closes 8 May
DDD Perth	Perth, AU	9 Sep	closes 27 May
Open Source Summit Europe	Dublin, IE & virtual	13–16 Sep	closes 30 May
#a11yTO	Toronto, ON, CA & virtual	20–21 Oct	closes 31 May
PyCon SK	Bratislava, SK	9–11 Sep	closes 30 Jun
SREcon22 EMEA	Amsterdam, NL	25–27 Oct	closes 30 Jun

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 319 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 41 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

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
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• F36 Final Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5227
F35	4155
F36 (pre-release)	1793
Rawhide	6757

Fedora Linux 36

• 602 packages fail to build from source
• 50 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 2022-05-10 — Target date #3

See the schedule website for the full schedule.

Changes

Status	Count
ON_QA	49

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2056303	selinux-policy	ON_QA	Accepted(Final)
2079308	gnome-photos	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2079344	gnome-photos	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2072070	wpa_supplicant	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2079274	gnome-contacts	NEW	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 37

• 624 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
Deprecate Legacy BIOS	System-Wide	Rejected
RPM 4.18	System-Wide	Approved
Legacy Xorg Driver Removal	System-Wide	Approved
Haskell GHC 9 & Stackage LTS 19	Self-Contained	Approved
Replace jwhois package with whois for Fedora Workstation	Self-Contained	FESCo #2785

Fedora Linux 38

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Major upgrade of Microdnf	Self-Contained	FESCo #2784

Contributing

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