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)!

Fedora Linux 36 will be released on Tuesday 10 May.

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.
• The email address for Fedora Discussion notifications is changing.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
RustConf	Portland, OR, US & virtual	4–5 Aug	closes 8 May
CentOS Summer Dojo	virtual	17 Jun	open
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
I Code Java	Johannesburg, ZA & hybrid	12–14 Oct	closes 5 Jun
PyCon SK	Bratislava, SK	9–11 Sep	closes 30 Jun
SREcon22 EMEA	Amsterdam, NL	25–27 Oct	closes 30 Jun
Write the Docs Prague	virtual	11–13 Sep	closes 30 Jun
NodeConf EU	Kilkenny, IE & virtual	3–5 Oct	closes 6 Jul

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 311 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

Meetings & events

• 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
• F36 Release Party — Friday and Saturday in Hopin

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	5217
F35	4240
F36 (pre-release)	1812
Rawhide	6909

Fedora Linux 36

• 592 packages fail to build from source
• 52 packages fail to install

Schedule

• 2022-05-10 — Target date #3
• 2022-05-11 — Election nominations open
• 2022-05-25 — Election nominations end

See the schedule website for the full schedule.

Fedora Linux 37

• 620 packages fail to build from source
• 58 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
Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 1/2	System-Wide	Announced
Node.js 18.x by default	System-Wide	Announced
Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 1/2	System-Wide	Announced
Perl 5.36	System-Wide	Announced

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.