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)!

Election nominations are open through 25 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

• Backwards-incompatible changes will come when Bodhi 6.0 is deployed after the F36 release.
• The email address for Fedora Discussion notifications is changing.
• The Nest With Fedora CfP is open!
• The F36 release retrospective survey is open. Your opinion is important.
• Fedora Linux 34 will reach end of life on Tuesday 7 Jun.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
React India	Goa, IN & virtual	22–24 Sep	closes 30 Jun
NodeConf EU	Kilkenny, IE & virtual	3–5 Oct	closes 6 Jul
Nest With Fedora	virtual	4–6 Aug	closes 8 Jul

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 304 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 38 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

Releases

Release	open bugs
F34	6115
F35	4298
F36	2103
Rawhide	6903

Fedora Linux 36

Schedule

• 2022-05-25 — Election nominations end
• 2022-06-03 — Election voting begins
• 2022-06-16 — Election voting ends

See the schedule website for the full schedule.

Fedora Linux 37

• 586 packages fail to build from source
• 73 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	Withdrawn
Replace jwhois package with whois for Fedora Workstation	Self-Contained	Approved
Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 1/2	System-Wide	FESCo #2788
Node.js 18.x by default	System-Wide	Approved
Perl 5.36	System-Wide	Approved
Build all JDKs in Fedora against in-tree libraries and with static stdc++lib	System-Wide	FESCo #2794
Python: Add -P to default shebangs	System-Wide	FESCo #2795
BIOS boot.iso with GRUB2	System-Wide	Announced
Install Using GPT on x86_64 BIOS by Default	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
SPDX License Phase 1	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.