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

• Important changes to licesning guidelines.
• Inactive provenpackagers will be removed from the group on 23 August.
• Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
PyGeekle	virtual	6–7 Sep	closes 24 Aug
EuroRust	Berlin, DE and virtual	13–14 Oct	closes 28 Aug
Denver Dev Day	Denver, CO, US	20–21 Oct	closes 2 Sep
Vue.js Live	London, UK and virtual	28, 31 Oct	closes 5 Sep
EmacsConf	virtual	3–4 Dec	closes 18 Sep
ConFoo	Montreal, CA	22–24 Feb	closes 23 Sep
JavaLand	Brühl, DE	21–23 Mar	closes 26 Sep
Python Web Conf	virtual	14–17 Mar	closes 1 Oct

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 298 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 35 need a sponsor
• Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
• Volunteers needed for Fedora Week of Diversity 2022
• Volunteers needed for Fedora Badges maintenance.
• Are you an EPEL user or contributor? Take the EPEL survey.

Upcoming test days

• 2022-08-14–21 — Kernel 5.19 Test Week
• 2022-08-15–21 — GNOME 43 Beta Test Week

Meetings & events

• Blocker reivew 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

Releases

Release	open bugs
F35	4110
F36	3665
F37 (pre-release)	1397
Rawhide	6297

Prioritized Bugs

See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Bug ID	Component	Status
2079833	cmake	VERIFIED

Fedora Linux 37

• 976 packages fail to build from source
• 105 packages fail to install

Schedule

Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.

• 2022-08-23 — Beta freeze begins, Change complete (100% complete) deadline
• 2022-09-13 — Current beta target date (early target date)

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	11
MODIFIED	17
ON_QA	24
CLOSED	1

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

Proposal	Type	Status
Emacs 28	Self-Contained	Approved

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2117706	kde-settings	ON_WA	Accepted(Beta)
2110801	sddm	POST	Accepted(Beta)
2101229	anaconda	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1907030	dnf	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2117859	openssl-okcs11	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2103835	osinfo-db	NEW	Proposed(Beta)

Fedora Linux 38

• 980 packages fail to build from source
• 105 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
Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags	System-Wide	FESCo #2817
Minizip Renaming	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.