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 F37 Beta freeze is underway!

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

Announcements

• Important changes to licesning guidelines.
• Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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:
  • 303 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 35 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• 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.

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
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F35	4070
F36	3726
F37 (pre-release)	1323
Rawhide	6300

Fedora Linux 37

• 918 packages fail to build from source
• 96 packages fail to install

Schedule

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

• 2022-09-13 — Current beta target date (early target date)

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	7
MODIFIED	5
ON_QA	38
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
2103835	osinfo-db	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
2110801	sddm	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
1907030	distribution	ASSIGNED	Proposed(Beta)
2115865	openssl-pkcs11	ASSIGNED	Proposed(Beta)
2121197	rpm-ostree	NEW	Proposed(Beta)

Fedora Linux 38

• 924 packages fail to build from source
• 94 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	FESCo #2857
Pcre deprecation	System-Wide	Announced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
libsoup 3: Part Two	System-Wide	Announced

Contributing

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