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 will be released on Tuesday.

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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.
• Fedora Linux 37 Beta RC 1.5 is GO for release.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
OLF	Columbus, OH, US	2–3 Dec	closes 15 Oct

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 301 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 33 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.
• Projects and mentors needed for the next Outreachy cohort.

Upcoming test days

• 6–12 September — Internationalization (i18n) Test Week
• 7–14 September — GNOME 43 RC Test Week

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

Releases

Release	open bugs
F35	4045
F36	3915
F37 (pre-release)	1246
Rawhide	6279

Fedora Linux 37

• 818 packages fail to build from source
• 82 packages fail to install

Schedule

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

• 2022-09-13 — Beta release (early target date)
• 2022-10-04 — Final freeze begins
• 2022-10-18 — Current final target (early target date)

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	2
MODIFIED	2
ON_QA	42
CLOSED	1

Fedora Linux 38

• 826 packages fail to build from source
• 70 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	FESCo #2862
Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 2/2	System-Wide	FESCo #2865
Node.js Repackaging	Self-Contained	Announced
KTLS implementation for GnuTLS	System-Wide	Announced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
libsoup 3: Part Two	System-Wide	FESCo #2863
Replace DNF with DNF5	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.