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)! F37 Beta was released on Tuesday.

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

Announcements

• Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.
• Fedora Linux 37 Beta was released on Tuesday.
• Packages still needing a Python 3.11 rebuild will be retired before the Final freeze.

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.

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	4027
F36	3995
F37 (beta)	1209
Rawhide	6203

Fedora Linux 37

• 789 packages fail to build from source
• 70 packages fail to install

Schedule

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

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

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	1
MODIFIED	2
ON_QA	43
CLOSED	1

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2088113	anaconda	ON_QA	Accepted(Final)
2111003	gnome-contacts	ON_QA	Accepted(Final)
2123494	gnome-initial-setup	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
2121110	gnome-shell	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
2125252	gnome-shell	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2124869	gnome-software	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2121944	greenboot	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2049849	grub2	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2123274	mesa	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2124127	uboot-tools	ON_QA	Accepted(Final)
2106868	chrome-gnome-shell	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2125439	gnome-shell	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2127192	gnome-shell-extension-background-logo	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2121106	systemd	NEW	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 38

• 796 packages fail to build from source
• 54 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	Approved
Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 2/2	System-Wide	FESCo #2865
Node.js Repackaging	Self-Contained	FESCo #2869
KTLS implementation for GnuTLS	System-Wide	FESCo #2871

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	FESCo #2870

Contributing

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