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

• Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.
• Packages still needing a Python 3.11 rebuild will be retired before the Final freeze.
• Upcoming and recent summer time changes
• EPEL 8 modules will be sunset on 31 October.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Fedora Week of Diversity	virtual	14–15 Oct	closes 1 Oct
Python Web Conf	virtual	14–17 Mar	closes 1 Oct
RSA Conference	San Francisco, CA, US	24–27 Apr	closes 6 Oct
OLF	Columbus, OH, US	2–3 Dec	closes 15 Oct

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 310 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.
• The Community Platform Engineering team is hiring a software engineer in India

Upcoming test days

• 29 Sep–3 Oct — Fedora CoreOS 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 — 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	4003
F36	4142
F37 (beta)	1220
Rawhide	6383

Fedora Linux 37

• 754 packages fail to build from source
• 44 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
MODIFIED	2
ON_QA	43
CLOSED	2

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2049849	grub2	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2128662	abrt	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
2129358	glibc	POST	Accepted(Final)
2129914	gnome-maps	VERIFIED	Accepted(Final)
2130087	firefox	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2130964	gnome-calendar	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2130977	gnome-calendar	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2130981	gnome-calendar	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2130657	gnome-contacts	POST	Proposed(Final)
2130661	gnome-contacts	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2130927	gnome-photos	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2130937	gnome-photos	NEW	Proposed(Final)
2128423	gnome-settings-daemon	POST	Proposed(Final)
2127618	nautilus	NEW	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 38

• 796 packages fail to build from source
• 35 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	Approved
Strong crypto settings: phase 3, forewarning 2/2	System-Wide	FESCo #2865
Node.js Repackaging	Self-Contained	Approved
KTLS implementation for GnuTLS	System-Wide	Approved
PHP 8.2	Self-Contained	FESCo #2875
SWIG 4.1.0	Self-Contained	FESCo #2877

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
libsoup 3: Part Two	System-Wide	Rejected
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.