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.
• Upcoming and recent summer time changes
• EPEL 8 modules will be sunset on 31 October.
• Registration for the Fedora Linux 37 Release Party is open.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
SREcon Americas	Santa Clara, CA, US	21–23 Mar	closes 1 Dec
SCaLE 20x	Pasadena, CA, US	9–12 Mar	closes 2 Dec
Config Mmanagement Camp	Ghent, BE	6–8 Feb	closes 4 Dec
USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation	Boston, MA, US	10–13 Jul	closes 6 Dec
ElixirConf EU	Lisbon, PT	20–21 Apr	closes 11 Dec
CypherCon	Milwaukee, WI, US	30–31 Mar	closes 31 Dec
USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Boston, MA, US	10–12 Jul	closes 5 Jan
JSDay IE	Dublin, IE	26 Sep	closes 28 Feb

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 262 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 38 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
• Updates to deprecated Fedora Developer pages are needed.

Meetings & events

• Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• 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
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare

Releases

Release	open bugs
F35	3955
F36	4370
F37 (beta)	1296
Rawhide	6649

Prioritized Bugs

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

Fedora Linux 37

• 704 packages fail to build from source
• 32 packages fail to install

Schedule

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

• 2022-11-15 — Current final target (target date #3)

Changes

Status	Count
ON_QA	44
CLOSED	2

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2135772	gnome-calendar	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2137600	kwin	NEW	Accepted(Final)
2137661	openssl	NEW	Proposed(Final)

Fedora Linux 38

• 716 packages fail to build from source
• 36 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
Deprecate python-toml	Self-Contained	Approved
RPM Sequoia	System-Wide	Approved
PostgreSQL 15	Self-Contained	FESCo #2882
Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable)	System-Wide	FESCo #2883
LXQt image for aarch64	Self-Contained	FESCo #2884
Modernize Live Media	System-Wide	FESCo #2885

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Replace DNF with DNF5	System-Wide	FESCo #2870
Python 3.12	System-Wide	Announced

Fedora Linux 40

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Porting Fedora to Modern C	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.