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)!

Fedora Linux 37 will be released on Tuesday!

I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

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

Announcements

• Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
DEVNEXUS	Atlanta, GA, US	4–6 Apr	closes 15 Nov
SREcon Americas	Santa Clara, CA, US	21–23 Mar	closes 1 Dec
SCaLE 20x	Pasadena, CA, US	9–12 Mar	closes 2 Dec
Config Management Camp	Ghent, BE	6–8 Feb	closes 4 Dec
#a11yTO Camp	Toronto, ON, CA	21 Jan	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
JSHeroes	Cluj-Napoca, RO	18–19 May	closes 31 Dec
USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Boston, MA, US	10–12 Jul	closes 5 Jan
Devoxx UK	London, UK	10–12 May	closes 10 Jan
Hack in Paris	Paris, FR	26–29 Sep	closes 14 Jan
DevConf	Cape Town & Pretoria, ZA	23 & 25 May	closes 17 Jan
MagnoliaJS	Jackson, MS, US	17–18 Oct	closes 31 Jan
JSDay IE	Dublin, IE	26 Sep	closes 28 Feb

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 282 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 39 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

• FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 1500 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare

Releases

Release	open bugs
F35	3973
F36	4529
F37 (beta)	1316
Rawhide	6775

Prioritized Bugs

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

Fedora Linux 37

• 669 packages fail to build from source
• 26 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)
• 2022-11-16 — Election nominations open

Fedora Linux 38

• 682 packages fail to build from source
• 32 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
Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable)	System-Wide	FESCo #2883
Ruby 3.2	System-Wide	FESCo #2893
MobilityPhoshImage	Self-Contained	Announced
Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by macro	System-Wide	Announced
Reproducible builds: Clamp build mtimes to $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH	System-Wide	Announced
Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite	Self-Contained	Announced
Build Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite using rpm-ostree unified core mode	Self-Contained	Announced

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	Approved

Fedora Linux 40

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Porting Fedora to Modern C	System-Wide	Approved

Contributing

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