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 was released on Tuesday! Fedora Linux 35 will reach end of life on 2022-12-13.
Announcements
- Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.
- F37 election nominations are now 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 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 |
| FOSDEM: main track | Brussels, BE | 4–5 Feb | closes 15 Dec |
| FOSDEM: Distributions Devroom | Brussels, BE | 5 Feb | closes 31 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:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
- Updates to deprecated Fedora Developer pages are needed.
- moby-engine (Docker) package needs maintainers
Meetings & events
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- Council meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F35 | 3980 |
| F36 | 4572 |
| F37 | 1408 |
| Rawhide | 6828 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
Fedora Linux 37
- 662 packages fail to build from source
- 34 packages fail to install
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2022-11-16 — Election nominations open
- 2022-11-30 — Election nominations close
- 2022-12-09 — Electoin voting begins
Fedora Linux 38
- 675 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 |
| Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable) | System-Wide | FESCo #2883 |
| Ruby 3.2 | System-Wide | Approved |
| MobilityPhoshImage | Self-Contained | FESCo #2896 |
| Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by macro | System-Wide | FESCo #2898 |
| Reproducible builds: Clamp build mtimes to $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH | System-Wide | FESCo #2899 |
| Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite | Self-Contained | FESCo #2900 |
| Build Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite using rpm-ostree unified core mode | Self-Contained | FESCo #2901 |
| Prevent from building RPM packages providing python3dist(…) = 0 | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Remove initial-setup from KDE Spin & Kinoite | Self-Contained | Announced |
| Remove Guile Support from GDB | Self-Contained | Announced |
Fedora Linux 39
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Replace DNF with DNF5 | System-Wide | FESCo #2870 |
Contributing
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