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 35 will reach end of life on 2022-12-13.

I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in -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

  •  Due to a lack of candidates, the Fedora Council election will be delayed by one week. The Mindshare and FESCo elections will continue as scheduled.

CfPs

ConferenceLocationDateCfP
SCaLE 20xPasadena, CA, US9–12 Marcloses 2 Dec
Config Management CampGhent, BE6–8 Febcloses 4 Dec
#a11yTO CampToronto, ON, CA21 Jancloses 4 Dec
USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and ImplementationBoston, MA, US10–13 Julcloses 6 Dec
ElixirConf EULisbon, PT20–21 Aprcloses 11 Dec
UX ScotlandEdinburgh, GB7–9 Juncloses 12 Dec
FOSDEM: main trackBrussels, BE4–5 Febcloses 15 Dec
NodeJS One AfricaCape Town, ZA8–9 Marcloses 16 Dec
NodeJS One AfricaJohannesburg, ZA13–14 Sepcloses 16 Dec
FOSDEM: Distributions DevroomBrussels, BE5 Febcloses 31 Dec
CypherConMilwaukee, WI, US30–31 Marcloses 31 Dec
JSHeroesCluj-Napoca, RO18–19 Maycloses 31 Dec
USENIX Annual Technical ConferenceBoston, MA, US10–12 Julcloses 5 Jan
Devoxx UKLondon, UK10–12 Maycloses 10 Jan
Scalar ConferenceWarsaw, PL23–24 Marcloses 10 Jan
Hack in ParisParis, FR26–29 Sepcloses 14 Jan
VueConfNew Orleans, LA, US25–26 Maycloses 15 Jan
PyCon ItaliaFlorence, IT25–28 Maycloses 16 Jan
DevConfCape Town & Pretoria, ZA23 & 25 Maycloses 17 Jan
MagnoliaJSJackson, MS, US17–18 Octcloses 31 Jan
Open Source NorthSt. Paul, MN, US24 Maycloses 18 Feb
JSDay IEDublin, IE26 Sepcloses 28 Feb

Help wanted

Meetings & events

Releases

Releaseopen bugs
F353701
F364605
F371848
Rawhide7005

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug IDComponentStatus
2015490initial-setupASSIGNED
2134824kernelASSIGNED
2149632gtk3NEW

Fedora Linux 37

Schedule

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

  • 2022-12-09 — Election voting begins (FESCo and Mindshare)
  • 2022-12-16 — Election voting begins (Council)

Fedora Linux 38

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

ProposalTypeStatus
Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flagsSystem-WideRejected
Ostree Native Container (Phase 2, stable)System-WideFESCo #2883
MobilityPhoshImageSelf-ContainedApproved
Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by macroSystem-WideFESCo #2898
Reproducible builds: Clamp build mtimes to $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCHSystem-WideApproved
Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & KinoiteSelf-ContainedFESCo #2900
Build Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite using rpm-ostree unified core modeSelf-ContainedFESCo #2901
Prevent from building RPM packages providing python3dist(…) = 0Self-ContainedApproved
Remove initial-setup from KDE Spin & KinoiteSelf-ContainedApproved
Remove Guile Support from GDBSelf-ContainedFESCo #2906
LLVM 16System-WideFESCo #2909
Add Fedora Auto Firstboot Services to desktop variantsSystem-WideFESCo #2908
Golang 1.20System-WideAnnounced
Fedora Sway SpinSelf-ContainedAnnounced
libpinyin 2.8Self-ContainedAnnounced
GNU Make version 4.4System-WideAnnounced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

ProposalTypeStatus
Replace DNF with DNF5System-WideFESCo #2870

Contributing

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