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 reached end of life on Tuesday.

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

Announcements

• Voting in the elections is open through 2359 UTC on 22 December.
• A multi-hour infrastructure outage is planned for 10 January, beginning at 1900 UTC.
• You can now add your Fediverse URL to your Fedora wiki profile.
• Fedora is now officially on the Fediverse

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
DevRelCon	Yokohama, JP	10–11 Mar	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
Scalar Conference	Warsaw, PL	23–24 Mar	closes 10 Jan
Hack in Paris	Paris, FR	26–29 Sep	closes 14 Jan
VueConf	New Orleans, LA, US	25–26 May	closes 15 Jan
JS Day Canarias	Tenerife, ES	25–28 May	closes 15 Jan
PyCon Italia	Florence, IT	25–28 May	closes 16 Jan
DevConf	Cape Town & Pretoria, ZA	23 & 25 May	closes 17 Jan
MagnoliaJS	Jackson, MS, US	17–18 Oct	closes 31 Jan
Connectaha	Omaha, NE, US	24 Apr	closes 31 Jan
Write The Docs	Portland, OR, US	7–9 May	closes 6 Feb
Newcrafts	Paris, FR	25–26 May	closes 12 Feb
Open Source North	St. Paul, MN, US	24 May	closes 18 Feb
JSDay IE	Dublin, IE	26 Sep	closes 28 Feb

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 287 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 38 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• A new Flatpak SIG is forming.

Meetings & events

• Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
• FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• FPgM Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1

Releases

Release	open bugs
F36	4612
F37	1977
Rawhide	7014

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
2015490	initial-setup	ASSIGNED
2149632	gtk3	NEW

Fedora Linux 37

Schedule

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

• 2022-12-22 — Election voting ends

Fedora Linux 38

• 606 packages fail to build from source
• 33 packages fail to install

Schedule

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

• 2022-12-21 — Deadline for Changes requiring infrastructure changes
• 2022-12-27 — Deadline for System-Wide Changes and Changes requiring a mass rebuild
• 2023-01-17 — Deadline for Self-Contained Changes

Changes

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

Proposal	Type	Status
Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by RPM dependency generator	System-Wide	FESCo #2898
Golang 1.20	System-Wide	FESCo #2913
Fedora Sway Spin	Self-Contained	FESCo #2914
libpinyin 2.8	Self-Contained	FESCo #2915
GNU Make version 4.4	System-Wide	FESCo #2916
Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags	System-Wide	FESCo #2917
Restore stricter SSH hostkeys permissions	System-Wide	Announced
Upgrade ImageMagick to version 7	Self-Contained	Announced
Fedora Budgie Spin	Self-Contained	Announced
Use mdadm for BIOS RAID Support in Anaconda	Self-Contained	Announced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Replace DNF with DNF5	System-Wide	FESCo #2870
Boost 1.81 upgrade	System-Wide	FESCo #2918

Contributing

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