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

• 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
• Join the Creative Freedom Summit, hosted by the Fedora Design Team, online 17–19 January. Participate in #creativefreedom:fedora.im on Matrix or watch the live stream on PeerTube.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
phpday	Verona, IT	18–19 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
WASM IO	Barcelona, ES	23–24 Mar	closes 17 Jan
Container Plumbing Days	virtual	22–23 Mar	closes 23 Jan
MagnoliaJS	Jackson, MS, US	17–18 Oct	closes 31 Jan
jsday	Verona, IT	13–14 Apr	closes 31 Jan
Connectaha	Omaha, NE, US	24 Apr	closes 31 Jan
Open Source Summit North America	Vancouver, BC, CA	10–12 May	closes 5 Feb
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
Berlin Buzzwords	Berlin, DE		closes 19 Feb
JSDay IE	Dublin, IE	26 Sep	closes 28 Feb
Scenic City Summit	Chattanooga, TN, US	2 Jun	closes 1 Mar
Web Weekend Kathmandu	Kathmandu, NP	23–24 Sep	closes 21 Apr

Help wanted

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

Upcoming test days

• Kernel 6.1 Test Week runs through Sunday

Have a test day idea for Fedora Linux 38? The call for test days is open.

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 Council Video Meeting: Websites Revamp — 1500 UTC Wednesday in Bluejeans
• Fedora Social Hour — 1500 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare

Releases

Release	open bugs
F36	4612
F37	2432
Rawhide	7258

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 38

• 595 packages fail to build from source
• 39 packages fail to install

Schedule

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

• 2023-01-17 — Deadline for Self-Contained Changes
• 2023-01-18 — F38 Mass rebuild begins

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 and -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer to default compilation flags	System-Wide	Approved
Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by RPM dependency generator	System-Wide	Approved
GNU Make version 4.4	System-Wide	Approved
Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags	System-Wide	Approved
Restore stricter SSH hostkeys permissions	System-Wide	Approved
Upgrade ImageMagick to version 7	Self-Contained	Approved
Fedora Budgie Spin	Self-Contained	Approved
Use mdadm for BIOS RAID Support in Anaconda	Self-Contained	Approved
Pyramid 2.0	Self-Contained	FESCo #2924
Xfce 4.18	Self-Contained	FESCo #2925
Unified Kernel Support Phase 1	System-Wide	FESCo #2926
X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients	System-Wide	FESCo #2927
Shorter Shutdown Timer	System-Wide	FESCo #2928
Rpmautospec by Default	System-Wide	Announced
Noto Fonts For More Languages	System-Wide	Announced
GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.0, binutils 2.39, glibc 2.37, gdb 12.1)	System-Wide	Announced
FPC repackaging	Self-Contained	Announced
TeXLive2022	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	Approved

Contributing

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