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)!

The F38 mass rebuild is underway.

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

• Session recordings from the Creative Freedom Summit, hosted by the Fedora Design Team are now available.
• Long-term fails-to-build-from-source packages will be retired from F38 and Rawhide approximately 8 February.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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	18–20 Jun	closes 19 Feb
JSDay IE	Dublin, IE	26 Sep	closes 28 Feb
Scenic City Summit	Chattanooga, TN, US	2 Jun	closes 1 Mar
DevOpsDays Chicago	Chicago, IL, US	9–10 Aug	closes 17 Mar
openSUSE Conference 2023	Nürnberg, DE	26–28 May	closes 9 Apr
Web Weekend Kathmandu	Kathmandu, NP	23–24 Sep	closes 21 Apr

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 275 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 34 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• The fedora-review developers are looking for help
• Submit GNOME project proposals for Outreachy by 7 February.
• The Anaconda team needs your feedback on the storage UI
• The new WASM SIG is looking for members interested in WebAssembly.

Upcoming test days

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 Social Hour — 1500 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare

Releases

Release	open bugs
F36	4580
F37	2667
Rawhide	7343

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

• 569 packages fail to build from source
• 54 packages fail to install

Schedule

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

• 2023-02-07 — F38 branches from Rawhide
• 2023-02-07 — F38 Change completion deadline (testable)
• 2023-02-21 — F38 Change completion deadline (100% complete)

Changes

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

Proposal	Type	Status
Shorter Shutdown Timer	System-Wide	Approved
Rpmautospec by Default	System-Wide	Approved
Noto Fonts For More Languages	System-Wide	Approved
GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.0, binutils 2.39, glibc 2.37, gdb 12.1)	System-Wide	Approved
FPC repackaging	Self-Contained	Approved
TeXLive2022	Self-Contained	FESCo #2935
Noto CJK Variable Fonts	Self-Contained	FESCo #2938
Unfiltered Flathub	System-Wide	FESCo #2939
IPP-USB as a weak dependency of CUPS and sane-airscan	Self-Contained	FESCo #2942
cups-filters 2.0b	Self-Contained	Announced
IoT Simplified Installer	Self-Contained	Announced

Fedora Linux 39

Changes

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

Proposal	Type	Status
Replace DNF with DNF5	System-Wide	FESCo #2870
Remove pam_console	System-Wide	Announced

Contributing

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