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)!

Rawhide is now developing Fedora Linux 39.

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

• I am proposing a change to how release schedule ics files are rendered. Please provide feedback in the issue before 13 February.
• Rawhide kernels are now built with both debug and non-debug variations. Debug builds are now available for aarch64 in addition to x86_64.
• Inactive proven packagers will be removed on or about 22 February.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Newcrafts	Paris, FR	25–26 May	closes 12 Feb
Open Source North	St. Paul, MN, US	24 May	closes 18 Feb
Linux Application Summit	Brno, CZ	21–23 Apr	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
DevConf.CZ	Brno, Czech Republic	16-18 Jun	closes 10 Mar
DevOpsDays Chicago	Chicago, IL, US	9–10 Aug	closes 17 Mar
Akademy	Thessaloniki, GR	15–16 July	closes 30 Mar
Container Days	Hamburg, DE	11–13 Sep	closes 31 Mar
Upstream	virtual	7 Jun	closes 7 Apr
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:
  • 287 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 33 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Submit proposals for projects and mentors for Outreachy by 24 February.
• Participants wanted for the Display/HDR hackfest in Brno, CZ 24–26 April.

Meetings & events

• FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• Program Manager Office Hours — 1400 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F36	4529
F37	3147
F38 (pre-release)	999
Rawhide	6448

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
2015490	initial-setup	POST
2149632	gtk3	CLOSED

Fedora Linux 38

• 530 packages fail to build from source
• 40 packages fail to install

Blockers

Bug	Component	Status	Blocker status
2149246	distribution	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2151495	distribution	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2151497	distribution	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2165433	anaconda	MODIFIED	Proposed(Beta)
2166412	grub2	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2168034	kwin	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2164667	mesa	ASSIGNED	Proposed(Beta)

Schedule

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

• 2023-02-21 — F38 Change completion deadline (100% complete)
• 2023-02-21 — F38 Beta freeze begins

Changes

The table below lists Changes status. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for more information.

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	14
POST	3
MODIFIED	14
ON_QA	26
CLOSED	2

Fedora Linux 39

• 531 packages fail to build from source
• 42 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
Replace DNF with DNF5	System-Wide	Approved
Remove pam_console	System-Wide	Approved
Mass Retire Golang Leaves	Self-Contained	FESCo #2954

Contributing

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