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 Beta freeze is in place. The current F38 Beta target is the early target date (2023-03-14).

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

• Inactive packagers will be removed after the F38 release.
• Fedora Discussion now supports saved searches.
• API keys in Red Hat Bugzilla are now set to expire after one year and will be disabled when they’ve been unused for 30 days.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
JSDay IE	Dublin, IE	26 Sep	closes 28 Feb
Scenic City Summit	Chattanooga, TN, US	2 Jun	closes 1 Mar
SREcon Asia/Pacific	Singapore	14–16 Jun	closes 2 Mar
DevConf.CZ	Brno, Czech Republic	16-18 Jun	closes 10 Mar
DevOpsDays Chicago	Chicago, IL, US	9–10 Aug	closes 17 Mar
FOSSY call for tracks	Portland, OR, US	13–16 Jul	closes 19 Mar
Akademy	Thessaloniki, GR	15–16 July	closes 30 Mar
Container Days	Hamburg, DE	11–13 Sep	closes 31 Mar
DevConf US	Boston, MA, US	16–18 Aug	closes 3 Apr
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:
  • 267 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 32 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.
• Please fill out the F37 retrospective survey by 9 March.

Meetings & events

• Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• SPDX Change office hours — 1600 UTC Tuesday in Google Meet (dial-in numbers available)
• 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	4521
F37	3360
F38 (pre-release)	991
Rawhide	6827

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

Fedora Linux 38

• 824 packages fail to build from source
• 60 packages fail to install

Blockers

Bug	Component	Status	Blocker status
2149246	distribution	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Beta)
2168034	kwin	ON_QA	Accepted(Beta)
2172342	gdb	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2172406	pkgconf	ON_QA	Proposed(Beta)

Schedule

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

• 2023-03-14 — F38 Beta early target release date
• 2023-03-21 — F38 Beta target release date #1
• 2023-04-04 — Final freeze begins

Changes

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

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	3
MODIFIED	2
ON_QA	44
CLOSED	2

Fedora Linux 39

• 517 packages fail to build from source
• 84 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
Modernize Thread Building Blocks for Fedora 39	System-Wide	FESCo #2959
MinGW toolchain update	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.