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.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
All Things Open	Raleigh, NC, US	15–17 Oct	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:
  • 264 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 31 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• Participants wanted for the Display/HDR hackfest in Brno, CZ 24–26 April.
• Please fill out the F37 retrospective survey by 9 March.

Upcoming test days

• 5–12 March — Kernel 6.2 Test Week
• 6–8 March — GNOME 44 Desktop and Core Apps
• 9–10 March — GNOME 44 Apps

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
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Counci Video Meeting: Web & Apps community survey results — 1500 UTC Wednesday
• Fedora Social Hour — 1500 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• F38 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare

Releases

Release	open bugs
F36	4530
F37	3497
F38 (pre-release)	996
Rawhide	6913

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
2015490	initial-setup	ON_QA

Fedora Linux 38

• 809 packages fail to build from source
• 57 packages fail to install

Blockers

Bug	Component	Status	Blocker status
2149246	distribution	POST	Accepted(Beta)
2170878	crypto-policies	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
2174753	gnome-session	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2175155	gnupg2	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2175244	initial-setup	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2156691	kernel	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2173985	mutter	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2174563	sddm	NEW	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	1
ON_QA	45
CLOSED	2

Fedora Linux 39

• 514 packages fail to build from source
• 73 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	FESCo #2962

Contributing

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