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

• Inactive packagers will be removed after the F38 release.
• The Fedora Council is considering a policy to create a Code of Conduct Committee.
• Check your meetings for upcoming summer time changes.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
The Perl and Raku Conference	Toronto, ON, CA	11–13 Jul	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
TechBash	Mount Pocono, PA, US	7–10 Nov	closes 11 Apr
Web Weekend Kathmandu	Kathmandu, NP	23–24 Sep	closes 21 Apr
DevRelCon London	London, UK	7–8 Sep	closes 21 Apr
Cincy Deliver	Cincinnati, OH, US	28 Jul	closes 30 Apr
ShipIt Con	Dublin, IE	1 Sep	closes 1 May
React Norway	Larvik, NO	16 Jun	closes 15 May
Front Conference	Zurich, CH	31 Aug–1 Sep	closes 31 May
Inclusive Design 24	virtual	21 Sep	closes 4 Jun

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 278 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 31 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

Meetings & events

• Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• Program Manager Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1800 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 2000 UTC Thursday in #fedora-mindshare

Releases

Release	open bugs
F36	4507
F37	3744
F38 (pre-release)	1100
Rawhide	7018

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

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

Blockers

Bug	Component	Status	Blocker status
2171350	fcoe-utils	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2177992	gnome-calendar	VERIFIED	Accepted (Final)
2177995	gnome-maps	VERIFIED	Accepted (Final)
2177853	gnome-shell	POST	Accepted (Final)
2173891	gtk4	VERIFIED	Accepted (Final)
2176782	kernel	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2175809	mutter	VERIFIED	Accepted (Final)
2177982	mutter	VERIFIED	Accepted (Final)
2176766	nautilus	VERIFIED	Accepted (Final)
2172956	openssh	POST	Accepted (Final)
2174563	sddm	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2113005	shim	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2178172	f38-backgrounds	VERIFIED	Proposed (Final)
2177153	gnome-abrt	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2177993	gnome-calendar	NEW	Proposed (Final)
2156108	ibus	MODIFIED	Proposed (Final)
2178167	mutter	POST	Proposed (Final)
2178971	xdg-desktop-portal-kde	NEW	Proposed (Final)

Schedule

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

• 2023-04-04 — Final freeze begins
• 2023-04-18 — Final release early target date

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

• 504 packages fail to build from source
• 53 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
FontAwesome6	Self-Contained	FESCo #2968
SPDX License Phase 2	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.