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.
• Check your meetings for upcoming summer time changes.
• Save 1–5 August for Flock to Fedora in Cork, IE.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference	Portland, OR, US and virtual	9–11 Oct	closes 16 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
Indy.Code()	Indianapolis, IN, US	10–11 Aug	closes 30 Apr
FOSS Security Campus	Berlin, DE	26–29 Sep	closes 14 May
React Norway	Larvik, NO	16 Jun	closes 15 May
Write The Docs Atlantic	virtual	10–12 Sep	closes 15 May
Front Conference	Zurich, CH	31 Aug–1 Sep	closes 31 May
Inclusive Design 24	virtual	21 Sep	closes 4 Jun
NodeConf EU	Kilkenny, IE	6–8 Nov	closes 28 Jun

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 294 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 30 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

Upcoming test days

• 3–7 April — IoT test week

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	4502
F37	3950
F38 (pre-release)	1158
Rawhide	6892

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

• 710 packages fail to build from source
• 31 packages fail to install

Blockers

Bug	Component	Status	Blocker status
2171350	kernel	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2179591	plasma-workspace	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2113005	shim	NEW	Accepted (Final)
2177153	abrt	VERIFIED	Proposed (Final)
2183034	podman	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

• 499 packages fail to build from source
• 47 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
SPDX License Phase 2	System-Wide	FESCo #2972
EC2 AMIs default to the gp3 EBS volume type	Self-Contained	FESCo #2974
Register EC2 Cloud Images with IMDSv2-only AMI flag	Self-Contained	FESCo #2975
Changes of defaults in createrepo_c-1.0.0	System-Wide	FESCo #2976
Register EC2 Cloud Images with uefi-preferred AMI flag	Self-Contained	Announced
RPM 4.19	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.