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)!

Fedora Linux 38 will be released on Tuesday — the early target date!

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.
• Save 1–5 August for Flock to Fedora in Cork, IE.
• The Fedora Council is considering a proposal to remove the full/auxiliary member distinction.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
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
RubyConf Thailand	Bangkok, TH	6–7 Oct	closes 4 Jun
NodeConf EU	Kilkenny, IE	6–8 Nov	closes 28 Jun

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 305 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 33 need a sponsor
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

Meetings & events

• 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	4478
F37	4093
F38 (pre-release)	1224
Rawhide	6986

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Component	Status
2015490	initial-setup	ASSIGNED

Fedora Linux 38

Schedule

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

• 2023-04-18 — Final release early target date
• 2023-04-19 — Election nominations begin

Fedora Linux 39

• 499 packages fail to build from source
• 44 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
Changes of defaults in createrepo_c-1.0.0	System-Wide	Approved
Register EC2 Cloud Images with uefi-preferred AMI flag	Self-Contained	Approved
RPM 4.19	System-Wide	FESCo #2980

Contributing

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