Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. Please update the Release Readiness page with your team’s status.

I have weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

• Announcements
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

Announcements

• Fedora 30 buildroots in COPR are now disabled.

Help wanted

• 166 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer
• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers

Upcoming test days

• 8 September — i18n test day

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Status	Component
1840663	RELEASE_PENDING	mediawriter

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Prioritized bugs meeting — 1500 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• CPE Product Owner office hours — 1300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 1400 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on element.io

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

• 2020-08-25 Change complete (100% code complete) deadline
• 2020-08-25 Beta freeze begins

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
1857043	tomcat	MODIFIED	Accepted(Beta)
1860616	libreport	POST	Accepted(Beta)
1866570	resteasy	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1861700	sddm	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1862686	selinux-policy	POST	Accepted(Beta)
1827915	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1849430	distribution	ASSIGNED	Accepted(Final)
1849431	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1869892	distribution	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
1863041	systemd	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1829079	gdm	MODIFIED	Accepted(Final)

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	7
MODIFIED	19
ON_QA	23
CLOSED	8

Proposal	Type	Status
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
PostgreSQL 13	Self-Contained	Rejected
Restart services at end of rpm transaction	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
OpenLDAP without Non-threaded Libraries	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
Patches in Forge macros – Auto macros – Detached rpm changelogs	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
Use update-alternatives for /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++	System-Wide	Deferred to F34
Ship BerkleyDB backend as a module	Self-Contained	Deferred to F34

Fedora 34

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
RPM-level auto release and changelog bumping	System-Wide	FESCo #2441
Policy for Modules in Fedora and Fedora ELN	Self-Contained	FESCo #2452

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.

CPE update

• Datacenter move
  • Communishift will remain offline until further notice
  • The infrastructure moves is nearly complete. A list of known issues is available.
• AAA replacement
  • See the GitHub kanban board for more information
• See the CPE weekly for more information

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• Announcements
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• Upcoming meetings
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• CPE update

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Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. I have weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

• Announcements
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• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

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Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. I have weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.

• Announcements
• Help wanted
• Upcoming meetings
• Releases
• CPE update

Announcements

• Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
• The GNOME Community Engagement Challenge is accepting applications through 1 July.
• Communishift will be down until further notice.
• Lenovo will soon be shipping laptops with Fedora Workstation pre-installed.
• The Fedora Council is considering a proposal on the process of withdrawing sponsorship from events.
• The Fedora 32 election results are now available.
• FESCo meetings have moved to 1400 UTC Wednesdays.

Help wanted

• 538 package review requests are awaiting a reviewer

Prioritized Bugs

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

Bug ID	Status	Component
1840663	NEW	mediawriter

Upcoming meetings

• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• CPE Product Owner office hours 1300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Fedora Social Hour — 2300 UTC Thursday in #fedora-social on riot.im

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

• 2020-06-24: Proposal deadline for Changes requiring infrastructure changes
• 2020-06-30: Proposal deadline for Changes requiring mass rebuild
• 2020-06-30: Proposal deadline for System-Wide Changes
• 2020-07-21: Proposal deadline for Self-Contained Changes
• 2020-07-22: Mass rebuild begins
• 2020-07-22: Spins keepalive deadline

The full schedule is available on Fedorapeople.

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
Node.js 14.x by default	System-Wide	FESCo #2391
Aarch64 Pointer Authentication & Branch Target Enablement	System-Wide	Accepted
No more automagic Python bytecompilation phase 3	Self-Contained	Accepted
Drop mod_php	Self-Contained	Accepted
swap on zram	System-Wide	FESCo #2408
CompilerPolicy Change	System-Wide	FESCo #2409
CMake to do out-of-source builds	System-Wide	Announced
Fedora-Retired-Packages	Announced
Distribute .repo files for modular repositories from a separate package	Self-Contained	Announced
Default animated background for Fedora Workstation	Self-Contained	Announced
LXQt 0.15.0	Self-Contained	Announced
NSS dbm support removal	Self-Contained	Announced
LLVM 11	System-Wide	Announced
Use %make_build and %make_install macros	System-Wide	Announced
Zanata Removal	System-Wide	Announced

Fedora 34

Changes

Proposal	Type	Status
NSS CK_GCM_PARAMS change	System-Wide	FESCo #2400

Changes approved, rejected, or withdrawn will be removed from this table the next week. See the ChangeSet page for a full list of approved changes.

CPE update

• Datacenter move
  • Communishift will remain offline until further notice
  • A full list of services impacted by the infrastructure moves is available
• AAA replacement
  • See the GitHub kanban board for more information