Fedora Community Blog – The Community Blog provides a single source for members of the community to share important news, updates, and information about Fedora with others in the Project community.

This is an generic banner that goes with Weekly Updates

GSoC 2020 nmstate project update for June

July 1, 2020 / sudhan97 / 0 Comments

This blog is about my experience working in nmstate project and first month in GSoC coding period. I was able to start working on implementing the varlink support mid of community bonding period. This was very helpful because I was able to identify some issues in the python varlink package that was not mentioned in documentation and I had to spend more time finding the cause of the issue. There have been minor changes to proposed code structure and project timeline after the feedback from the community members. In the beginning it was difficult to identify syntax errors in varlink interface definitions. This has been slow progress because of new issues and following are the tasks I have completed so far.

GSoC Progress Report: Dashboard for Packit

June 30, 2020 / Anchit / 0 Comments

About Me

Hi, I am Anchit, a 19 y.o. from Chandigarh, India. I love programming, self-hosting, gaming, reading comic books, and watching comic-book based movies/tv.

The first version of Fedora I tried was 21 when I came across it during my distro-hopping spree. I used it for a couple of months and then moved on to other distros. I came back to Fedora in 2017 after a couple of people on Telegram recommended it and have been using it ever since. A big reason why I stuck with Fedora this time is the community. Shout out to @fedora on Telegram. They’re nice, wholesome and helpful. They also got me into self-hosting and basic sys-admin stuff.

Fedora Program Manager weekly report on Fedora Project development and progress

Fedora program update: 2020-26

June 26, 2020 / Ben Cotton / 0 Comments

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

Fedora Magazine trying Discourse

June 25, 2020 / Adam Šamalík / 0 Comments

Starting today, Thursday 25 June 2020, the Fedora Magazine community is trying Fedora Discussion — a web forum using Discourse — as the primary communication mechanism.

The forum replaces two previously used communication channels:

The Fedora Magazine mailing list used for general discussion
The Pagure issue tracker used for submitting and discussion new article proposals

Having both of these merged into a single channel makes it easier for community members to see what is going on and join the discussion.

MBBox – Module Building in a Box

June 23, 2020 / zlopez / 0 Comments

MBBox is a way to deploy everything you need to build modules in Fedora/CentOS ecosystems. It contains Koji (koji-hub, koji-builder, kojira) and MBS (mbs-frontend and mbs-backend). This should be enough to start building your own modules. It is now one of the initiatives being worked on by the CPE team.

Fedora program update: 2020-25

June 19, 2020 / Ben Cotton / 0 Comments

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

Contribute at the Fedora Test Week for Kernel 5.7

June 19, 2020 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.7. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, June 22, 2020 through Monday, June 29, 2020. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details.

Fedora Project and Outreachy internship program for underrepresented groups in open source

Outreachy with Fedora’s Bodhi Project

June 18, 2020 / karmadolkar / 0 Comments

Here, I express my hitherto educative, fun, and exciting experience as an Outreachy intern.

About the Project

The aim of the project is to provide a /graphql endpoint to Bodhi, Fedora’s update gating system. This would allow users to query through Bodhi’s resources using GraphQL.

Fedora program update: 2020-24

June 12, 2020 / Ben Cotton / 0 Comments

Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora this week. Congratulations to the winners of the Fedora 32 elections. 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

Fedora 26 Supplementary Wallpapers: Vote now!

Fedora 32 elections results

June 12, 2020 / Ben Cotton / 0 Comments

The Fedora 32 election cycle has concluded. Here are the results for each election. Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you all candidates for running in this election!

GSoC 2020 nmstate project update for June

GSoC Progress Report: Dashboard for Packit

About Me

Fedora program update: 2020-26

Fedora Magazine trying Discourse

MBBox – Module Building in a Box

Fedora program update: 2020-25

Announcements

Help wanted

Prioritized Bugs

Upcoming meetings

Releases

Fedora 33

Schedule

Changes

Fedora 34

Changes

CPE update

Contribute at the Fedora Test Week for Kernel 5.7

Outreachy with Fedora’s Bodhi Project

About the Project

Fedora program update: 2020-24

Fedora 32 elections results

Code of Conduct

Recent Posts

Recent Comments