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amoloney @[email protected] · 2024-04-05 · 22:16 UTC

Hello folks! I’m coming to you live from a very wet and windy Ireland. April showers is certainly a thing, but this kind of rain is even giving the typical Irish weather a run for its money! 😀 I hope you all have had a good (and drier) week so far and enjoy your weekend, and if you would like some weekend reading, weekend bug fixing, or even a weekend proposal writing session, read on for the links and information you need to do just that 🙂

Flock to Fedora

The call for papers for our annual contributor conference, Flock to Fedora, is now open until April 21st. Check out the cfp page for details on the tracks and themes of this years conference, plus information on travel subsidies and how to contact event staff if you need help.

Fedora Linux 40

Important Dates

Currently in Final Freeze
Thursday, April 11th @ 1700 UTC – Fedora Linux 40 Go/No-Go Meeting
Tuesday, April 16th – Current Release Target Date (this will depend on the outcome of the Go/No-Go meeting)

Help Wanted

There are a number of blocker bugs open against F40 at the moment, both proposed and accepted. If you could spare some time to visit the blocker bugs app and reproduce some of the bugs to validate if they are blocking bugs or not, and/or even propose a fix for a bug listed, that would be hugely appreciated. A summary of the current F40 bugs can be found on this email with links to each too.

Fedora Linux 41

Change proposals are welcome for F41, and even F42 (and F43 if you’re that prepared!). The first deadline is 19th June if your change requires any infrastructure changes, and 26th June if it is a system-wide change. Self-contained changes may be submitted until 16th July. Those dates might seem far off, but please do have your changes in Rawhide as early as possible as this impacts a lot of the build and release folks (QA, rel-eng, etc) so getting the work proposed, approved and into development as early as possible is strongly recommended. Below is a list of changes proposed, awaiting FESCo decision and already accepted for F41.

Proposed

Awaiting FESCo Decision

Accepted F41

Hot Topics

An update on the Git Forge Evaluation has been published by the Fedora Council. Please have a read on discussion.fpo or on the community blog.

The CommOps Team is rebooting! Read about the newly (re)formed team on their blog post and find out how to get involved and join the team.

Help Wanted

Lots of Test Days! Check them out on the QA calendar in fedocal for component-specific days. Help is always greatly appreciated.We also have some packages needing some new maintainers and others needing reviews. See below links to adopt and review packages!

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ops-architect-weekly-5/

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amoloney @[email protected] · 2024-03-25 · 16:33 UTC

Hi folks, welcome to the weekly from your Fedora operations architect. This is an exciting week in the project as our Fedora Linux 40 Beta goes live tomorrow! Have a read on for more information.

Fedora Linux 40

Beta is GO!

Tomorrow, March 26th, our Fedora Linux 40 Beta will release, and I cannot thank our wonderful community enough for all the hard work they have been putting in the last few months to create it. When it lands, testing how the release behaves and filing bugs and posting fixes would be hugely appreciated as our Beta is what we will polish and refine for our official final release in a few weeks. You can learn how to and where to file a bug on our docs page.

Reminder: Final Freeze is due to start in one week – 2nd April 2024. Please try to prioritize F40 Beta testing and fixes this week in order to get any fixes submitted and applied before we enter the freeze period. This really helps our QA and release engineering teams on the far side of the freeze build and test our final release candidate compose(s) in good time to find any pesky bugs.

Save the Dates!

Flock to Fedora is returning this year from August 7th – 10th in Rochester, New York, USA and the call for proposals has officially opened! The deadline is April 21st and check out the blog post for more details on tracks, themes and venue details.Open Source Summit Europe has a call for proposals currently open – deadline is April 30th and the conference is set for September 14th – 18th in Vienna, Austria.The deadline for devconf.cz has now closed. Their schedule will be live towards the end of April, and the conference itself will take place from Thursday 13th – Saturday 15th June. The event is free to attend once you register for tickets, so keep an eye on their website for when registration becomes live.

Fedora Linux 41 Release

Fedora Linux 41 Changes

Announced Changes

Accepted Changes

Help Wanted

Lots of Test Days! Check them out on the QA calendar in fedocal for component-specific days. Help is always greatly appreciated.We also have some packages needing some new maintainers and others needing reviews. See below links to adopt and review packages!

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ops-architect-weekly-4/

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amoloney @[email protected] · 2024-03-19 · 23:29 UTC

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! I hope you all had a great weekend and if you celebrate with us Irish, you enjoyed some St Patricks Day celebrations ☘️ This weeks report is a little late coming to you, I promise its not because of a pub-related hangover…entirely…but you will now get to enjoy two reports this week instead, so you must have the luck of the Irish 😉 Read on for important information about our release and upcoming events.

Save the Dates!

Flock to Fedora is returning this year from August 7th – 10th in Rochester, New York, USA and the call for proposals has officially opened! The deadline is April 21st and check out the blog post for more details on tracks, themes and venue details.

Open Source Summit Europe has a call for proposals currently open – deadline is April 30th and the conference is set for September 14th – 18th in Vienna, Austria.

The deadline for devconf.cz has now closed. Their schedule will be live towards the end of April, and the conference itself will take place from Thursday 13th – Saturday 15th June. The event is free to attend once you register for tickets, so keep an eye on their website for when registration becomes live.

Fedora Linux 40 Release

Beta Go/No-Go Meeting

The Fedora Linux 40 Beta release is targeting Tuesday 26th March. There is a Go/No-Go meeting scheduled for Thursday 21st March to determine if we have a suitable release candidate or not.

For more information on the Go/No-Go meetings you can visit the wiki page, and for current release targets and other key milestone dates for F40, please refer to the release schedule.

Beta Blockers

There are a few beta blocker bugs active right now. If you can spare some time to try to reproduce the bug to verify it is a bug, and/or even try to find a fix, it would be greatly appreciated. A summary report has gone out to the devel-list this week, and you can also find all blocker bugs, both proposed and accepted, in the blockerbugs app.

Fedora Linux 41 Release

Fedora Linux 41 Changes

Announced Changes

Changes Awaiting FESCo Votes

Help Wanted

Lots of Test Days! Check them out on the QA calendar in fedocal for component-specific days. Help is always greatly appreciated.

We also have some packages needing some new maintainers and others needing reviews. See below links to adopt and review packages!

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ops-architect-weekly-19th-march/

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Fedora Community Blog @[email protected] · 2024-03-19 · 08:00 UTC

Apply now for the Flock to Fedora 2024 Call for Proposals (CfP) at cfp.fedoraproject.org. This year, Flock is using Pretalx as our CfP system. If you submitted a proposal to DevConf CZ this year, it will feel familiar. The submission deadline for the Flock 2024 CfP is Sunday, April 21st, 2024.

What are Flock 2024 CfP reviewers looking for?

Flock 2024 will continue to have three tracks like last year, and we are also introducing themes as optional descriptions for proposals. These tracks and themes help the Flock 2024 CfP reviewers select diverse programming for the conference schedule.

Flock 2024 tracks

Main Track
The usual main track of Flock. Everything and anything to do with the Fedora contributor community. Presentations, talks, workshops, and more.

Tip: At Flock, interactive sessions that include attendee participation receive extra preference over traditional lecture-style talks.

CentOS and Friends
A dedicated track for the CentOS community and other downstream friends. This focuses more to an Enterprise Linux audience, including topics about EPEL.

Fedora Mentor Summit
(Saturday, August 10th) Half-day event focused on mentoring best practices. Mentor Summit programming focuses on workshops and sessions to promote mentorship best practices and to connect mentors and mentees across the Fedora community.

Flock 2024 themes

New this year, the Flock reviewer committee is introducing themes for submitters to choose from. These themes tie into focus areas of the Fedora Strategy 2028. The strategy was co-created with the community on Fedora Discussion and we are excited to share an overview and first comprehensive look at the Fedora Strategy 2028 this year.

When submitting, you’ll be asked to associate your proposal with one or more of these themes:

Accessibility (a11y): Fedora websites and docs use the current best-practices for a11y. Fedora Linux Editions use the best-available open source a11y tech. Our project tooling follows best a11y practices.
Reaching the World: Fedora Linux is available pre-installed on more systems from more vendors. Fedora Linux is widely available in cloud providers and CI services. Fedora maintains a strong network of thriving local communities around the world.
Community Sustainability: Everyone in Fedora can have a mentor, and everyone in Fedora can be a mentor. Modernize our communications tooling.
Technology Innovation and Leadership: Fedora is a popular source for containers and Flatpaks. Immutable variants are the majority of Fedora Linux in use. We integrate programming language stack ecosystems.
Editions, Spins, and Interests: Each Edition has a story for each release. It’s trivial to create and maintain a new Fedora Spin or Remix. More (active) SIGs, fewer images.
Ecosystem Connections: Better collaborative workflow with CentOS Stream. Get people working on downstreams directly involved in Fedora as an upstream. Collaborate on tooling, practices, and offerings with peer distros and upstream projects.

Associating your proposal with these themes will help reviewers understand how your session fits into the broader conference topics. If you do not see your work perfectly represented here, don’t be discouraged.

About the Flock 2024 venue

Flock is the Fedora Project’s annual contributor conference, bringing together our global community. The conference provides a venue for face-to-face meetings and conversations. It is also a place to celebrate our community. This year, Flock will be held from Wednesday, August 7th to Saturday, August 10th at the Hyatt Regency Rochester in Rochester, New York.

See the original Flock 2024 announcement and the Flock 2024 website for more details about the venue and the forthcoming hotel reservation block.

Submitting to the Flock 2024 CfP

We are using a new CfP system called Pretalx this year. Visit the Flock 2024 CfP site to create an account and submit. Choose the Flock to Fedora 2024 event in order to make an account. The first reviewing round begins on Sunday, April 21st, so submit early!

We look forward to seeing your submissions for Flock 2024. Reply with comments to this post if you have any questions about the Flock 2024 CfP. We hope to see you in Rochester this August!

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-2024-cfp-until-april-21st/

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amoloney @[email protected] · 2024-01-28 · 21:58 UTC

Happy new year everyone! The Fedora Ops Architect weekly has resumed after a little downtime post the holiday period. I hope you all have had a pleasant January and the year is off to a good start. Below are a few items that you might find interesting happening around the project space right now, and I look forward to being able to bring a more diverse spread of information on various activities in Fedora in weeks to come!

Upcoming Travel & Events

Some of you maybe travelling to CentOS Connect (Feb 1st & 2nd) & FOSDEM (Feb 3rd & 4th) this year – lucky you! I will be too and I am looking forward to seeing folks there so come say hi 🙂 However, this comes with the possibility that replies to messages and service requests might be a little slower with people being away from their computer, so please do be patient and as always, for anything in crisis, (ie a service is causing an outage that is infrastructure related), please check the status page, open a ticket in the infra repo and check in on the #fedora matrix channel.

The deadline for devconf.cz call for proposals is also fast approaching, March 3rd 2024, so make sure you get your talks in by this date for consideration!

Fedora Linux 40 Release

Mass Rebuild Finish Delayed

The mass rebuild finish date has been extended by one week to allow for side-tags to be merged and bugs that have emerged during the mass rebuild to be resolved, amongst other tasks, to ensure the build is done well. Right now, the targeted finish date is February 20th. All tasks from the mass rebuild start date up until and including the Beta Freeze have been extended by one week. Please check the release schedule for up to date milestone dates, and report any issues in the schedule repository.

Spins/Labs Keepalive Request

As per a requirement made by FESCo, if you are a maintainer or work in a spin or lab, you must confirm that this is to continue to be built for Fedora Linux 40. A number of tickets have been created in the schedule repo and labeled as spins/keepalive request, please confirm your keepalive request for your respective spin or lab. If you maintain a spin or lab, and did not receive a ticket to confirm, please feel free to create an issue in the repo and tag me for awareness.

Fedora Linux 40 Changes

All deadlines have now passed for changes to be proposed for Fedora Linux 40. If you are an owner of an approved chnage, please be aware that your change must be in a ‘Testable‘ state by 6th Feb 2024. All approved changes to date can be found on the Change Set page. Below are a list of changes that are currently awaiting a decision from FESCo:

Hot Topics

Join the conversation about planning for src.fedoraproject.org on discourse. I would love to see this topic getting his topic needs more opinions and ideas on how we can move forward with our git forge evaluation efforts this year.

There’s a thread on discourse where Fedorans visiting FOSDEM this year are sharing their plans in order to meet and connect with others attending the event too!

Another thread has been started to talk about creating and introducing a Flock location policy for DEI too, which is such an important conversation to have.

You can also weigh in on the Can We Have a Fedora OEM Installer discussion, and there’s a good conversation happening in the Criteria for making Fedora Atomic the default desktop experience thread too if you want to get involved in that conversation as well.

Help Wanted

That’s all from me this week folks, its good to be back! I look forward to experiencing my first FOSDEM this year next week, and more importantly, meeting more of the fedora community members in person too. Have a great week everyone, and as always – don’t hesitate to reach out 🙂

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ops-architect-weekly-3/

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Justin W. Flory @[email protected] · 2023-11-28 · 08:00 UTC

Co-authored by benny Vasquez and Justin W. Flory.

In just over two months, the Fedora Project returns to FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium from 3-4 February 2024 again with a stand, a bunch of friends, and our usual role as organizers of the (Linux) Distributions Developer Room (dev room).

CFP is open until 5 December 2023!

The Distributions dev room opened its CFP a couple of weeks ago. We have seen great ideas come in! If you would like to join us, submit your talk for inclusion no later than December 5th. If you’re looking for ideas, we’ve got a list of potential topics on our official CFP announcement, and you can always look at previous years for more ideas.

Important dates for FOSDEM 2024

CFP closes: Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Deadline for accepted speakers to confirm: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Final schedule announcement: Friday, 15 December 2023

What is a FOSDEM Developer Room?

Developer rooms are assigned to self-organizing groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc.
From the FOSDEM website

The general idea is that a group of people get together to organize a mini-event inside the FOSDEM umbrella. The groups of folks submit a proposal to the FOSDEM organizers, and then recruit content and build a schedule for the room. Everyone involved is likely to be a volunteer, but the content is always extremely beneficial, and presented by leaders and experts on their topics.

How to attend

FOSDEM is a free conference that requires no registration of any kind. You just show up on the days of the event, and then attend the talks that you want to attend. It is an extremely popular event, so the talks are also recorded and posted later on the FOSDEM website.

When the schedule is live, you’ll be able to find it on the FOSDEM website, so keep an eye out for updates!

Help out as a volunteer

Will you be at FOSDEM next year from 3-4 February 2024? The Distributions dev room welcomes volunteers to help with various day-of logistics for running the dev room. If you are interested in helping out with the Distributions dev room, send an introduction email to the FOSDEM distributions-devroom mailing list.

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cfp-fosdem-2024-distributions-dev-room/

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