Today's an important day on the Fedora 33 schedule[1], with several significant cut-offs. First of all, today is the Bodhi activation point [2]. That means that from now on all Fedora 33 packages must be submitted to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements[3] before they will be marked as 'stable' and moved to the fedora repository.
Today is also the Beta freeze[4]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[5][6] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Beta composes. Other builds will remain in updates-testing until the Beta release is approved, at which point the Beta freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual until the Final freeze.
Today is also the '100% code complete deadline' Change Checkpoint[5], meaning that Fedora 33 Changes must now be code complete, meaning all the code required to enable the new change is finished. The level of code completeness is reflected as tracker bug state ON_QA. The change does not have to be fully tested by this deadline'.
Finally, today is also the Software String freeze[7], which means that strings marked for translation in Fedora-translated projects should not now be changed for Fedora 33.
Tomas Hrcka
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