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Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller writes that he will soon be hanging up the FPL hat:

Stay tuned for a job posting from Red Hat, and details about all that. I'm hoping we can hire someone awesome early in 2025, and make the official handover on the release of auspiciously-numbered Fedora Linux 42.

I'm not going to leave Fedora, though. As I said above, although it might not always feel like it from the outside, Red Hat support for Fedora is stronger than ever, and I plan on helping that grow even more. I'm stepping into a full-time management role in the Community Linux Engineering organization, so Fedora will still be part of my day job, just in a different way.

This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to expect since systemd changed the game of free init systems and service managers alike. It's also a major milestone for Guix, which has been relying on the Shepherd from a time when doing so counted as dogfooding.

When the Fedora Engineering Steering Council (FESCo) is up for election, the project posts interviews of the candidates in order to help Fedora contributors make an informed choice. This year, the candidates are Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Tomáš Hrčka, Josh Stone, David Cantrell, Fabio Alessandro Locati, and Kevin Fenzi. All of them except for Locati are current members of the steering council. Voting is open until December 20.

In 2019, the Python community had a lengthy discussion about changing the rules (that some find counterintuitive) on using break, continue, or return statements in finally blocks. These are all ways of jumping out of a finally block, which can interrupt the handling of a raised exception. At the time, the Python developers chose not to change things, because the consensus was that the existing behavior was not a problem. Now, after a report put together by Irit Katriel, the project is once again considering changing the language.