I read about this on Phoronix ( https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-36-May-10-Target ).

The gist of the article is that there are continuing blockers to a full release. Another check will be made on 5 May, and if necessary the full release will be pushed back beyond 10 May.

I’ve looked at the list of blockers ( see https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/36/final/buglist ), and there are only three I would consider high priority enough to block a full release; gnome-terminal, selinux-policy and wpa_supplicant. A forth blocker with NetworkManager-strongswan has to do with being unable to load the VPN editor for strongswan. Since I don’t use VPNs myself it’s of no concern to me, but it may be for others who are paranoid and want to run their traffic across a trusted VPN.

The other blockers are about Gnome photos. I couldn’t care less about Gnome photos. Even when it’s not buggy there are other, better alternatives. If it were my call to make I’d say fix the important networking/infrastructure bugs and ship a fix for Gnome photos on an update.

A question that immediately comes to my mind is why this bubbled up five days after it was written on Phoronix in search results on both Google and Duck Duck Go? None of the major Fedora sites such as Fedora Magazine and Get Fedora have made any mention of this, and still don’t. I didn’t catch it on Phoronix on 29 April because there is so much that’s published and I only visit about once a week, and thus it slipped by. This is yet another example of how search is essentially useless.

I’m still planning to switch to Fedora, but I may go ahead and switch to Fedora 35 and then upgrade to Fedora 36 later when it’s finally out. Fedora 35 already has all the current versions of the tools I use, including the latest kernel. And no brltty.