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Important Update: Fedora Linux 43 Election Schedule Extended

TL;DNR: The Fedora Linux 43 Election schedule has been extended. Voting will now take place from 15 December 2025 through 7 January 2026.

Due to unforeseen delays in the interview coordination process, we are adjusting the election timeline. To ensure all candidates have ample opportunity to present their platforms and the community has sufficient time to vote, the election period will now extend through the year-end holidays.

Please mark your calendars with the following new critical dates:

📅 New Election Schedule

  • Interview Submission Deadline (Extended): Now through Friday, 12 December 2025 at 23:59 UTC (Candidates: Please ensure your responses are submitted by this time.)
  • Voting Setup & Interview Publishing: Monday, 15 December 2025 (Voter guides and interviews will be published to the community on this date.)
  • Voting Period Opens: Monday, 15 December 2025
  • Voting Period Closes: Wednesday, 7 January 2026 at 23:59 UTC
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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with MĂĄirĂ­n Duffy (duffy/mizmo)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with MĂĄirĂ­n Duffy

  • FAS ID: duffy
  • Matrix Rooms: My long-term home has been Fedora Design, but I also hang out in Podman, Fedora Marketing, and Fedora AI/ML.
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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Timothée Ravier (siosm/travier)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with Timothée Ravier

  • FAS ID: siosm
  • Matrix Rooms: Fedora Atomic Desktops, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora bootc, Fedora KDE, Fedora Kinoite, Fedora Silverblue
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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Daniel Mellado (dmellado)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with Daniel Mellado

  • FAS ID: dmellado
  • Matrix Rooms: #ebpf, #fedora-devel, #rust, #fedora-releng, and a lot of #fedora-* 😉
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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Kevin Fenzi (kevin/nirik)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with Kevin Fenzi

  • FAS ID: kevin
  • Matrix Rooms: I’m probibly most active in the following rooms. I’m available and answer notifications and watch many other channels as well, but those 3 are the most active for me:
    • noc -> day to day infra stuff, handling alerts, talking with other infra folks
    • admin -> answering questions, helping fix issues, some team discussions
    • releng -> release engineering team discussions, answering questions, handling issues, etc.
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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Fabio Alessandro Locati (fale)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with Fabio Alessandro Locati

  • FAS ID: fale
  • Matrix Rooms: I can be easily found in #atomic-desktops:fedoraproject.org, #bootc:fedoraproject.org, #coreos:fedoraproject.org, #devel:fedoraproject.org, #epel:fedoraproject.org, #event-devconf-cz:fedoraproject.org, #fedora:fedoraproject.org, #fedora-arm:matrix.org, #fedora-forgejo:fedoraproject.org, #fosdem:fedoraproject.org, #flock:fedoraproject.org, #golang:fedoraproject.org, #iot:fedoraproject.org, #meeting:fedoraproject.org, #meeting-1:fedoraproject.org, #mobility:fedoraproject.org, #python:fedoraproject.org, #rust:fedoraproject.org, #silverblue:fedoraproject.org, #sway:fedoraproject.org, #websites:fedoraproject.org
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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Dave Cantrell (dcantrell)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with Dave Cantrell

  • FAS ID: dcantrell
  • Matrix Rooms: Looking right now it appears Fedora Council, FRCL, Introductions, Announcements, Fedora Meeting, and Fedora Meeting 1. I tend to go to rooms that people ask me to join. I also use it a lot for DMs and people find me that way. For me primarily I rely on Matrix for our online meetings and DMs with people. Email continues to be the most reliable way to reach me and have a conversation.
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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

  • FAS ID: zbyszek
  • Matrix Rooms: #devel:fedoraproject.org, #reproducible-builds:fedora.im, #jenkins-coreos:fedoraproject.org, #coreos:fedoraproject.org, #quality:fedoraproject.org
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Community Update – Week 49

This is a report created by CLE Team, which is a team containing community members working in various Fedora groups for example Infratructure, Release Engineering, Quality etc. This team is also moving forward some initiatives inside Fedora project.

Week: December 1 – December 5 2025

Fedora Infrastructure

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora Infrastructure.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora infrastructure.
Ticket tracker

  • Pagure.io migration happened earlier in the week, expected disruption during that (https://status.fedoraproject.org for details)
  • RDU2-CC -> RDU3 DC move next week
  • OpenID finally has a date to be retired – we have a separate OpenID instance of Ipsilon that serves a warning (ticket)
  • Weblate legal issues raised by the community to the Council
  • Survived Thanksgiving without major fires 🙂
  • Ongoing work on the Keycloak migration

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding CentOS Infrastructure and CentOS Stream Infrastructure.
It’s responsible for services running in CentOS Infratrusture and CentOS Stream.
CentOS ticket tracker
CentOS Stream ticket tracker

Release Engineering

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora releases.
It’s responsible for releases, retirement process of packages and package builds.
Ticket tracker

RISC-V

  • (Things are chugging along.)
  • F43 rebuild is still ongoing.  The diff with primary arch is now about ~1K packages.  Still ironing out some rough edges.  (A bug with “debugedit” is affecting a number of packages.)
  • Jason Montleon published some board-specific F43  kernels
  • We’re working on putting together the RISC-V devroom at FOSDEM.

Forgejo

Updates of the team responsible for Fedora Forge deployment and customization.
Ticket tracker

  • Handled empty dates in Pagure milestone migration in the Forgejo upstream [Issue] [PR]
  • Initial preparation work being carried out to deploy the Forgejo “dist-git” instance – konflux pipelines for distgit are ready, with images with stable fedora available on quay. 
  • 5+ new teams have organizations on Forge now. 
  • Forgejo runners can be scoped to global/organization/individual on staging.
  • [Docs] Starting to migrate select repositories, first one to be the Release Notes

QE

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #admin:fedoraproject.org channel on matrix.

Test Day:2025-12-02 FreeIPA-WebUI Test Day

FreeIPA Web UI Test Week

The FreeIPA WebUI became new interface for freeipa

How to Participate during testday

  1. Test the WebUI – Follow the installation instructions on the Test Day wiki page
  2. Explore and experiment – Try different features and workflows
  3. Share your thoughts here – Post your comments, ideas, and UX findings in this discussion
  4. File bugs – If you encounter actual bugs, please file them in the upstream bug tracker

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