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

Week: 25 – 29 May 2026

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

• OpenID Connect Enrollment: Hatlas Keycloak
• Mailing list archive seems to not update its search index
• Reinstall nameservers with RHEL10
• Improvements on smtp-auth-cc-rdu01.fedoraproject.org
• W2FM GitHub hook takeover [Followup] [Resolved]
• Make a refreshed deployment to the production environment [Commit]
• Some packages tagged with “fXX-updates-testing” [Followup A] [Followup B] [Resolved]
• Refreshed MDAPI’s deployment in staging and production environments
• Include deployment controls for Fedora Infrastructure [Followup] [Addressed]  [Merged]
• Compute rarities on the database layer [Triaged] [Followup A]  [Followup B] [Followup C]
• Implement a Clear button in the search bar to improve user experience [Approved]
• Implement pagination on the search page for users and badges from endpoints [Closed]
• Update current README.md file to contain discussed local setup [Closed]
• Fix: check user auth before fetching API [Approved] [Closed]
• Readme.md file update [Followup]
• Nagios is down to 60 items 😉

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 Infrastructure and CentOS Stream.
CentOS ticket tracker
CentOS Stream ticket tracker

• Greg continues to hold the fort as well as possible
• Another mirror request in progress
• Stream mirror sync seems to have caught up from its slowness last week
• SELinux issue in the Stream GitLab runners, debugged and restored with S.Gallagher
• Many Let’s Encrypt SSL certs due for renewal, currently in progress

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

• Fedora 42 will reach END OF LIFE on Wednesday, May 27th, 2026

RISC-V

This is the summary of the work done regarding the RISC-V architecture in Fedora.

• F44 rebuild: 99% of it is done
  • Blocker now unblocked: A large Qt 6.11 update (500+ packages) is in progress, which was previously blocked by qt-webengine. The necessary patches have been rebased, so the update can now proceed.
  • Cloud and server images are unblocked. Still need to do the kiwi-descriptions; in progress
• Currently short on time due to various resource constraints.
• Hardware
  • An additional P550 board has been added to the Fedora RISC-V build farm
  • Sorting out the process to procure two K3 units for Fedora RISC-V Koji builders.
• Migrating from Forge: plans to migrate the secondary dist-git overlay to forge.fp.o/riscv
• SpacemiT K3 benchmarks continued.  We have some good incremental improvements

QE

This team is taking care of quality of Fedora. Maintaining CI, organizing test days
and keeping an eye on overall quality of Fedora releases.

• More and better docs, continued tech debt repayment and app improvements, openQA ELN coverage enhancement and start on cycle upgrades, also see items in AI section above
• We’ve created a Guides & How-Tos category for Fedora Quality Docs, and try to populate it with useful articles. More will come.
• Issuebot PR posted for review 
• Tech debt work: improvements to blockerbugs health check and its usage, modernization and fixes for Issuebot
• openQA stuff: extended ELN coverage, upgraded staging to Fedora 44, updated os-autoinst to latest upstream on staging, discovered a weird bug that needs working out before going to prod

Forgejo

This team is working on introduction of https://forge.fedoraproject.org to Fedora
and migration of repositories from pagure.io.

• Move Fedora Badges static assets from Pagure to Forgejo [Followup]
• Incorrect commit display for some PRs [Followup
• Zabbix template for Forgejo Runner VM deployed on staging (wip)
• Forge runners: lightweight image option added: tested and provided to ci org 
• Forge 15.0.1 on production, 15.0.2 on Staging

EPEL

This team is working on keeping Epel running and helping package things.

• Completed the EPEL 10.1 retirement and switched EPEL 10.2 from CentOS to RHEL content https://forge.fedoraproject.org/epel/releng/issues/101

UX

This team is working on improving User experience. Providing artwork, user experience,
usability, and general design services to the Fedora project

• Focusing on Flock deliverables

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

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

Week: 11 – 15 May 2026

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

• W2FM GitHub hook takeover [Followup]
• chore(deps): update Fedora Minimal docker tags [Commit A] [Commit B]
• Make a refreshed deployment to the production environment [Commit]
• mdapi: fix image trigger annote order on deploy metadata [Commit]
• Add Red Hat Summit 2026 badge artwork [Merged] [Followup] [Badge] [Auth]
• Deal with s390x outage
• Cleaning script for communishift
• Critical error in IPA from ipa-healthcheck
• Request for resources – large sized aws arm64 VM with public IP for Forge runners
• Revert CVE-2026-31431 (“copy fail”) mitigations when EL 9 kernel is updated
• Add jgroman to sysadmin-qa and hook sysadmin-qa up to appropriate things
• Move OpenShift apps from deploymentconfig to deployment

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 Infrastructure and CentOS Stream.
CentOS ticket tracker
CentOS Stream ticket tracker

• Remove tilda on isa riscv build dist
• Renew some gitlab tokens
• Investigate potential hardware issue on sponsored server
• Reinstall failed server
• virtX-ovirt-46 tags
• copy-fail fix
• mirror.tzulo.com add to mirrorlist
• all s390 builders for Stream are unreachable (blocking all rpm build tasks)
• Add GenericCloud images tests on testing.stream.centos.org

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

• Fedora Release Engineering focused this week on Fedora 44 post-release stabilization, compose tooling improvements, and ongoing Forgejo migration work. The team also continued Fedora 45 coordination, infrastructure cleanup, and automation enhancements to improve operational reliability and reduce technical debt.
• Completed Fedora 44 post-release cleanup and stabilization work
• Reworked failed compose cleanup tooling to support Forgejo and remove remaining Pagure dependencies
• Managed and updated the current RelEng sprint board
• Continued Fedora 45 tracking and coordination work
• Progressed ongoing migration and infrastructure modernization tasks
• Assisted with maintainer processing and cleanup workflows
• Investigated compose metadata handling improvements for Beta/RC/Final differentiation
• Coordinated on ELN and Rawhide related operational issues

RISC-V

This is the summary of the work done regarding the RISC-V architecture in Fedora.

• F44 rebuild: it’s almost done—less than 2K packages remaining (big credit to David here).  Transition from CMake 3 to 4 and a couple of other solvable issues are causing some delays, but things are moving.
• Work with a developer at a hardware vendor (SpacemiT) to get a 3-week access to RVA23 machine.
  • Study the hardware, documentation
  • Jason from Red Hat is looking to integrate K3 kernel support into Fedora “omni” kernels.
• Started doing benchmarks of heavy-duty packages such as kernel, LLVM, glibc, QEMU and more.  Details in this ticking ticket.
  • We’ll share these comparative at Flock RISC-V update
  • Explore a potential demo at Flock, logistics permitting
• Debugged and found the root cause of a kernel build failure on RVA23 hardware
• Work with Matthew to get two units of K3 hardware to be shipped for David (Meta) and Jason (Red Hat)  for Fedora Koji builders 
• Rebased and rebuilt OpenJDK 26 for F43 with CVE fixes. 
• Analyzed the root-cause of  an ‘io_uring’ error in ‘nbdkit’ with Rich and Andrea.

QE

This team is taking care of quality of Fedora. Maintaining CI, organizing test days
and keeping an eye on overall quality of Fedora releases.

• dirtyfrag update scramble, Podman test days, ongoing “quiet time” work: openQA test dev, ELN collaboration and test enhancement, tech debt repayment
• Another fun branded kernel CVE scramble – got dirtyfrag updates tested and released within hours after submission
• Uncovered a regression in GNOME Software potentially causing users (under certain conditions) to see a lower frequency of system updates delivery/notification. Fixed the regression together with the developer.
• Podman 6.0 test days are happening this week: Test_Day:2026-05-11_Podman_6.0
• openQA test dev: gnome-initial-setup test merged and in production, Silverblue installer build test ported to image-builder to match prod, ongoing smaller fixes/improvements
• ELN work: collaborating with yselkowitz and jforbes to try and get independent gating of ELN kernel updates, ongoing work on making rmdepcheck work correctly on ELN, adapted openQA tests to changes in ELN release packages, reported several notable bugs
• Tech debt: modernization work on testdays-web and stats tools, cleaned up membership of several significant groups

Forgejo

This team is working on introduction of https://forge.fedoraproject.org to Fedora
and migration of repositories from pagure.io.

• Incorrect commit display for some PRs [Triaged] [Followup A] [Followup B]
• Ensure moving all commits in a pull request [Commit]  [Followup]
• [v15.0/forgejo] [pagure] ensure moving all commits in a pull request [Reviewed]
• Fedora-infra tenant created on the new konflux cluster
• Forge and Distgit Applications and Components onboarding to the Konflux tenant
• Dirtyfrag exploit mitigated on all runnerhost VMs
• Forge Staging updated to v15.0.1
• [docs] We finally got a separate “archive” org so we’ll get it set up and start migrating the about 40 ancient repos there
• Zabbix Proxy running inside openshift now has a playbook and role to deploy and configure.

EPEL

This team is working on keeping Epel running and helping package things.

• Carl is attending RH Summit and supporting the community booths
• Working on making CentOS 10 available in the lxd image catalog.

UX

This team is working on improving User experience. Providing artwork, user experience,
usability, and general design services to the Fedora project

• Madeline and Emma alternating PTO for whole month
• Flock branding is top priority for the next two sprints.

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

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